I do not go to AA currently, nor have I since I started officially becoming sober after millions of times of trying sobriety. Praise God for my sobriety. What do ya’ll do who do not go to AA? I follow some pages on instagram and so far that is my little community. Plus this app.
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Try The Phoenix group. It's way different than AA.
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I personally go to AA and therapy but I know some people use SMART recovery …. Although they’re not everywhere and even here in LA only a handful of locations
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There’s a great online speaker meeting every night on zoom. You don’t have to participate, just log in and listen to someone else share their story. It’s called great facts speaker meeting,
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I got to Celebrate Recovery
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I don’t do AA either, I’ve gone to meetings several time but feel it’s not me so I’m there too. I always try different avenues of recovery anyway because there are plenty out there to choose from so just keep browsing until you find something to stick with.
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Love TLC, the Luckiest Club, TLC on line. They saved my life after drinking for 30 years. Now 8 months sober and that is a miracle!
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Women for recovery (wfs. Org)
It's free. I wish there was a little more activity but I found a local group (that meets via zoom) and I look forward to that meeting every week.
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I don't think that I could "make it" without NA. What's not to like? It's easy, available to us all and FREE.
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SMART Recovery and Celebrate Recovery. Were it not for the approach that smart takes I think there is a strong likelihood that I would be dead or continue to relapse. The faith which is a big part of my life that Celebrate Recovery focuses on helps me to maintain this path.
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By the way Rachel what a great question!
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I tried AA. We were told without AA we’d 100% relapse. I just decided not to drink anymore instead of attending meetings and getting positive reinforcement from a group of strangers. And that’s what worked for me. Super nice people in AA though!! Just wasn’t for me
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Refuge recovery is Buddhist based meeting with meditation- cool stuff
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When I first got sober I went to a few meetings but then COVID hit. I’ve just made it a point to surround myself with a good support system and lean on those that I know are here to help me. I also enjoy finding new foods/sweets to try or a cool n/a drink so I get away from the boredom of just water. And each day I remind myself that the positives of being sober far outweigh anything to do with drinking. Hang in there!
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Most of the time they drink 
Give AA a try. It’s been around for 90 years for a reason.
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Sober Shedevils is an online women's sobriety group, also The Satanic Temple Sober Faction has a really good online sobriety meeting (not to mention they are an excellent resource for women's health).
My Grandfather got sober before there was any AA and as near as I can tell he probably did it with some kind of help such as church and or a friend. Maybe a doctor but probably that wouldn’t have been to easy because he was not living in town. There are people who do.
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That is a great question and in many other countries there are other ways people can choose.
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I just quit, then everyone quit me so I made a vital decision, I was a drunk and I was going to die, consuming more than 24 beers everyday for about 25 years. I got a job as a bar back to test my commitment to sobriety while my body got it’s brain and physical shape back to working my real job, tile setter, it was the funnest job, I never drank at bars. Never experienced bar life, cool little community. But everyone is different, no AA and I stayed for 5 months slinging beers and cleaning up after people figured I was good and 1 year later still sober setting tile again! Good luck it’s a beautiful world with two good eyes
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Is that Mount sopris in the background just wondering?