Big Book Workshop: Led by Brian P a former bank robber (1.5 hours)

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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"Selfishness - self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles" from the top of page 62 in Chapter 5 is where this workshop picks up it is led by Brian P a former bank robber who spent 7 years in prison. This is a portion of a 3-day workshop held in May of 2013 as part of the New Freedom Big Book Retreat at the Skycroft Center, this is from part 5 of day 2. If you are interested in hearing the entire workshop please drop me an email. Email: [email protected] 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 1800+ 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
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.8	Self-appointed, selfishness, self-sonance, that we think is the root of the trouble.
0:31.5	On my page 62, German by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pitting.
0:38.4	We step on the toes of our bells and they retaliate.
0:41.0	Sometimes they hurt us seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that sometimes
0:44.9	in the past we made decisions based on self, which later places was this should be heard.
0:49.2	I always look, I always come back to go every position I was in when I felt like I heard
0:53.8	and see where I set the ball roll.
0:56.2	Every rarely can I see that I haven't really did do anything.
0:59.6	There are times, but it's very rare.
1:01.6	I mean, there were some things, but even at some of these things that I still can find
1:06.4	something where I set the ball roll and my something, it says, so our chose we think
1:10.6	are basically of our own making, and that's probably the best news that I got.
1:15.4	Because my problems are my own making, and then there's a solution, but if my problems
1:19.8	my mom, I'm screwed because my mom may never change, but she's 77, and since she's not
1:27.1	going to come to AA and work a spiritual program, she can't open, but I just don't see it
1:31.4	on the horizon.
1:32.4	So somewhere I'm going to meet my mom where she's at.
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