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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Workshop: Emotional Sobriety - Joe & Charlie - Part 2 of 2

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This is the second part of a two part workshop on Emotional Sobriety was led by Joe & Charlie (yes that Joe and Charlie) along with John W, it was held at the Wilson House in 1990. This part touches on the emotional sobriety of the group and AA as a whole. Part 2 of 2. Part 1 was published yesterday and knowing folks will ask, just making it easier to find part 2. Repost from mid 2020. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Next AA Event: If you are in Florida soon the Way of Life Conference is coming up June 10th at the Marriott Hotel in Palm Beach Gardens. Details: https://scast.us/wol 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 2200+ 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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He'd always maintain person him to the level of pressure he will infield.

0:32.3

I think this is quite obvious you know because we get all kinds of arguments about who's

0:36.5

going to represent the group on TV and one would want to be doing it, it would be a lot

0:44.1

of confusing.

0:45.1

So this is a non-action, if we don't get into these things, there won't be any controversy

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in the group.

0:52.1

And I think you know we said, you know, it's attraction rather than I think that is really

0:57.0

a bit of a success of our non-action and it's very difficult because you know most

1:03.4

everything in the world has to be promoted and that's another thing that's really different

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about our non-action.

1:08.3

It's not promoted, everything that we see is promoted and that's what makes us different

1:15.0

and maybe that's what makes us attractive and we're not promoted, we do not promote

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our sale.

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And I think that's one of the greatest attractions in our society today, the lack of

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promotion.

1:27.5

And of course one of the purposes of this particular tradition is to protect AA itself.

1:34.6

We have a well-known public figure who becomes a member of AA and if that figure within

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