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We've had a great response to the engraved date medallion which allows you to select a date like a sobriety date and personalize the coin through engraving.  (Which is included.)  It's done so well that due to popular demand we decided to create an option to have this coin made into a keychain.  Our manufacturer Wendells Inc engraves your sobriety or anniversary date on the trunk of the tree. The back says This Day My New Life Began.  They punch a hole in the top and put a nice gold tone ring on a short jump ring to make a...

We've had a great response to the engraved date medallion which allows you to select a date like a sobriety date and personalize the coin through engraving.  (Which is included.)  It's done so well we decided to create an option to have this coin made into a keychain.  Our manufacturer Wendells Inc engraves your sobriety or anniversary date on the trunk of the tree. The back says This Day My New Life Began.  Then they punch a hole in the top and put a nice gold tone ring on a short jump ring to make a nice sturdy keychain that...

Have you ever wondered how the custom of handing out Raised Center AA medallions began? The story behind this tradition is a story of innovation and strength of the recovery fellowship. One of the brightest highlights in Wendell’s history is our role in the area of support for the millions of people worldwide who have fought and are still ghting the battle of addiction. In early 1973, Bill Westman, a recovering alcoholic wanted to do something to fortify the will of the groups and individuals he spoke with. Bill designed and had Wendell’s produce a coin bearing the two large...

On the way to relapse we actually work backwards through the steps.Stop working with othersStop prayer and meditation ( or lose consistency)Stop looking at ourselves and taking inventory.  Not making amends when we're wrongMaybe we never finished step 8Certainly not adding an new harms to a listNot asking got to remove defects of characterNot willing to have them removedNot discussing resentments, fears, sex conduct harms to others with someone elseNot writing inventory on the aboveNot turning our will and live over to god (running the show)Now we're two steps from relapse.So the key as I see it is 1:  Recognize...

Long ago I never knew where AA Medallions came from.  I knew my club had them and I knew clubs bought them from their local Intergroup but failing that I had no idea where they came from.  One meeting our club ran out of the most common months and years of the traditional AA medallions.  Whomever restocked our club had not done so in awhile and it was embarrassing giving new people IOU's for AA chips. I decided to take the bull by the horns and stock the club my self but where to begin?  Google of course :)  I...