Topic: How I Came To Stay Sober - Bob A

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

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Bob A is the primary speaker leading this topic meeting on the subject of How I Came To Stay Sober held at the December of 1995 Prime Time Stag Meeting. This has multiple folks sharing on the topic, Bob is the primary speaker and leads the group, he was a very popular speaker back in his time. There are a couple of questions at the end you may not be able to make out, they are quick so I didn't remove them, this has a bit of an abrupt ending but it was clearly over. Email: sobercast@gmail.com 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 1800+ 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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0:28.0	In alcoholism on this once I started going the meetings I couldn't I couldn't just
0:34.0	and I wasn't I wasn't making myself not drink in other words I wasn't fighting alcohol.
0:40.0	I wasn't fighting bars or bottles or anything like that.
0:44.0	I didn't like billboards and things like that when I see them you know and add stuff up there.
0:49.0	Pretending to be drinking or anything but that was the fear that I had in me all the time.
0:55.0	The fear returned to the life not the bottle but the life that I come from because it was a bad life.
1:00.0	It was a hard life it was a damn near kill me and so as I went along here going to meetings now that took some time.
1:14.0	And it took it took some time to start realizing or start questioning myself me.
1:22.0	Just exactly what what am I doing here you know just exactly what am I doing here.
1:28.0	I've got a sponsor and I read the book big book 12 by 12.
1:34.0	So I'm not a mount when I came in and Tibo when it came out 57 things like that.
1:41.0	But I never knew that like you're sitting here now and I don't know if you question me this or you think about this or anything else like that.
1:50.0	But I had to do it and I in a reason I had to do it because I had to find out exactly what happened to me and what's the matter with me and why do I have to come to meetings.
2:02.0	Why is it always be the bottle is stay sober don't get drunk you know and it's called alcoholism and I'm not drinking.
2:11.0	Why is it called that and why does it have to be called that and so on.
2:16.0	So there's a lot to talk about I believe in alcohol synonymous here more than just telling you to come here and start putting steps in your life.
2:27.0	And I'll start talking to you maybe like I'd generally do about step one you know and step to whatever step you want to talk about.
2:35.0	Because you know this year group here we have here.
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