Topic: Our Chance To Live

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sandy W from Sussex in the UK is sharing on the topic of Our Chance To Live at the Magical Mystery Tour zoom meeting from November of 2022. I got an event listing recently and since its coming up soon I wanted to give them a shoutout here, its a 12 Step Workshop that is being held in Peterborough Ontario Canada on Feb 3rd, full details on the events page (they had me at the mention of pizza). https://scast.us/events Also if you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 2400+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening,
0:15.0	please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	sobercast.com, look for the donate link
0:20.0	and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	But I would like to start my share off
0:29.4	by saying that Alcoholics Anonymous has saved my life.
0:35.9	It's taught me how to live one day at a time.
0:39.7	And that God has taught me to have faith and to trust and how to relax and how to have peace.
0:47.1	And that is a miracle for somebody like myself.
0:51.1	Okay, where do I start? I've been praying and hoping my
0:58.1	high power is going to kick in here because I had all these thoughts before the
1:01.9	meeting started and then my brain just went completely blank.
1:05.0	My name is Sandy and I'm an alcoholic and thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous I am alive and I have been sober one day at a time continuously for 18 years and that is a miracle.
1:20.0	I am the eldest of three daughters.
1:22.8	Sorry, I hesitate there because in 2017,
1:29.2	my baby sister took her own life to this illness, but I still am the eldest of three.
1:35.3	My father was in the Air Force and he was a very very strict man.
1:40.9	It's. I had to it's like I had three little three little lives when I was growing up. I had the life at home which was really really scary. My dad was unpredictable and he was quick with his fists and he was cruel and he said that I would never be loved that nobody would ever want me. The rules were so strict that we weren't allowed
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