I share my experience, strength and hope with you regarding my own recovery from alcoholism through the 12 Steps in Alcoholics Anonymous. By the grace of God I've remained sober since I was 18 years old (1989). I started drinking and using drugs very young. I got sober during a time when there were not a lot of young people in AA. Moreover, I was homeless. I got sober in the very same location I drank. I'm passionate about recovery, and about sharing my incredible experience with others in every way I can. I am sincerely happy, joyous, and free.
It is my experience that unsolicited advice about medication kills people.
In this episode, I read from the Big Book, where it states that spirituality can be an incredible health restorative, but goe…
In this episode I talk about how the AA principles have taught me that a loving act is always a constructive act, and it must travel because it simply cannot be destroyed.
It has to keep going.
From …
In this episode I talk about coming out on top in every conversation. And how I slowly came to see this as my self-centeredness.
In this episode I talk about my experience concerning how I choose to spend the most valuable currency there is: time.
Page 63 of the Big Book says, "When we sincerely took this position, all sorts of remarkable things followed. We had a new employer."
In this episode I talk about bringing that mentality to my actual…
In this episode I share my thoughts and some of my experience concerning playing God with a sponsee.
It's easy to do.
How do I know I'm doing it?
When a sponsee is frustrating me.
In this episode I share my experience with being stuck on amends you know you should make. And how it is really a Step Three issue.
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In this episode, I talk to someone who struggled for years in AA, unable to stay sober very long, until he found a sponsor who took him through the 12 Steps in a matter of days instead of weeks or mo…
In this episode I read what the Big Book says about trying to protect a struggling alcoholic from relapse.
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Living Step Three
Being miserable.
Over the years, I've learned how to do it.
I have the recipe.
I've gotten really good at it.
In this episode I share a recipe for misery that works really well.
I am on vacation, so I am reposting my very first episode, from July of 2019.
Enjoy!
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In this episode I share my understanding and experience concerning boredom.
And the simple way I found to overcome it.
In this episode I talk about how simple I've learned to keep this: Is it selfish or not?
I also read from Emmet Fox about everything either stemming from fear or from love.
I believe these concepts to …
The Big Book says fear is a manifestation of self.
The Big Book says we outgrow fear.
The Big Book says our fears will fall from us.
The Big Book says we watch for (not dwell on) fear, and that, on a go…
The Big Book says, "Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of our selfishness."
But what is selfish?
In this episode, I share some of my experience and thoughts concerning this.
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In this episode, I share my personal experience concerning my first experience with the Third Step prayer.
In this episode, I read from pages 100- 101 in the Big Book and talk about my own experience with "the alcoholic mind", keeping in fit spiritual condition, and being able to be around alcohol.
Thank …
In this episode, I go through Step Three in the Big Book, line by line, and share my experience with and understanding of it.
ALSO: I share about the good experience I'm having with EMDR therapy.
My I…
In this episode I share my personal story regarding going to school.
From getting F's in sixth grade to my sober experience in well-known universities.
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