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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Big Book Study: Preface and Forwards - Multiple Speakers

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Today we have a big book study of the Preface and Forwards of the book. This group has covered the big book multiple times so we have six different people presenting on the same topic over three separate meetings. I popped a quick click track between the meetings. Recording provided by, The Big Book Awakening, a Womens Big Book Study for all who identify as Women and/or LBTQ+. They meet in person every Saturday in St. Paul Minnesota at 8:30am. If you would like to join them please visit https://westendaa.org 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 1900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in podcast

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0:12.8

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0:22.4

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:27.6

Hi, I'm Mary DeAlcoholic and I'm low, I'm an alcoholic.

0:31.7

All right, thank you ladies for the opportunity to be of service and I'm especially grateful

0:39.7

for low to partner with me as I have witnessed low in my journey with her as her life has

0:47.7

just exploded by living this design for living.

0:53.7

And so she will be presenting with me and was kind enough to do this service work with

1:00.1

me.

1:01.5

So the point of the conversation today is to look at the preface and the first four forwards.

1:10.6

And at first blush, it's like, oh gosh, why would we want to do that?

1:17.5

And really the reason is, and the reason I take sponsors through this is, we'll just

1:25.2

get a little bit of basic history about what the big book is, how the big book was built

1:32.4

to give us kind of a landing pad on that.

1:36.4

And then interesting enough, the preface and the forwards give some context about why the

1:44.3

big book and low and I'll give a little bit of, you know, a few of the details behind

1:49.6

the context and what's, you know, really remarkable is even with the preface and the forwards

1:55.4

as short as they are and the context as it's written, we can spend hours on it.

2:01.5

It's remarkable, but we won't do that today.

2:05.0

We're just going to hit some of the highlights that we've collected through our conversations

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