E14: The Early History of AA - Roland Hazard and the Oxford Groups

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Matt J

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail John I joins me to talk about the early history of AA. But first, we celebrate another year of John's sobriety (his anniversary date is Feb 14, 1990). I this podcast, we focus on the unsung heroes of AA, like Rowland Hazard, who had the resources to consult with Dr. Carl Jung in an attempt to treat his alcoholism. Although Rowland Hazard never joined Alcoholics Anonymous, his connections to the Oxford Groups led him to Ebby Thatcher. This led Thatcher ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast.
0:07.0	We are here to share our experience, strength, and hope for the newcomer, for the old
0:14.5	comer, for the geezer, everybody in between, tough time during COVID.
0:18.9	If you want to contact this show, we have a website, not alone recovery.com, gives you all the social links, the email links, and where you can also access the website.
0:29.7	We are keeping the tradition solid.
0:32.4	We're not a secret society, but we try to keep ourselves anonymous.
0:36.6	I have John I with me.
0:39.4	John, what's going on?
0:41.0	Hey, Matt.
0:41.6	How are you doing?
0:42.5	Good.
0:43.1	So we're taping this on a Saturday.
0:45.3	This will come on on Tuesday morning.
0:47.2	So if you can hold it together a couple more hours, how long you got?
0:52.6	You remembered.
0:53.5	I remembered.
0:54.2	So if I hold it together, let's see, it's 12 minutes after 8 on February 13th.
1:02.5	So in three hours and 45 minutes, it's going to be my 31st year of sobriety.
1:11.0	That's pretty damn impressive.
1:15.0	I think you were a lot younger than me when he got sober, too.
1:17.5	So if I'm using the math, right?
1:21.5	I've been sober half my life because I'm 62.
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