Al-Anon: Donna

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🗓️ 9 March 2024

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Donna is telling some of her Al-Anon story at the 14th Annual Fellowship of the Spirit Conference held in Queens New York in 2013. NSFW If you are in the PNW toward the end of July I just added a Young Peoples Conference (WSCYPAA VII) taking place in Tacoma WA. If you have never been to a Young Peoples event (your age does not matter) the energy and passion of the participants never fails to impress. I spoke to someone involved in it last night and based on how enthusiastic he was this will be no exception. Details: https://scast.us/wscypaa7 If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2500+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening,
0:15.0	please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	sobercast.com, look for the donate link
0:20.0	and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.4	Hi, I'm Donna.
0:28.3	I am a member of Al-Anon and I'm also an alcoholic.
0:32.1	I go. There are, number one, I didn't think that I was an Al-Anon.
0:40.0	I had been in AA since 2000 and there's a woman here that I want to thank for taking me through the work when I first came into AA, that's Loretta, and her husband, Sydney.
0:55.0	And they were able to let me see the problem about my alcoholism and the fact that I was
1:01.6	powerless over alcohol.
1:04.0	I had always had the gift of willingness.
1:08.0	I was willing to go to any length.
1:10.0	I remember I was sitting in a treatment facility
1:12.0	and on my weekend passes I was going up to a big book workshop in Harlem that they were facilitating and I understood my problem with alcohol and they guided me to my relationship with God. And I had been in
1:29.7	NAA and I actually was facilitating a few workshops of my own and working with others.
1:37.0	In my seventh year of AA, the unmanageability had come back and it was the kind of unmanageability that Chris S had mentioned.
1:49.1	It was a lot of fear, it was a lot of anxiety, it was a lot of anger. It was a lot of depression. I had got into a relationship with a man who I thought was a love of my life.
2:00.0	I still to this day do love this man, but I was very delusional.
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