Workshop: How To Recover - Bob D (Thru Step 1)

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

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This is part of a one day workshop led by Bob D from Las Vegas speaking on the topic of How to Recover, at an in-person Big Book workshop held in Scarborough in August of 2022. He covers through Step 1 and I do not have the rest of this workshop. I have looked around and cant find a full copy, if any of you have it and you would care to share it please email me, otherwise this is what it is. Quick Reminder: If you are in the vicinity of Rochester NY or Honolulu Hi on the weekend of the 3rd they each have AA events happening. https://scast.us/events If you have any LGBTQ speaks you are willing to share with me please drop me an email, this is another area my library is a bit weak in. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event: The Lake Area Roundup in Lake Charles Louisiana. March 10-11 2023 - "Came To Believe" 70th anniversary speakers, ice cream social, meetings, workshops, raffles, food, entertainment and lots of fellowship. Details: https://scast.us/lake 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 our Linktree and click "Submit An AA Event". Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2100+ 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 SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops in
0:11.3	podcast format.
0:12.3	We're an ad free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.1	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.4	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.5	I'm Bob, I'm an alcoholic.
0:31.0	Would you join me after a moment of silence in an opening prayer I'd like to use?
0:42.8	Lord, help me to set aside everything I think I know about you, everything I think I know
0:49.6	about myself, everything I think I know about others, and everything I think I know about
0:56.2	my own recovery for a new experience in you, Lord, a new experience in myself, a new
1:04.2	experience in my fellows, and a much-needed new experience in my own recovery.
1:10.2	Amen.
1:13.2	What I'm going to try to do, and I'm not an expert on the big book or the steps or anything
1:21.6	like that, what I am is a guy who, throughout the early 70s, came in and out of alcoholics
1:27.5	and on him and relapsed over and over and over again, and I tried to stay sober on the fellowship,
1:35.6	and I couldn't understand what was wrong, why I kept going back to it, until I eventually
1:46.9	in 1978 came into alcoholics and on him is the last time, and I had some people that were
1:53.6	put in my path that showed me how to put the process in this book into my life, and like
2:00.2	everything in alcoholics and on him is I am just basically going to share with you my
2:05.4	experience with that, and I hope that it might be useful.
2:13.5	On page 20 of the book, there's a little paragraph that I belong to a home group in Las
2:19.2	Vegas that's called the specific group, and a lot of people think the group is named
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