The mission of "Sober-Today.Org" is to help the alcoholic still suffering by carrying the message of what living sober is like, and where it can be found in the St. Louis area. We do this through links to Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, and links to books like The Big Book, The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, and more. In addition to the many other resources that can be found here, we also have listings for more than 750 AA meetings per week in the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area.

     We hope you find what your looking for here but if you need to talk to someone right now, don't be afraid to pick up the phone and call the number listed below. Someone there can talk to you who truly cares, with no strings attached.

Phone: (314) 647-3677

     The Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous provide guidelines for relationships between the twelve-step groups, members, other groups, the global fellowship, and society at large. Questions of finance, public relations, donations, and purpose are addressed in the Traditions. They were originally written by Bill Wilson after the founding of the first twelve-step group, Alcoholics Anonymous.
     Several of the tenets of what was to become AA's Twelve Traditions were first expressed in the Foreword to the First Edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939. By 1944 the number of AA groups had grown along with the number of letters being sent to the AA headquarters in New York asking how to handle disputes caused by issues like publicity, religion, and finances. By 1946 AA cofounder Bill Wilson had more clearly formulated the basic ideas for the Twelve Traditions directly from such correspondence with groups (via the group conscience method), setting guidelines on how groups and members should interact with each other, the public, and AA as a whole. The Traditions were first published in the April 1946 AA Grapevine under the title Twelve Points to Assure Our Future and were formally adopted at AA's First International Convention in 1950. Wilson's book on the subject, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, was published in April, 1953.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Tradition 1
  • Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. Unity.
• Tradition 2
  • For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience.
• Tradition 3
  • The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
• Tradition 4
  • Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
• Tradition 5
  • Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
• Tradition 6
  
  • An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
• Tradition 7
  • Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
• Tradition 8
  
  • Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
• Tradition 9
  
  • A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
• Tradition 10
  • Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
• Tradition 11
  
  • Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
• Tradition 12
  
  • Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.