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Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

Workshop: The Spiritual Journey in the 12 steps (Steps 1 and 2) Multiple Speakers

Sober Cast: An (unofficial) Alcoholics Anonymous Podcast AA

AA Podcast

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This is the first part of a workshop about the Spiritual Journey within The 12 Steps, it was held in Lake Whitney Texas in 1996. The first speaker is an AA member focusing on Step One, the second speaker on the topic of Step Two is a member of Al-Anon. If you are interested in hearing the rest of this workshop please let me know. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1800+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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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

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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.

0:23.9

Have a great day.

0:24.9

I too enjoyed last year's experience.

0:29.7

It was an excellent experience.

0:35.3

About to do this and anything I can think of can be a group of my people talking about

0:39.8

subjects that I like, just sharing, you know.

0:47.1

I've been asked to share a little bit of regarding the first step, and I worked on the

0:54.4

first step for 34 years, and you think I'd know something about it.

1:02.4

It just proves you've been 34 years doing stuff and not knowing anything.

1:09.1

There's a line in the big book that says that in our program there's not a lot of, it's

1:17.5

not in the book that it's referred to a lot of must.

1:22.2

Some of us would take a little exception to that, because that's our bent, but it says

1:29.1

that we must concede to our animal self, Rob Hawks, and that's a pretty tall order

1:37.2

when you stop and think about it, conceding to your animal self.

1:44.1

Sometimes we intellectually understand, you know, we're emotionally attached to, we have

1:52.3

a awareness of, but really to concede to your animal self, that's something to face

2:01.1

and attention to.

2:06.1

I was drinking alcoholically, long before I became aware of drinking, I remember, while

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