Topic: Steps 6 and 7

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Mary M got sober in 1977, she is from Los Angeles California is speaking on Steps 6 and 7 at the Broken Elevator Meeting held in January of 2022. Zoom I have an interesting new event for you listed below, I have been in touch with these folks for a while. They are a small group from Durban South Africa that got started on zoom and are now holding their first in person and Zoom event. These folks raised over $2k to purchase the equipment to do a quality event for folks joining them on zoom. They have a short reg form on the website link below, its free via Zoom. So if you think you might be able to pop in please fill out the form. If this goes well they hope to host it in Johannesburg next year. 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: 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 Sobercast, where we provide A.A. Speaker meetings and workshops in podcast format.
0:12.7	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting Sobercast.com, look for the donate link and drop a dollar or two into our virtual
0:21.7	basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day my sobriety day is july fourth
0:29.4	77 so i'm i'm really old i just need to say that um i mean i'm'm old. I've been sober a long time.
0:38.9	And for those of you who are new, and when I think about the steps, I think about the woman
0:45.0	who took me out for coffee after my first meeting, I knew her.
0:50.7	I can't believe that I went to an AA meeting and I knew someone. And she took me out for coffee
0:55.9	afterward. And she said to me, do you have any alcohol or do you take any pills? And I said,
1:04.7	she said, do you have any alcohol in your house? Do you take any pills? And I said, well, I said, of course, I take pills, but they're all
1:15.8	prescribed by doctors. I remember saying that to her. And she said, you know, an AA, it would really
1:21.2	be good if you went home and threw away all your alcohol and your pills. Yeah, my God.
1:27.1	I think I had 40 bottles of alcohol at my house.
1:29.7	Just in case people came over, you know, for a party.
1:33.4	What kind of party would that have been, you know?
1:35.5	And I had medicine cabinets filled with pills.
1:40.5	And, um, and I did it.
1:45.5	And I did it and did it. And I did it.
1:47.0	And did I know at that point I was working step one, step two, step three, step four, step four, step four, five, six.
2:00.7	No, I didn't know.
2:02.0	Did I know that surrendering, surrendering at that point was a surrender to an incredible life?
2:11.4	I didn't know that.
2:13.1	See, I had no idea.
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