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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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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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