Workshop: Emotional Sobriety - Polly P (2 of 2)

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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I ran a series on this topic just about a month ago and this is a quick 2 day workshop on the same topic to offer another perspective. This is part 2 of a 2 part workshop on the topic of Emotional Sobriety conducted by Polly P, she was 33 years sober at the time of this workshop. You might notice a slight audio artifact here and there, this had some sort of electronic feedback in much of the file. I got the majority of it out but there are a couple of remnants. Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate Email: [email protected] Sober Cast has 2900+ 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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0:23.7	Have a great day.
0:27.3	Okay, whether you're sitting down, just sit down quietly.
0:31.4	Okay, shh.
0:32.8	Okay, the next character defect is intolerance.
0:39.3	I'm sure none of you are intolerance.
0:43.3	An emotional inebriate which fouls up 12-step work.
0:49.0	It succeeds in blocking awareness of what has been shared with one in this program.
0:58.7	It seems it causes emotional bias and prejudice.
1:04.6	And I want you to hear what Bill says on page 103 in the big book.
1:16.6	A spirit of intolerance might repel alcoholics whose lives could have been saved had it not been for such stupidity.
1:17.6	Wow.
1:18.6	Now that's some strong words because it is important that when people come into these rooms, that we do not have a spirit of intolerance.
1:31.6	Now, let me just ask you to do a little soul searching.
1:35.5	Have you been to a meeting lately where there was a wet drug?
1:39.5	And they were disturbing people.
1:41.9	And everybody was getting a little nift by the wet drop.
1:45.8	Now, I don't know if you guys know this, but this is alcoholics.
1:55.8	I'm not sure you know that because this is where alcoholics come and I am so glad that you didn't kick
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