E40: Attraction Rather Than Promotion

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

4.3 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail 12 Step groups have a tradition around their public relations policy, which is attraction rather than promotion. But what does that exactly mean? John I steps in to have a discussion of this topic. Does it mean you never talk about AA or other 12 step programs, even in front of someone clearly sick and suffering? Should you never post about the program on social media? Does this podcast violate this principle? Or is there more nuance to this?&nb...

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Alone or Recovery podcast.
0:06.7	My name is Matt Jay, and on this show, we're here to share our experience, strength,
0:11.6	and hope recovering from addiction.
0:14.0	Not only can you contact the show at not aloneorcovery.com.
0:18.3	I'm also regularly posting articles and blogs up there. Heck, you want to reach out to me.
0:25.6	You got an idea for a blog. You want to do some writing. Reach out. Notalonerecovery.com. The email is
0:31.1	there. Social media links are there. And we don't speak for any 12-step group, but we do try to remain
0:36.6	anonymous. No Steve C, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:40.0	No Steve C, but definitely John I.
0:42.9	Steve is on a big bird going out to California.
0:45.9	Steve is in California on the beach.
0:46.8	Good for you. I got a, yeah, I got a text from him this morning with a picture showing the Pacific Ocean and overcast, you know, and we've all, you know,
0:58.5	we've all heard the song, it never rains in Southern California.
1:02.7	Well, it does.
1:03.6	I live there for six years.
1:05.2	It does.
1:06.5	But typically, you know, you have the May gray or the doom and gloom where it's just overcast and cloudy all the time.
1:15.7	But this time of year, you have the late night, early morning, low clouds and fog.
1:20.5	So when he got up this morning, it was sucked right into the coast.
1:23.7	And I told him, don't worry about it.
1:25.1	By 10.30, it will be all burned off.
1:26.8	And he said, 1027, he looked at his watch and it was burning off.
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