Topic: Step One - Keeping the Connection

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Mark followed by Dave, both speaking on the first step at the 2001 Fellowship of the Spirit on how not to lose touch with Step 1 while being sober. I dont know much about this event except these two take the attendees through the 12 steps. This feels like it ends abruptly but it was the end. 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 1500+ 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 in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket.
0:22.7	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:26.7	Evening, everybody, I'm Mark, I'm an alcoholic.
0:32.7	I want to talk a little bit about my current experience with the first step.
0:41.7	Man, I know long time sober gave me a definition of an old-timer.
0:46.6	He said it's a, someone who's a long time sober, it hasn't any puke on his shoes in the
0:51.2	while.
0:53.2	My experience is if you lose your connection with the first step, the truth and reality
0:58.1	of that experience, that's when the way that will begin to manifest in your life is
1:04.8	the number of meetings that you're going to will begin to decrease.
1:10.5	Your work with the disciplines of 10-11 will slowly begin to decrease.
1:15.9	The number of people that you work with will slowly begin to decrease.
1:23.2	My connection to my first step, my first step experience is critical to me, which is
1:29.9	probably why I work with a lot of alcoholics.
1:33.4	It's hard to lose connection to the first step.
1:37.2	I mentioned to you that this year, you know, spiritual living, alcoholics, anonymous is
1:42.6	tough because people you love and people get close to, they drink and or do drugs and
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