Big Book Story Author: Crossing the River of Denial

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Karen R has her story in the Big Book (4th ed. p328) under the title, Crossing the River of Denial, she had been sober 15 years a the time of this speak in 2006 at a Gratitude Banquet in Las Vegas Nevada. FYI... the sound goes a bit hollow a few min in, but goes back to normal fairly quickly. 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 2400+ 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 Soto Cast where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format.
0:13.0	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening,
0:15.2	please help us be self-supporting by visiting sobercast.com,
0:18.8	look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two
0:21.1	into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	I'm still an alcoholic and I'm still Karen.
0:29.8	And when I laugh, I laugh, thank you.
0:33.0	When last I left you, I was at my 830 Big Book Study.
0:37.0	And you know how we hear things in meetings that sometimes just really resonate?
0:42.0	And I heard something this morning that I actually stopped and wrote down.
0:46.0	And it was something that somebody else had shared,
0:50.0	because there's not a lot of original stuff other than our individual experiences in Alcoholics Anonymous.
0:56.2	You know, everything I know and most of what I say, I've heard it somewhere in a meeting, somewhere in the world from another alcoholic, because you teach me how to be.
1:07.0	You teach me what a sober woman looks like and sounds like, and for that I'm eternally
1:13.0	internally grateful.
1:15.0	So somebody said this morning that they found everything
1:18.8	they were ever looking for in Alcoholics Anonymous, everything they ever wanted in Alcoholics. for an alcoholic synonymous,
1:26.0	everything they ever wanted in Alcoholics Anonymous, and when they got here they didn't even know what they were looking for.
1:30.0	For some reason that just made my heart sing because that truly was my experience.
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