Boozers in Bathrobes

Welcome Newcomer!

Boozers in Bathrobes welcomes you! We're glad you decided to join us. If you are new to Alcoholics Anonymous, or just coming back, we have some resources below to answers questions you may have about the fellowship and help you on your journey in sobriety.

Our group members are committed to helping other Alcoholics achieve sobriety.What that means to us is that those of us who are group members generally always have sponsors, are actively sponsoring others, and have worked all twelve steps of the alcoholics anonymous program. Many of our members are active in service within our fellowship and are willing to share their experience, strength, and hope - if requested.

A.A. Preamble:

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

Getting a Sponsor:

A sponsor is someone who can help guide you through the 12 steps of AA and share experience on how to live a sober life. Sponsorship assures the newcomer that there is at least one person who understands the situation fully and cares — one person to turn to without embarrassment when doubts, questions or problems linked to alcoholism arise. Sponsorship gives the newcomer an understanding, sympathetic friend when one is needed most. Sponsorship also provides the bridge enabling the new person to meet other alcoholics — in a home group and in other groups visited.

Select an A.A. member with whom you can feel comfortable, someone with whom you can talk freely and confidentially, and ask that person to be your sponsor.

Questions and Answers About Sponsorship

Connecting with Others:

Chat Box - members will post their contact information in the main chat box.

Private Chat - you may also privately direct-chat someone and ask if they would be willing to talk with you about recovery. We suggest women chat with women and men chat with men.

Parking Lot - After the meeting, stay and hang around in the parking lot and ask for phone numbers or email addresses of people willing to talk with you about your drinking.

Santa Fe 24 Hour AA Hotline - 505-982-8932

Online Intergroup 12th Step Committee:

Request an international Helpline phone number for your country.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Forward to the Second Edition:

As we discovered the principles by which the individual alcoholic could live, so we had to evolve principles by which the A.A. groups and A.A. as a whole could survive and function effectively.

It was thought that no alcoholic man or woman could be excluded from our Society; that our leaders might serve but not govern; that each group was to be autonomous and there was to be no professional class of therapy. There were to be no fees or dues; our expenses were to be met by our own voluntary contributions. There was to be the least possible organization, even in our service centers. Our public relations were to be based upon attraction rather than promotion. It was decided that all members ought to be anonymous at the level of press, radio, TV and films. And in no circumstances should we give endorsements, make alliances, or enter public controversies.

Welcome Newcomer!

A.A. Preamble:

Getting a Sponsor:

Pamphlets:

More Resources:

Find a Meeting:

Connecting with Others:

Online Intergroup 12th Step Committee:

Alcoholics Anonymous, Forward to the Second Edition: