Alcoholic Atheists Anonymous: The 12 Steps Without God

A Secular Framework for Recovery, Honesty, and Sobriety Without Faith

De: Southerland

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

For nearly a century, Alcoholics Anonymous has dominated the landscape of recovery, shaping how addiction is understood and how sobriety is pursued. But what if you don’t believe in God? What if appeals to “a higher power” only deepen your resistance rather than strengthen your resolve? Alcoholic Atheists Anonymous: The 12 Steps Without God is a blunt, practical alternative for those who want sobriety without metaphysics.

This book dismantles the myth that faith is required for recovery. It rewrites the twelve steps in secular language—no prayers, no surrender to divine authority, no spiritual awakenings. Instead, it grounds each step in honesty, accountability, discipline, and community. The focus is not salvation but survival, not divine intervention but human responsibility.

Step by step, readers are guided through Facing Reality, Honest Accounting, Making Repairs, Daily Balance, and the other essential practices that sustain sobriety. Each chapter strips away the religious wrapping and exposes the mechanics of change: identifying patterns, confronting denial, repairing harm, and building meaning without metaphysics. Alongside this reworking of the steps, the book explores the neuroscience of addiction, critiques of traditional AA, the rise of secular recovery movements, and practical tools for relapse prevention.

This is not theory. It is a manual for living sober without faith. Whether you are an atheist, agnostic, skeptic, or simply someone who cannot stomach the God-language of AA, this book offers a framework that works. It is recovery without prayer, sobriety without creed, honesty without compromise.

Sobriety is not a miracle. It is a practice. And it is possible for everyone, believer or not.