E41: Traditions 4 and 5

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

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail The 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous are the framework for how the groups work. According to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, "The '12 Traditions' of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers to that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, 'How can A.A. best function?' and, 'How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?'" As alcoholics, our person ambition and "good intentions," could turn this fellowship away from it's...

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Alone a recovery podcast.
0:06.8	My name is Matt Jay and on this show, we're here to share our experience, strength and hope recovering from addiction.
0:13.0	And you can contact the show, be part of the conversation by going to Not Alone Recovery.com.
0:19.0	You have all the links to social media,
0:22.3	especially Instagram, email.
0:24.8	I'm really a first email.
0:28.2	Somebody reached out about history of atheism in AA and loved hearing that.
0:30.1	I think I'm going to write a little bit about that
0:31.4	when I do some research.
0:32.5	We don't speak for any 12-step group.
0:35.4	We speak for ourselves.
0:36.5	We do try to remain anonymous.
0:37.9	Hey, guess who's back from California?
0:40.9	It's Steve.
0:42.7	Barely, barely back.
0:44.9	Barely is right.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:48.1	It was a nice trip and had some business and had some fun and met up with some old-time high school friends,
0:57.2	including one that I probably haven't seen in 40 years.
1:01.2	And we had a great little sort of late lunch dinner down in Laguna Beach.
1:06.0	And yeah, it was fun, except for when we went to come home, they said, you know fly tonight.
1:12.3	Mm-hmm.
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