Topic: We Constantly Remind Ourselves We Are No Longer Running The Show - Step 11

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

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Jimmy A from New Jersey speaking on the topic of: We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show (Step 11, page 87). This was a Zoom meeting hosted by the Fellowship of the Spirit speaker series in July of 2022. Repost from mid 2022. If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/events 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 2500+ 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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0:27.6	So the last time I was here I spoke about my topic was back then was to relax and take
0:33.2	it easy.
0:34.2	We don't struggle.
0:35.2	What I've come to realize when I'm awake is that when I'm struggling with you with situations
0:41.2	or the circumstances of my life, it's probably because I'm doing one or two or three things
0:47.4	like trying to get my way, trying to control you or trying to manipulate the situation.
0:54.1	And it's a really important that I see that, it's really important that I'm awake to
0:58.2	that.
0:59.2	And the reason why is because if I'm not awake to that, that I'm trying to control the
1:03.6	render show or trying to manipulate or trying to get my way, what I do is what my
1:09.3	either likes to start building walls between being you and me and God.
1:15.6	And one of the first things I heard when I came into alcoholics anonymous, we're here the
1:21.1	old time is thrown out the slogans over here, the old time is saying things, these pearls
1:24.8	of wisdom.
1:25.8	And I'll never forget this one guy, he said that alcoholism is a soul sickness caused
1:30.0	by a separation from God and a disconnect from each other.
1:33.3	And when I really think about that, you know, man, that's my alcoholism to be treated.
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