ESH: Russell B from London England

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Russell B from London England tells his story and speaks about the steps at the Middle of the Bed meeting of the Bronx Big Book Group. Im not sure when this was recorded but he did celebrate 19 years sober earlier this month. NSFW NYE Alcathons: https://sobercast.com/online-meetings/alcathons-nye-2021 Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1700+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:29.8	My name is Rastel, I'm an alcoholic, thank you Pat for asking me to share it to me
0:40.8	in.
0:41.8	Thanks for your secretary commitment, thanks all of you that are joining this meeting
0:51.9	today from around the world and those of you in Dublin, the physical home of this
1:02.2	middle of the bed meeting, middle of the bed with a thousand people, what a lovely way
1:09.8	to spend a Monday evening, if you're in the exact middle of the bed with a thousand
1:16.7	people, that would probably be unhygienic and probably difficult to get out if you needed
1:20.5	to go to a laboratory, but given the middle of the bed in this instance is a reference
1:26.2	to a famous AA idiom stay in the middle of the bed, stay in the meetings I suppose, in
1:35.6	the midst of the steps, in the midst of the your relationship, your higher power and your
1:41.4	sponsor and your sponsors, I suppose that's a bit safer, I love the Irish people, I love
1:51.2	the program of alcoholics and on the list, so I'm pretty happy to be here.
1:58.4	It's about what's today like, December the 7th or 8th was something like that, I got
2:06.0	clean and sober, I took drugs as well, clean and sober on December the 13th, 2002, December
2:19.0	12 was my last day using, and yes, a lot has changed and if I get to December 13th, you
2:32.9	know in a week's time, that will be 18 years, thanks to the principles of AA, the members
2:42.7	of the fellowship, faith in our higher power, I suppose like listening to those readings
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