Topic: The Key To Contented Sobriety - Greg B (31 Years)

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🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today we have Greg B from California, he got sober in 1992 and he is sharing on the topic of The Key To Contented Sobriety at the broken elevator group held on zoom in July of 2023. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are anywhere near San Luis Obispo California, the weekend of August 25th, the 56th Annual District 22 Convention is going on and it looks like a fun one. It is a great place to spend a quick vacation weekend less than a 4 hour drive from Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Areas https://scast.us/d22 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 2300+ 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.
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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.
0:27.7	My name is Greg, I'm an alcoholic and thank you Tamara for the invitation to attend the
0:33.5	meeting today and participate in it.
0:36.7	My wife is a fan of the Broken Elevator, I found out about the group through her and I've
0:43.1	attended a couple of your meetings, I'm usually working this time of day but I very much
0:47.8	appreciate the enthusiasm that the members of the meeting have and the way you conduct
0:53.6	the meeting and the service that you all do so thank you all for doing that keeping the
0:59.9	meeting open and thanks for the people that I know that are attending as well, I know
1:05.0	a few of you and it's good to see you.
1:08.8	July 15th 1992 is my sobriety date, I didn't know that was going to be my sobriety date,
1:16.4	I did not decide to quit drinking that day.
1:21.0	The night before had been a terrible drop, four Miller genuine graphs, pretty wimpy bottom.
1:27.6	But I woke up on a Wednesday morning and I didn't drink and I didn't know why and looking
1:35.2	back on it and I got through Thursday and I didn't drink and I woke up Friday morning
1:40.9	July 17th 1992 and I knew I needed help, I knew something had to change and I was out of
1:47.8	ideas about how to try to fix it and alcohol had beaten me to the point where I became willing
1:56.0	to ask for help.
1:58.2	I would wake up most mornings hungover and I would look at myself in the mirror and
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