Topic: Our Innermost Selves

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We have Matt W from Breman Germany sharing on the topic of - Our Innermost Selves at the Magical Mystery Tour zoom meeting held in August of 2022. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Events: I just added a number of new events to the calendar so if you will be in Arizona, California, New Zealand, Australia, Washington, or Las Vegas take a look. 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.
0:27.5	Good to be on the meeting.
0:31.1	We're very lucky. I'm very lucky. We're all very lucky.
0:37.8	Very few people actually get to AA and even fewer stay here.
0:47.1	So I definitely feel very appreciative that I am so over today.
0:58.4	I haven't obsessed around drinking today and I'm seriously grateful that I can come on to
1:08.9	a meeting and share my experience, strength and hope with people.
1:17.1	Welcome to all the newcomers, people that are counting days.
1:21.6	If I had got this program, when I first come to my first AA meeting, I'd be sober about
1:33.0	15 years and that wasn't my journey, wasn't my story. When I come out on my first treatment
1:43.6	centre, thinking I'd hit bottom and I couldn't cope.
1:54.1	If I'd had got it second time around, when I come out on my second treatment centre,
2:00.1	having done all those things I swore I would never do again.
2:04.8	I'd probably be about seven years sober, maybe eight years, but I'm just over five years.
2:17.6	The message in that is, how are you feeling today, no matter where you are in your journey?
2:25.5	Well, whilst you've still got a beating heart, you still have the opportunity to get this program.
2:39.9	I likened it to a very small window of opportunity.
2:47.5	God gave me. I either jumped through it and grabbed it with both hands
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