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Good afternoon, good morning, good evening family, I'm Vickert, I'm covered, I'll be

all happy to be here with you guys today.

So for reference for any newcomers, my sobriety date is February 10, 2019 and step three

was a very, it was a very interesting experience for me.

I thought I was going to have a lot of resistance around my fourth step and I had a tremendous

amount of resistance come up when I got to through, you know, really briefly just

as a qualification, I started drinking when I was 14 or 15, I drank until I was 28,

I didn't grow up with alcoholic parents, but there was a lot of dysfunction, there was

a lot of separation, there was a lot of me not knowing how to share a place in the world

with people, I didn't know how to communicate, I didn't know how to be in relationships

with people, I didn't know anything about vulnerability or intimacy in relationships,

I didn't understand how to let people get to know who I was, I didn't know how to share

myself, I didn't know how to hold conversations, it was a lot of me attempting to be who

I thought the people around me needed me to be.

I was very much the chameleon where I would just adjust to the people that I was around,

I would adjust to the people that I was in front of, I had a very low tolerance for any

sort of big emotions and I never really learned like an emotional role of X, so when I started

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