Topic: Steps 3 and 4

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Paula P tells some of her story as she speaks on Steps 4 and 5 at the Three Rivers Big Book Weekend 3 held in Richland Washington in September of 2022. I really felt her intensity and passion for the program in this speak. Big Book Weekend 4 is coming up, if you want to attend check our events link. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: I just added a roundup to be held in Bozemen Montana at the end of October to the event list and one of the speakers is Astrid H from Los Angeles. We also have a Young Peoples event coming up in Pennsylvania in July if you are in the neighborhood. 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 2200+ 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.
0:28.6	With the magic formula of these steps, with the magic words of this book, I remember
0:39.1	getting sent to jail one time for a federal offense and I was starting to age out of the juvenile
0:43.0	justice system and age up into the adult penal system and it's not like that was enough.
0:48.8	Why do we think there's going to be an automatic enough?
0:51.2	We don't even have it enough when we're first sober.
0:53.3	Oh, when that man hurts her bad enough she'll leave no, we find a new level and just keep
0:58.1	going.
0:59.1	That's how it goes.
1:00.1	So like adult prison wasn't going to scare me enough to stop me and don't like the idea.
1:05.0	I think I have undiagnosed threats so I wasn't going to go down so well but I mean I could
1:09.6	run those duty joints but you know whatever but I couldn't stop, I couldn't stop and every
1:17.0	time I'd go up against the same judge it was a small town so unfair and he'd say to me
1:21.6	Paul I thought you said you weren't going to drink again and I'd shrug my shoulders
1:24.9	because when you're cool that's what you do in court but if I would have been constitutionally
1:30.6	capable of being honest what I would have said is the truth.
1:35.4	When he said to me I thought he said you weren't going to drink again I'd have said me too.
1:41.4	Me too.
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