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Sober Friends

E26: Step 12

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

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail We conclude our pass through the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous with Step 12: Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Step 12 is is a very broad step and can be looked to as the "Sponsorship Step," but it's so much more than that. John I and Steve C join the show to tell us so much more. Support the show 📫 Get more honest conversa...

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0:00.0

Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a recovery podcast.

0:07.5

My name is Matt Jay and on this show, here to share our experience, strength and hope recovering from addiction.

0:14.4

You can contact the show via our website, Not Alone Recovery.com.

0:18.6

Tons of good recovery links, places to listen to the show, email, all that good stuff.

0:25.2

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

0:30.5

And just a special message that if you're new and you're filling up your Tupperware with gasoline,

0:38.3

this is not the show for you.

0:41.3

Go back to step one and stay there.

0:47.5

You know, if you guys are going to laugh, you got to hit, take the mute button off.

0:52.1

You're leaving me hanging here.

0:54.4

The one that I like is the plastic bag one, if you saw that.

0:57.5

Literally a shopping bag.

0:58.9

Yeah.

0:59.5

That she filled up and she picked it up.

1:01.7

And, of course, it's leaking out the bottom.

1:04.5

Yeah.

1:04.9

It's just, I don't know.

1:06.6

I told my wife.

1:08.7

I go, I talked to my wife.

1:10.6

I go, how many shopping bags do we have left over?

1:13.2

She goes, why?

1:13.6

I go, I was just going to go fill them up with gasoline.

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