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.
In this episode I talk about how important it has been in my life and recovery to be able to follow my own conscience.
Do the people in your life allow you to do this?
Do they encourage it? Discourag…
In this episode I talk about the person who taught me by being a living example of how well the 12 Steps can work.
In this episode I talk about the one thing I personally feel I have done best, which is consistently seek a power greater than myself.
Sobriety has been, at times, messy, a roller coaster; I have fel…
It is, sadly, a common belief amongst AA members that we should not use our brains, that our brains don't work.
In this episode I talk about what the actual "Big Book" says about intelligence, and our…
In this episode I discuss Traditions Four and Five, and read from the AA Traditions Checklist.
In this episode I share my very own personal way I organize my own thoughts.
Worth mentioning that I was incapable of doing this prior to doing Steps 4-9.
In this episode I talk about analyzing oneself to a point where you're essentially doing nothing.
On page 83 of the "Big Book," it says "the spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. "
In this episode I talk about what that looks like in my life, and my belief that fear is the absence o…
In this episode I talk about experience that has created a belief that every single loving thing a person does absolutely matters.
In this episode I again read something from Emmet Fox, and then from Alcoholics Anonymous.
- Faith alone is not enough
Emmet Fox wrote, "Problems are sign-posts on the road to God"
In this episode I talk about how our problems are merely opportunities to grow closer to God.
I give examples from my personal life, and I…
In this episode I talk about how hard it can be to tell someone you're struggling with something.
Today is my AA anniversary:
- I discuss that miracle
- I read some of "A Vision For You" from Alcoholics Anonymous
- Quality verses quantity
In this episode:
- I read the Forward to the First Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous
- I talk about my "media diet" and how it impacts me
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In this episode I discuss several different subjects:
- "Cynicism over the state of the nations"
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In this episode I read the questions from The Traditions Checklist concerning Tradition Two and Tradition Three.
In todays episode, I discuss the following:
- Assigning new meaning to things
- Conscience contact with a Higher Power
- Giving "Sober Lessons" and/or being a bully in AA
In this episode I discuss Tradition One by reading from The Traditions Checklist, which is a set of questions published in the AA Grapevine.
To celebrate the 100th episode, I invited my wife to join me.
This podcast was her idea.
She talks about the 12 Steps, ACA, and our relationship with one another and with God.
We also talk about commu…
In this episode I just wanted to make an episode that might help anyone who is hurting right now.