Topic: Uncovering The Mystery Of Emotional Sobriety

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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John C from Ontario Canada is the speaker today sharing on the topic of: Uncovering The Mystery Of Emotional Sobriety at The Broken Elevator zoom meeting held at the end of February 2023. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate 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 in
0:11.3	podcast format.
0:12.3	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.
0:28.2	I'm an alcoholic, a member of a GAPA group.
0:31.9	My name is John, and I come to you from Hamilton, Ontario today, and looking forward very
0:40.0	much to being with you.
0:43.7	One of the things that I've learned in alcoholics anonymous is that change happens over time,
0:51.2	but inevitably we all change, whether we resist it or not, change is inevitable.
0:59.2	And I couldn't help but think back in the early days of my sobriety, all I was concerned
1:05.1	about was physical sobriety, which makes sense.
1:08.4	I think that's logical to expect.
1:12.6	I come to alcoholics anonymous, not to find God, but to get sober.
1:19.3	Essentially, I came here for it.
1:22.9	So my attention was on the physical sobriety, and my attention stayed there for quite
1:28.2	some time.
1:30.9	Thinking we used to have a saying back then used to say, you know, if I quit drinking
1:35.3	today, I'll be at St. by Thursday, believing that alcohol was the cause of the problem.
1:44.7	Soon later, I learned that that's not true.
1:47.5	Alcohol is a symptom.
1:49.6	That's an expression of a problem.
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