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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day evening everybody i'm mark i'm an alcoholic

i want to talk a little bit about my current experience with the first step man I know

long-time sober gave me a definition of an old-timer he said it's a someone

who's a long-time sober it hasn't had any puk on his shoes in a while and my experience is if you lose your connection with the first step,

the truth and reality of that experience,

that's when the way that will begin to manifest in your life

is the number of meetings that you're going to will begin to decrease.

Your work with the disciplines of 10 and 11 will slowly begin to decrease. Your work with the disciplines of 10 and 11 will slowly begin to

decrease. The number of people that you work with will slowly begin to decrease. So my connection

to my first step, my first step experience is critical to me, which is probably

why I work with a lot of alcoholics. It's hard to lose a connection to the first step.

I mentioned to you that this year, you know, spiritual living, alcoholics anonymous is tough because

people you love and people get close to uh... they drink and or do drugs and they

die

uh...

if you're

if you're in this room you have much time sober you you know you have that

experience

i did want to do one thing i want to get a feel for length of sobriety

how many of you give me a show of hands

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