ESH: Leslie A (9 Years)

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🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Leslie A got sober in 2009, she is from Atlanta Georgia and is telling her story at the Primary Purpose group in February of 2018. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look. 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 2300+ 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 and podcast
0:11.8	format.
0:12.8	We're an ad free podcast and if you enjoy listening please help us be self-supporting by visiting
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:24.4	My story is July 31st, 2009, a home group is the tradition, I have a sponsor, a sponsor
0:35.2	and I sponsor other women.
0:38.2	Okay, so no idea what I'm going to talk about tonight.
0:48.5	So I am a Native Atlanta and I grew up in Gwinnett County.
0:53.9	And it's funny when I first got sober I was very into therapy and my traumatic childhood
1:02.4	and my alcoholic family and the enmeshment that my mother and I had and all of that.
1:09.8	And it's funny after getting sober and being in the rooms and especially being a fifth
1:16.0	tradition, I have realized that really none of that mattered.
1:21.6	None of that really had much of an impact on me at all as an alcoholic or really any
1:25.6	of my issues.
1:26.6	My primary issue is my self-centeredness and how self-absorbed I am.
1:33.1	It's funny I have one child and I'm thinking about maybe having another child and my child
1:39.8	is four and I was thinking about the effect of it on him and is he going to be feeling
1:45.8	eclected and if he can be jealous and all of this and I remembered what it was like
1:51.3	when I was nine and we had my little brother and I don't think that it ever occurred to
1:57.2	me that anyone was paying any less attention to me.
2:01.5	We have home movies that I've been watching recently and literally there's so much of
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