Topic: We Are Not Saints

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

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Gweneth V has been sober for 231 years, she is from from Cape Town South Africa and is sharing on the topic We Are Not Saints, at the Magical Mystery Tour zoom Meeting held in December of 2022. 2 New Events added to the event list, the 70th Annual Tri-State Assembly held in Chautauqua New York at the end of Sept. Details: https://scast.us/tri The Manitoba Keystone Conference held in Manitoba Canada in November. Details: https://scast.us/mkey Coming up soon is the S.E. Regional Conference of Young People in Norfolk Virginia and the Sever cAAmpvention in Gloucestershire UK, visit the event list for full details. Full Event List: https://scast.us/event Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: sobercast@gmail.com Roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up? 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 2700+ 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 Soebecast, where we provide AA speaker meetings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast and if you enjoy listening,
0:15.0	please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	sobercast.com, look for the donate link
0:20.0	and drop a dollar or two into our virtual basket.
0:22.0	We hope you enjoyed the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	When I first came into an alcoholic's anonymous,
0:30.9	have I introduced myself? No. My name is Gruff and I'm an alcoholic and I'm from
0:35.5	Georgia and South Africa. Oh dear. And on the 19th of January I will have 32 years of sobriety and my home group is friends in recovery.
0:46.0	Okay, now I can go to when I first came, I'm going to be going backwards and forwards of it here, so please bear with me.
0:52.0	When I first came in, backwards and forwards of it here so please bear with me.
0:53.7	When I first came into AA, I used to say the serenity prayer
0:59.2	over and over and over again.
1:03.8	But I was saying it.
1:05.1	I was just saying, it but I wasn't hearing anything so I didn't actually recover I did my 90 days in 90
1:31.2	meetings in 90 days but I was not recovering. I was there. We used to talk about
1:39.6	fake it until you make it and I think now I think I heard somebody say if you get your body to the meeting your mind will follow.
1:47.0	Well thank you until you make it was more or less the same sort of thing and that was what I was doing.
1:52.0	So it wasn't I was stay I was at that stage staying
1:56.3	saying stay sober but I will come back to that a little bit later. I read this two days ago. Addiction will end your life. Recovery
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