E64: Practicing These Principles in All Our Affairs. Wait...All of Them?

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

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Step 12 says, having had a spiritual awaking as a result of these steps, we carried the message to the alcoholic still suffering and practice these principles in all of our affairs. Wait, I thought this was about stopping drinking? So I have to use these principles in my life outside of drinking? I'm not sure I signed up for that. What we've learned through the steps is our daily living. Drinking was the solution to the root cause. Applying the princ...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:02.0	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.9	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.4	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day, and we overcame those struggles.
0:17.4	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:21.3	You're not alone.
0:22.3	This is the sober friends podcast.
0:25.2	All of our affairs?
0:27.9	Even outside of an AA meeting, we've got to do these principles all the time.
0:36.5	I don't know if I signed up for that.
0:38.6	Hey, John and Steve, what's going on?
0:40.5	Hey, Matt.
0:41.3	How are you doing tonight?
0:42.6	I am doing good.
0:44.4	Thinking about an amends I had to make to my wife tonight because I was grumpy.
0:51.9	So she goes to the store and she buys stuff that, well, she went with my daughter,
0:57.7	the two impulse people, and they were hungry and they came home with all types of strange things,
1:02.4	including a little tray of meatballs. And sometimes I start to think that she brings home this food
1:08.7	because she knows I can cook this stuff.
1:13.4	I'll just buy whatever looks good. Matt will figure it out. He's a good cook. And sometimes
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