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Hi, my name is Yvonne. I am an alcoholic.

So nice to be here. I'd like to thank Chris for inviting me to come up here and share with you all tonight.

And Chris and Barbara and the whole group for being so hospitable.

This is a great group. I love the energy. I don't know. Sometimes you know you're walking and meaning you're not familiar with.

I love, I love, I love walking and energy. I'd like to welcome you if you're new.

I think probably the most important thing that I have to say for myself tonight is that I love alcoholics and honest.

I absolutely love alcoholics and honest. And if you're new and you think that's crazy, I relate to you. I do.

I'm one of those people that I didn't have to come to alcoholics and honest.

I can't believe it had a gun in my head, but I had lost custody of my daughter and getting custody of her back was contingent on my going to alcoholics and honest.

And I wanted custody of her. So I went to AA and I sat in the back of the room hating it.

Now, I was raised Catholic. I have a wonderful Catholic family. There's nothing wrong with Catholicism.

Please don't hear that in what I have to say, but I didn't like it when I was growing up.

And I hated mass in particular. And I felt like every week when I went to mass, I was like an hour of this boring, hard thing I had to get through.

And when I was new to alcoholics and honest, I felt like meetings were the same thing. I had to sit in the back. I just hated it.

And my experience is that I got a sponsor. Actually, she appointed herself to me. I wouldn't invest her.

She told me she was going to be my sponsor. And then she gave me a whole bunch of direction that I'll get into later, but she kind of intimidated me.

So I did what she asked. And I'll tell you my experience in alcoholics and honest is that my mind follows where my feet go.

I had a sponsor that trained my feet in alcoholics and honest. And somewhere along the line, I went from hating alcoholics and honest to just falling in love with it.

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