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Sober Friends

E23: Steps 6 and 7

Sober Friends

Matt J

12 Steps, Spirituality, Personal Journals, Mental Health, Sober, Recovery, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, Alcohol Free, Sober Curious, Alcoholics Anonymous, Dry January, Society & Culture, Sobriety

4.3722 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Steps 6 and 7 have the shortest write up in the big book. It does not make them any less important. These are two steps Matt J says he puts into his daily life most frequently. Steve C and John I join the program to wrap up Step 5 and talk about how to quickly get into being ready to let go of our defects of character and then asking our higher power to remove them. Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Step 7 - Hu...

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0:00.0

Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a Recovery podcast. My name is Matt Jay, and on this show, we're here to share our experience, strength and hope, recovering from addiction. You want to know more about the program, listen to the program, find places to hear it, head over to the website, not alone recovery.com.

0:23.7

Now, we don't speak for any 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.

0:29.1

And what we're doing here today, I'm sorry, I'd clear my throat.

0:35.6

It felt like I was closing up here.

0:37.3

What we're doing today is we're slowly going through those 12 steps.

0:42.3

So I have Steve C with me.

0:44.3

I have John A. I.

0:46.2

And we're going to recap last week, which was steps.

0:52.3

Oh, for crying out loud, I'm losing my train of thought tonight it's going to be one of

0:56.0

those shows four and five and then we're going to dive into six and seven which get such short

1:02.2

shriff in the big book but to me these are some of the places that i am most of the time gentlemen

1:09.4

how are you good good matt good how Matt. Good. How are you doing

1:13.0

tonight? I think I'm doing okay. Yeah, a beautiful day up here in the Northeast, huh? Today? It was

1:18.8

gorgeous. I have been slowly but surely hardening off my tomato and pepper plants early. Nice.

1:27.3

So when it comes time, those things can go right in and I can get plenty of time.

1:32.1

Yeah, I'm getting ready to plant some, some strings, vegetables, spinach,

1:38.3

get some herbs going and some lettuces and things.

1:41.3

I got these, and the new place I got these raised garden beds.

1:45.8

So I'm going to take advantage of them this year and, you know,

1:49.2

wait until next year to put something in.

1:51.6

But looking for some,

1:53.6

I've got to,

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