Al-Anon: Sally Ann M from New Zealand (25 Years)

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today we have Sally Ann M from New Zealand celebrating 25 years as a recovered Al-Anon member, she is sharing on the topic of "Damn Your Old Meetings." She tells us why Lois W's words still resonate with her despite the many decades that have passed since Lois spoke them. This was recorded at the Rocket Recovery Speaker Meeting of AFG in May of 2023. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in Florida soon the Way of Life Conference is coming up June 10th at the Marriott Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens. Details: https://scast.us/wol 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 2200+ 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 SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.8	Sally Ann is my name and I am a grateful member of the World Wide Fellowship of Ballonon
0:34.6	Family Groups and I'm here to recover from the family disease of alcoholism and that's
0:42.0	my primary purpose.
0:44.2	So I called this damn-year-old meetings because the kind of person that I am, I love a bit
0:55.2	of history.
0:56.2	I love learning about how this fellowship started and how 12-step recovery started.
1:03.3	When I was new and I went to my very first meeting, I picked up the first book that was
1:10.2	attractive to me and it was Lois Remembers because I love a bit of a novel, a lot of
1:15.6	a bit of excitement and drama and I took it home and I read it covered a cover and I saw
1:20.8	myself on those pages.
1:22.6	I looked for the similarities and I looked for really how Lois' life was now manifesting
1:38.7	in my life and a lot of it was to do with thinking, with the compulsive thinking, with
1:44.0	the obsession with an alcoholic.
1:46.6	You know, my biggest qualification to be an Alan or Family Groups is that I love alcoholics.
1:51.4	I love alcoholics and once upon a time that caused me a lot of heartache and devastation.
2:01.0	And today I still love alcoholics and it doesn't cause me any of that anymore.
2:08.8	Do they irritate me, yes occasionally, is harm involved, yes occasionally.
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