ESH: Deonisis H (8 Years)

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Deonisis H from the Bronx New York tells his story in relation to the topic of “Experience, Strength & Hope” he had 8 years of sobriety at the time of this speak at the Broken Elevator Group in April of 2022. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are close to Bonita Springs Florida, the weekend of the 21st The Florida Conference for Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous is happening and its only $30.00. https://scast.us/fcypaa AA Event List: https://scast.us/events If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2200+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast, where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format. We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us
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0:20.7	to into our virtual basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day.
0:27.5	My name is Dionista and I'm a recovered alcoholic. God separated me from alcohol. On March 31st
0:36.5	of 2014, I celebrated eight years of sobriety very recently. I'm still celebrating that,
0:46.1	and I'm currently sitting in my office as an assistant principal of a high school here
0:56.5	in New York City. Ten years ago, I got fired as a school teacher, and whatever, ten years
1:10.0	later, God has fully restored me to default factory settings. When I say I'm a recovered
1:19.1	alcoholic and God has restored me, I don't take that lightly, and I'd like to tell you
1:25.2	exactly what that means. I also think it's really important to talk a little bit about the
1:33.2	steps, not a little bit, everything about the steps. I think it's really nice that you read
1:39.2	the steps. I'd like to share my experience, strength, and hope with the steps, and the
1:47.4	big book, the book, and I brought my little one with me today. The book tells us to share exactly
1:57.9	what happened to you, to express the spiritual feature freely, and it says to tell the newcomer,
2:07.4	and just the fellow, your fellow themselves, what your life was like, what happened, and what your
2:16.3	life is like now. I set off a little bit. I set off my talk just in there because I'm sitting in my
2:25.7	office. I'm sitting in my office, a successful man, a successful man of God, a man who no longer is
2:34.8	addicted to drugs and alcohol, a man who is no longer a prey to misery and depression, a man who
2:43.3	no longer is useless to others, a man who no longer is dominated by his emotions. I have been
2:56.8	set free, and I've been set free through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, which is the 12
3:04.5	steps, and which are found in the big book, in the book Alcoholics Anonymous, and I experienced
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