Multiple Speakers: Jeff - 1 Year and Rebecca - 16 Years (NSFW)

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jeff was sober a year when he gave the opening 10 min share at this meeting at the North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting held in Oakland California. The balance of the meeting we have Rebecca telling her story with the perspective of 16 years sober. 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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0:27.8	Jeff, I'm an alcoholic.
0:30.2	I was kind of looking forward to this, it's like the Backstreet Boys thing going on.
0:37.1	Yeah, so I'm grateful to be asked to share here.
0:41.1	I didn't really put that much thought into it, thankfully I've been too stressed out about
0:47.3	something else going on and I don't really believe in the whole script thing.
0:52.2	So I'm just going to kind of go with it.
0:55.0	So let's see, my sobriety date is March 7th, 2018, so I just had one year.
1:04.0	Yeah, thank you.
1:08.0	I'm from Half in Bay, I've lived in the East Bay for about 10 years.
1:15.0	So I started drinking pretty regularly when I was 14.
1:23.0	I'm just going to go into shows and hanging out with other punk rockers, start playing and bands and stuff.
1:36.0	So I guess the high school years was the only time where it was really, I think my drinking was normal and it wasn't totally a complete physical dependency type deal.
1:53.0	Let's see.
1:59.0	Yes, that was the time period where it was kind of just for fun and partying and maybe a little bit of self-medication.
2:10.0	And I'd say around when I was 18, I would start kind of doing a morning drink here and there.
2:23.0	That's kind of around fast forward to the band I was in.
2:31.0	We got an opportunity to tour Europe, which was probably one of the coolest things I'd ever felt like I'd done.
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