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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Topic: What is the Problem?

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Laura is the first speaker on the topic of "What is the Problem?" from Back to the Basics in Coppet Switzerland May 2014. There is some Q&A at the end and it is a little hard to hear some of the questions, but easy enough to figure out from the answers. This is a repost from May of 2018. 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 and podcast

0:11.8

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0:12.8

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0:17.0

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0:22.3

We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.

0:27.3

Alright everybody, could you all take a seat?

0:34.3

So, we're going to open up this first session.

0:40.3

We'd like to open up with the set aside prayer.

0:44.3

You can join me if you like, if you know it.

0:46.3

Do thank you, Judy.

0:47.3

It's just wrote it down because I forgot to put it down and bring it.

0:52.3

So, God, please set aside everything I think I know about myself, my illness, the steps,

1:02.3

recovery and above all you, God, for an open mind and new experience.

1:08.3

May I see the truth?

1:12.3

So, we're going to start with the first session and I'll explain that.

1:23.3

Hi, my name is Laura and I'm a real alcoholic.

1:27.3

I'm Laura.

1:29.3

Great to see everybody here this morning.

1:31.3

It's something, you know, when you take time out from your busy lives to come to an event like this.

1:37.3

Can everyone hear me?

1:39.3

Yes.

1:40.3

I'm told very often that I don't speak up enough, which I find strange because when I first

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