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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Book Study: Steps 5-9

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Mark H is from from Dallas Texas, he is leading a big book study covering steps 5-9, this was recorded in San Diego in 1994 at an unknown event. Mark was a very prolific circuit speaker for many years. This also feels like he is cut off mid sentence at the end, from what I understand this is all there was recorded, by the time we get there he has covered the vast majority of the subject. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added  a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look. 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 2300+ 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

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0:17.1

SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.

0:22.4

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

0:28.9

My name is Mark and I'm an alcoholic.

0:33.2

Let's turn to page 72 chapter 6 into action.

0:37.4

I want to stress this again because it's important.

0:43.2

Chapter 6 into action took me about five years to understand the end to action, the end

0:48.8

to action.

0:51.3

And there are seven steps in these pages, about 17 pages.

0:59.8

But the big book spent 53 pages on just looking at the first half of the first step.

1:05.0

I think it's real important that you all understand why it's done that way because I do all

1:11.6

the rest of the work in this process as a result of the truth that I see in the first

1:16.6

step.

1:18.6

And some of you that perhaps knew a little bit to this experience, I probably had the

1:24.2

realization that you've been around AA and maybe never understood the first step.

1:29.3

And your responsibility when you work with new people is to do what I've done here which

1:35.3

has shown you precisely, go through and take a hard look at that first step, use the book

1:40.6

turn statements and the questions, find your own answer deep down within based on your

1:44.7

experience to answer the question.

1:47.0

And my power is a rock on this, my life and management is like a power of my dilemma

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