E98: Pete B's Emotional Journey From Addition to Finding Narcotics Anonymous Part 2 of 2

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

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Pete B joins us again this week for more of his emotional journey from drug addiction. Pete discusses how his friend George got him to come back again after some of the guys in the group said Pete would not last. George became his sponsor and was able to guide him on a path of 40 years of sobriety. In this episode, Pete discusses: Getting involved in NA serviceNA having to stop using the AA Literature, and getting involved in writing the first literatureSpe...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.9	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.1	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:22.6	You're not alone. This is the Sober Friends podcast. Last week on part one, we got to meet Pete B. He talked about
0:29.2	his story first of addiction to alcohol and then his descent into drug addiction. Pete had a
0:35.6	near-depth experience and he believes his friend Reed pulled him
0:38.8	from it and then he shared his despair of losing Reed just a few days later. I was not expecting
0:46.2	this, but Pete then talks about how he was part of the group that created the very first
0:50.7	narcotics anonymous literature in the early 80s. It's part two of our emotional
0:55.8	conversation with Pete B on the Sober Friends podcast. Well, this was 1980. This was like
1:02.2	February 1980. And I did have one relapse after that when I went, I went to tell my friends in
1:09.9	Connecticut the truth.
1:11.7	You know, I drove up there, and I was very excited about, you know, letting them know.
1:15.6	I was about three weeks into it at that point.
1:18.1	And I had every intention.
1:19.4	It was a four-hour drive from Buckscona, Pennsylvania to Connecticut,
1:22.5	and I had every intention to just laying it all out there for them.
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