Topic Workshop: Recovery History - Chris S (Part 1 of 15)

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

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This is the first part of a pretty interesting topic based workshop series presented by 10 different AA members all with a good bit of sobriety. This is a Montclair Group Workshop presented in 2009. Part 1 of 15. Part one is on the topic of - Recovery History it is presented by Chris S, he does a great job talking about the history of recovery starting with the Washingtonians moving into the Oxford group and spending a good deal of his time discussing AA. Tomorrow Part 2: Dave K - Understand the Illness. 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/event Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/event 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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0:00.0	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 enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:24.7	Good evening everybody.
0:28.0	My name is Chris and I am an alcoholic.
0:30.3	This is kind of a new town for me so I'll give my AA vital statistics on or around
0:38.0	December 28th 1989 the grace of God separated me from alcohol.
0:43.0	Oh, the willingness born in desperation pushed me into Alcoholics Anonymous and I started to do the things that I thought I needed to do to survive. And that's helped to maintain my spiritual condition over the years
0:58.3	and I haven't had a drink since that crazy night back in December of 89. I'm very grateful for that. I've always
1:06.6	had a home group since day one. Since day two I've always had a sponsor uninterrupted and I pay a lot of attention to how much time in my life goes to
1:19.6	goes to AA and goes to the spiritual life and helping others.
1:23.6	Because I know it's in direct proportion to any serenity
1:28.1	or any survival I might have,
1:30.8	the amount of attention I pay to AA stuff. The topic tonight is a little bit about
1:37.0	the history of the big book and I'll warn you that this is my perspective.
1:44.5	History is a fickle thing.
1:46.5	I love reading about history.
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