Al-Anon: Topic - Learning to Live Surrounded By Crazy People (Complete) 3 hours

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🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

Father Tom, both in AA and an Al-Anon member leads this Al-Anon workshop called - Learning to Live Surrounded By Crazy People. Tom is a priest and came to Al-Anon via AA. This is a 4 part workshop and this is all four parts combined into one, I have no information about where or when this was conducted. Many people emailed me asking for the entire workshop, so here it is, if you listened to the previous episode you have heard the first 53 min, so skip forward or enjoy it again. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1400+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. #sobercast @sober_cast

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Soapcast where we provide AAC meetings and workshops and podcasts
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0:22.8	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.8	Have a great day.
0:24.8	Hello, my name is Tom and I'm in great need of 100,000 Alonon meetings.
0:37.4	And I think I don't have a specific date for when I got involved in Alonon.
0:43.5	There were a couple of encounters with Alonon.
0:47.8	The first, for the first while I was really just visiting and I was looking for some quick
0:53.9	solutions for some burning problems and then everything got much worse and I became
1:01.6	much more interested in Alonon because I wanted to survive.
1:06.6	And I remember being frantic and overwhelmed and angry and exhausted two of my favorite
1:12.9	flavors and someone gave me a cassette tape of an Alonon speaker from Texas named Blanche.
1:22.6	And Blanche did a lot of speaking for a lot of years and she died much too soon in the
1:26.8	year 2000.
1:28.4	Freak accident, she parked her car and ran over herself.
1:31.7	It was just gravity and bad luck and I miss her terribly.
1:37.2	But I was very crazy and you know, my experience is when I'm crazy enough, I'll listen to
1:46.6	different people.
1:50.7	I would prefer to listen to myself because I have so much to say.
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