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Topic: Steps 1-3 Polly P

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Polly P has been a circuit speaker for many years, leading workshops and speaking about the steps all over the world, today she is speaking on the first 3 steps at the 2013 Woodstock of the South held in Lake Lanier Georgia. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: Friends in Recovery Roundup Rally held in Durban South Africa on April 28-29 Details: This event is live and on Zoom. Our group started on Zoom during Covid and this will be our 1st in person event. So we are very excited. https://scast.us/fir 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 2100+ 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

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format.

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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.

0:23.8

Have a great day.

0:27.7

I'm supposed to do steps one, two and three and I'm just, I really am delighted that

0:34.5

I'm doing this because the 12 and 12 says that step one is the only step I have to take

0:41.0

in its entirety and really I only have to take the first part of step one in its entirety.

0:50.2

And one of the things that I didn't get, I got to know Chuck just a tiny little bit before

0:58.5

he died.

0:59.5

Dave and I had moved to Southern California and I got to be with him because our sponsors

1:06.5

were people who were always hanging around Chuck.

1:11.0

And so I got to be at his side for a few times before he died and one of the things that

1:17.9

Chuck said that I always loved and he also says it and a new pair of glasses is life is

1:23.2

just a sequence of surrenders.

1:26.2

But we have to have the first one before we can have the second of the third.

1:30.8

And the first surrender that I had to make was a surrender to alcohol and I just, I want

1:37.7

to talk about that because one of the things that I want to say is that when I came to

1:42.6

the rooms of alcoholic synonymous everybody seemed to be from alcoholic parents or alcoholic

1:47.9

somebody.

1:48.9

I do not come from alcoholic parents and in fact the only person in my family who drank

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