#210 On Releasing Resentments (and how the rooms of AA are practicing, with sincerity, the teachings of yoga)

Asmita, the kleśas, and the path out of suffering through AA, Buddhism, and the Yoga Sutras

I joined the 12-step recovery rooms a few months before I hit six years sober. That was in January 2025.

For the first five years of my sobriety, I had been part of a community of women who were anti-AA: the newer, modern recovery spaces. And I still resonate with a lot of that world. But the truth is, I judged AA before I knew anything about it.

At the t…