Honor every step forward
Gifts that celebrate recovery milestones and the courage it takes to keep growing
Featured Product: Hug Mugs
Why "Hug Mugs"? Because holding one feels like receiving encouragement when you need it most. Every sip reminds you that you're supported, you're capable, and you're not alone in this journey.
Gifts that honor the journey
Each milestone represents countless meetings attended, phone calls made, amends offered, and moments of choosing growth over comfort. It's proof that change is possible and that showing up, day after day, creates a life worth celebrating.
Five phrases, five principles of recovery
-
Knowing Happiness
True happiness isn't found—it's recognized. In recovery, we discover that happiness was never in the things we chased, but in the quiet moments of presence, gratitude, and connection we once overlooked. Knowing happiness means learning to see it where it already lives.
-
Practicing Love
Love in recovery isn't a feeling we wait for—it's a practice we commit to. Through the Steps, we learn to extend to ourselves and others the compassion, patience, and grace we once thought we didn't deserve.
-
Helping Others
We can't keep it unless we give it away. The lifeline that saved us only stays strong when we extend it to others. In recovery, helping others isn't charity—it's the foundation of our own survival and growth.
-
Being Willing
We don't have to be ready—we just have to be willing. Recovery doesn't demand perfection or complete understanding. It asks only for the willingness to try, to show up, to take the next right step — even when we can't see where it leads.
-
Letting Go
Recovery asks us to release what we cannot control—the past, the future, other people's choices, our own need to know how everything will unfold. In letting go, we find freedom. In surrender, we find peace.
What Makes Recovery Anniversaries Special
In 12-step communities, anniversaries are sacred celebrations. They mark not just survival, but genuine transformation—the kind that ripples outward, touching many other lives.
When someone celebrates a year, five years, or twenty years, they're sharing a message of hope with everyone who needs it: this is possible. You can do this too.
These milestones honor the work, the support, the stumbles, and the getting back up. They celebrate the person who walked through the door and the person they've become.
-
"I gave my sponsee the 'Being Willing' candle for her one-year. She texted me a photo of it on her meditation table every morning for a month."
—Ann, AA, 8 years
-
"I bought myself the 'Knowing Happiness' mug. Every morning it reminds me why I'm doing this."
—Jen, OA, 14 months
-
"I got the 'Helping Others' notebook for my sponsor as a thank you. She said in 10 years of sponsoring, no one had ever given her something so meaningful."
—Jill, Al-Anon, 4 years

