Has anyone tried Smart Recovery. I have been sober 5 years and feel like I have outgrown AA. I need a peer group looking to live a full life and not just meetings. I need interaction not just people talking at me.
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That's interesting
I am loving womenforsobriety I didn't fall in love with the chat function, yet, but have found a lot of support and interaction in online meetings. I was looking for community and feel like I found it. I'm debating the luckiest club. That's how I found loosid.
The book Push Off From Here was very helpful (I found it through a book club at wfs)
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I have a friend who does very well with The Luckiest Club (TLC). There’s a cost, but she’s met some sober sisters and has been sober for 3 + years. If you don’t mind me asking…is it the AA program or the people in AA in your specific area?
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You've outgrown AA? Like, you're done helping new people in AA?
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The 12th step so you can talk at people? 
I am an active member in The Luckiest Club! TLC! I love it! Highly recommend. AA is great for many. I love parts of it but my people are at TLC. It is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Check out the Sober Faction Of The Satanic Temple.
It seems like groups in my area go out of their way to figure out how you've been a selfish a-hole most of the time when in fact you're just trying to practice self-care.
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I still help people, but I am trying to grow my life/relationships.
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I haven’t tried but have heard that Smart Recovery is a good alternative. I’m also interested in a peer group outside of the 12 steps. Best of luck!
Me too!
Look into smart recovery, on line classes, and Amazon sells a great recovery book of it..
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Smart Recovery, therapy (DBT helps me A TON and you can find lots of good DBT workbooks), refuge recovery, women for sobriety, Life Ring are all things I’ve tried. AA/NA is so widespread that I think it’s easier to find meetings for those. I still use AA/NA and go to a meeting if I feel like I need to but I like having lots of tools and options in case the AA route isn’t hitting it for me.
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Tracy
We should never outgrow AA. If you have truly taken the steps the way they were designed to be taken, you should never outgrow AA.
Step 12 states: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Whenever I go to meetings I'm always on the lookout for new people that have a desire to make changes in their lives. I take time out of my life to approach them and find out where they're at in their heads. I try to present them with what the 12 Steps of AA have done for me and ask them if they would like that same experience.
One thing I have seen through the years is many people getting into the program but they have no time to give it away. We have to give it away in order to keep it.
AA has changed a lot through the years. The program hasn't really changed but the people who come into the program have. Do you know that the early pioneers used to take people through the steps in four 1 hour sessions? That's right.
Today it is not uncommon for people to take months to go through the steps. It's a wonder how any of them stay sober during that time. The steps are designed to transform our Lives and remove the obsession to drink.
Also, if you're looking to live a full life, that's up to you. Sobriety is a key to freedom.
It gives us the freedom to make choices in our lives.
I don't know what your life is like or what you do with your life. I only know that mine is way different than it ever used to be when I was out there. But I'm the one who had to make the changes in my life.
You can go to school, take a martial arts class, take dancing classes, go up in the air, and earn your private pilot license, etc. It's a way to meet people outside of the program.
I didn't come to AA to lock myself up in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. I came here because I wanted to have freedom.
Although I do keep coming back in order to share my experience, strength, and hope, and remind me that the circus is still in town.
See if there’s a Phoenix sober gym community in your area. Also in Colorado there is a place called Advocates for Recovery. It’s a peer run all pathways to recovery place. I enjoy it a lot. Maybe they would know if there’s something similar where you are. 
I am going to join! Thank you for this info.
I attend AA just for the fellowship and sobriety. I also attend Smart Recovery meetings online. Both help me stay on track. It’s up to the individual to determine their own path to recovery.
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I like Alan Carr's quit drinking without willpower. Once becoming a non drinker we socialize however we want, do the things we like doing, and build relationships with folks we get along with.
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