Workshop: Ego and Self - Bob A (Part 4 of 5)

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

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Bob A was sober 44 years at the time he passed away, his experience in recovery led him to an approach to the steps based in dealing with ego and self and carrying the message of twelve step recovery. Over the years he led many retreats and workshops. This is part 4 of a 5 part series hosted in Culver City. There is some Q and A at the end of his speak, the questions were impossible to hear, I cut out the dead air and you hear answers but not questions. This ends abruptly. There is a group called Prime Time in Los Angeles California that bases their (in-person and zoom) meetings around his approach to the steps. https://primetimeisnow.com 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.
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0:22.0	We hope you enjoy the podcast.
0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.4	You see, if this wasn't a program recovery,
0:29.4	it would mean there's a program of failure. And that can't be. I'm coming up to 42 years in
0:35.8	December that's not a program of failure. I haven't drank. I've had a good life.
0:40.8	I've had a good a mind that amazes me even today.
0:46.0	So the world it presents to me, the people that have presented to me,
0:49.0	people I can be a part of their life, how come?
0:52.0	Before I couldn't own, I couldn't even own a dog but
0:54.9	kill it. This is serious what I'm saying. My head is a vicious mind. It's a mind that's full of me. It's full of tomorrow's. It's fully yesterday. It's full of anger. It's full of depression. It's full of everything and it's always going to be full of it, but I don't need to live by it. I don't have to draw from it. I don't have to relive things. I don't have to experience the same experience I had before it. Why do that? It's not necessary, it's not needed, self says that
1:25.1	is, but God says no it's not. Well I'm talking about application and steps in the
1:32.4	now. Now I had to learn myself that this means exactly that
1:37.8	I do have a power right now, right now, right now, that if a thought comes to me, it doesn't have to stay. I don't have to feed into
1:46.2	it. I don't have to give it energy. I don't have to follow through. I don't have to take it with me
1:50.6	another foot. It doesn't, it just, I just don't have to energize it.
1:55.3	Surment on him out when he's talking to him at Fox in there and it talks in there
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