Multiple Speakers: Laura (1 Year) and Krylon - LGBTQ

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Laura who just celebrated 1 Year opens the meeting as the 10 min speaker. She is followed by Krylon (sober in 2004) who tells his story for the balance of the time. This is a meeting of the North Oakland AA Open speaker meeting held in Oakland California and its one from 2021, during the pandemic so its a zoom this time. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added an event to the list happening at the Jackpot Ranch in Verde Arizona and it looks to be a very fun one at the end of October. Details here https://scast.us/verd 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
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.8	Hi my name is Laura, I'm an alcoholic and an addict and well let's see I'm going to
0:34.5	start at the beginning.
0:37.0	When I was a kid like you hear most alcoholics say I never felt comfortable in my own
0:41.8	skin.
0:42.8	I always felt lonely as when I was in a crowd and none of these things made me alcoholic
0:48.8	something in my brain you know made me an alcoholic but these things didn't help any.
0:56.7	I grew up in a middle class family and I was loved very much but my father was a raging
1:02.1	alcoholic, very angry raging alcoholic.
1:05.8	So I had a good example on how to serve my career of drinking and as I said before this
1:12.7	didn't make me an alcoholic either but it's just one of the things in my life.
1:19.6	I had extremely low self esteem.
1:23.1	I liked to drink at a you know young age and I liked to double in drugs to as a teenager
1:30.8	and conglomeration of these things led to me getting myself pregnant when I was 17.
1:39.2	I married the dad and we started this marriage with a lot of love but both of our addictions
1:48.9	pretty much killed the love within a couple years and our marriage became a very scary
1:55.2	place to be.
1:57.4	I left him after a few years and took my son with me and my poor son was kind of bewildered
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