I did need AA to get sober. Also as an atheist, it took me quite a few meetings to find a group that aligned with that. I honestly stayed away from getting help for a long time due to my concerns with the faith aspect.

My GOD was a Group Of Drunks in a meeting that I believed in and we helped each other stay sober.

Haven’t been to a meeting in five years. However I don’t think I would have gotten sober eight years ago without the community I found in AA.

Still very much an atheist. Probably more so now than before.

I am a therapist whose wife died a year ago, and I am crawling my way back into being a functional person again.

Is this in reference to ICE and Renee Good, because I think we know what that ICE agent decided? Create a problem so they can pull the trigger.

Also an engineer. I’m lucky that most of my meetings are before noon now after I moved to a different time zone. Though, that also means I have early meetings I have to be alert and ready for. Of course by the time I have a couple hours at the end of my work day to actually get something done I am mentally exhausted and need to start resting for my early morning meetings the next day.