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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day good morning my name is jessica ian i am an

alcoholic hi jessica hi guys um i just wanted to start off by thanking the committee for inviting me.

This has been an unbelievable experience so far, and I know it's just going to get better.

So I was asked when I was invited to come speak, like we were introduced, it's we have bought them too.

So especially the last week, I really started thinking, like, what does that mean to me?

And, you know, it's so broad, emotionally, physically, mentally, financially,

judicially, you know, I think that I definitely came to all of, you know, I complete defeat

in every single area, but it didn't all come at once. And the one thing that became really

apparent to me was that, you know, there's no true definition of what a bottom is.

It leaves it broad and roomy, so it can include all of us, any of us,

who come in with an honest desire to not want to drink anymore.

So I don't, I guess the first thing I want to, when I, I guess I want to bring up is that it says in the 12 and 12, it talks about hitting bottom, and there's no definition of what it is.

It just says that we must hit it. So it's in the first chapter and it talks about why it's so

important that we hit it and it says why this insistence that an alcoholic must hit

bottom. It says that because few will sincerely try to practice the AA program unless

we do.

For practicing the remaining 11 steps means the adoptions of attitudes and actions that none of us could really think of taking.

It talks about being honest and making restitution for harms done.

For who cares about a higher power and meditation and prayer,

who cares about self-sacrifice in times for,

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