Secular, not anti-religious
AHA does not require religious belief, spiritual language, or disbelief. People from many backgrounds are welcome.
AHA Codependency Support Group
Practical Secular Recovery from Codependency
AHA is a peer-led support community for people seeking a practical, nonreligious approach to recovery from codependency.
We meet to share experience, listen, reflect, and support one another as we learn to treat ourselves well and build healthier relationships.
What is AHA?
A secular support group for practical recovery.
AHA is the Agnostic, Humanist, and Atheist Codependency Support Group. We are a secular, peer-led fellowship for people working to understand and change the patterns that have made their relationships and inner lives unmanageable.
Our meetings are based on shared experience, honest reflection, and mutual support. Participation is flexible, no one is required to adopt a label, and our nonreligious approach is not anti-religious.
A different kind of recovery space
Open-minded, practical, and community-oriented.
Peer-led and flexible
We are open-minded and trying to do something useful together. Members participate in the ways that support their recovery.
Shared experience, not hierarchy
Members share what has been true for them. No one is here to be an authority over anyone else’s recovery.
Support without fixing
We practice support that does not become advice-giving, rescuing, or control.
A place to turn inward
AHA encourages self-exploration, self-compassion, and learning to listen to our own internal guidance.
The AHA approach
Agency is something we practice.
The AHA Moment is realizing that we do not need permission to begin recovering in a way that works for us.
AHA’s practical steps are tools for self-exploration and recovery. We use them to help shift our focus from outward to inward, from guilt and shame toward self-love and self-compassion, and from waiting for others to change toward taking responsibility for our own recovery.
Read the practical 12 stepsWhat we practice
We practice self-acceptance and self-compassion, and encourage members to explore the sources of their codependency. Members are encouraged to consider what supports their own recovery.
How meetings work
Structured, respectful, and newcomer-friendly.
Online meetings
Meet from wherever you are. Meeting times are shown in your local time zone.
Listening counts
You are never required to speak. Listening is participation.
Optional sharing
Share when it helps you. Passing is always okay.
Confidential and anonymous
Members are asked to respect privacy and keep personal stories in the meeting.
No fixing or rescuing
Structured sharing avoids advice-giving, correcting, and taking over.
Readings and topics
Hosts may offer readings, writing prompts, or discussion topics.
Join the community
You don’t have to do this alone.
Join a meeting or connect with the community when you are ready. You do not need to identify a certain way to participate.