Topic: Relapse is Not a Requirement - From ICYPAA 52

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today we have multiple speakers from The International Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous (ICYPAA) 52 held in August of 2010. They are speaking on the topic of recovery after relapse, followed by some Q&A. Email: [email protected] 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 1700+ 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
0:11.8	format.
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0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.5	Hi, I'm Michael, I'm an alcoholic.
0:29.5	Good, everyone here me?
0:33.5	Yeah.
0:34.5	Okay.
0:36.5	I'd like to thank Katya for asking me to speak here.
0:42.6	My sobriety date is January 21st of 2001.
0:46.0	It's kind of giving you an idea about relapsing my story.
0:50.8	I had my first drink at age 14, my first meeting at age 16, and then I got sober at
0:57.4	age 23.
0:58.4	So out of the nine years that I drank, only two of them were without a knowledge of AA.
1:04.0	Although my first time is, you'll hear in a second, trying to really get sober was 18.
1:09.2	But between 18 and 23, the most I ever had was 90 days.
1:15.9	But I originally got sober and I'm from Houston, Texas.
1:20.9	I've been in New York for nine years now as long as I drank that so long time.
1:27.6	In New York now.
1:28.9	But I had my first drink at 14, the consequences started pretty early.
1:35.9	I didn't know anything about, our book talks about the alcoholism being the phenomenon of
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