Topic: No Middle Of The Road Solution

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Young L is our speaker today sharing on the topic of No Middle Of The Road Solution, Young is from Sheffield in the United Kingdom. this was recorded just about a month ago in March of 2023 at the Broken Elevator meeting. Zoom Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next Event: AALA Roundup - lgbtQIA+ at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, May 26-28. With the theme of “Don’t take yourself too damn seriously” the AALA Roundup is the perfect opportunity to connect with others who share your experiences and journey towards a fulfilling sober life. https://scast.us/aala 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 2200+ 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mel.
0:28.7	Thank you, everyone, for your service on this wonderful meeting. Hi, everyone. My name's Young.
0:33.7	I'm a very grateful recovered alcoholic today. Good to see you all. Good to be with my
0:37.5	international AA family. Hi to, I think it's Teia and Wendy on day one. You don't have to drink
0:44.3	again. We've got this beautiful spiritual program of action and you don't have to drink again.
0:49.2	And Don as well, I feel your pain, Don. I'm grieving today, Don, also.
0:55.8	And this is the best place to be with my people.
0:59.8	I went to a funeral yesterday, my auntie's funeral.
1:03.0	She was like my mother to me.
1:05.9	And today I realized, I was thinking, I feel different.
1:09.5	And I was thinking, this is the first time I've ever
1:12.5	experienced grief sober, you know, and it's good to be able to do that. I can do that today
1:19.1	without trying to run away from it, without trying to change the way I feel. And I was thinking
1:25.1	about the last funeral that I went to. And just to rewind, like Mel said, my home group is the Sheffield Big Book Comes Alive group where we studied the big book, this beautiful text of us. My sobriety date is the 24th of the 18th. No.
1:45.4	The Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, 2018.
1:49.4	That's my permanent sobriety date,
1:52.3	as long as I stay close to God and do the things directed in this book.
1:57.0	Yeah, I was thinking about the last, the last few I went to with my father's, and I was still in the madness of active alcoholism. And I made a real fall of myself. I disrespected my father. You know, I made people feel uncomfortable. I down bottles of whiskey. And I know it wasn't me. It was, I wasn't choosing to do that.
2:19.6	I don't beat myself up about that today.
2:22.1	I've made amends to him for doing that.
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