Testimonios de Mujeres en AA

Testimonios de Mujeres en AA

How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This episode of *Grupo Centro Madrid* brings together the raw, honest voices of women in Alcoholics Anonymous who share exactly that. You’ll hear Marisol describe her first sober year as “the best of my life”, after years of feeling like a “woman totally dead in life”.

Her story sets the tone for an episode filled with spirituality, self‑knowledge and the ‘language of the heart’ that many say they’ve only found in AA. Several women talk about the shock of realising alcoholism runs in their families, and how their aunts or mothers never had access to AA.

One woman explains that this is what drives her to help create women’s groups, so that mothers with small children and women fearful of mixed meetings still have somewhere safe to go.

Others lay out the darker side of addiction without softening the edges: Gladys recounts the night alcohol took her to the point of almost killing her own daughter, then the relief of hearing for the first time that alcoholism is an illness, not proof she was “a mother degenerada”. Another speaker remembers sleeping in parks and trains, losing her children and her home, before AA helped her rebuild step by step. There’s also space for those right at the beginning.

Karina talks about arriving at a group only 24 hours sober and facing court deadlines to regain custody of her children, while Yami explains how she came in supporting a relative and slowly realised, “la que más necesitaba de Alcohólicos Anónimos era yo”. The style is informal, emotional and very real: stories of relapse, court orders, immigration, family violence and depression sit alongside tales of service, new friendships and quiet daily sobriety.

Anyone wondering if AA has room for women, or if it’s worth taking that first step, will find plenty here to think about – and perhaps a voice that sounds a lot like their own.