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Ellen C. – Family Recovery Speaker – “Changing my attitude, changing my life” (Funny!)
This is one of the best Al-Anon speakers out there! Ellen shares a powerful story of coming to terms with her daughter’s alcoholism and addiction. This is a great story for everyone, but especially people that have a family member struggling with substance abuse. Recovery is possible! Accepting things exactly how they are I’m so […]
Father Tom W. “We can BE the CHANGE” – Family Recovery Speaker
I had faith, I had belief at one time I could speak Latin, Greek, Spanish and English, yet I was still drunk. My problem was there was just no hope. I had faith and belief, but no hope at all. I want to talk about this for a little bit and maybe explain it to […]
Mickey B. – AA Speaker – Extremely funny share from the podium!
Hitting bottom wasn’t because of the outside circumstances and conditions of my life like I thought at the time. For me, hitting bottom is an inside job. That’s why those celebrities and millionaires I sponsor hit bottoms just as devastating as those guys on Skid Row I work with. I know that the mentality of […]
Kip C. giving an emotional and moving talk at an AA Meeting
There are many incredible AA speakers, but Kip’s story has moved and inspired just about every single person that has listened to him. He talks about hitting bottom, which for him was incredibly low, and moving in to a wonderful new life of recovery using the twelve steps. Hitting bottom and realizing it is one […]
Don M. – AA Speaker – Your feelings are not your reality!
So many times in recovery we can get caught up in our own heads. Some people in the rooms call this “the committee.” No matter what particular names is attributed to it, many people can relate to being controlled by feelings and sometimes overwhelmed by them. Don does a magnificent job of telling his story […]
Chris R. – AA Speaker on the topic of “Relapse Prevention”
Look at the truth based on your experience. I go out and I have two beers. I have two beers with dinner and I think I can control it, because that night, all I had was two beers. Everything seems like it is going fine, but I’m fooling myself because what did I do the […]
Bob D. – AA Speaker – “A Shining Example of Recovery from Alcoholism”
Alcohol had the power to change my whole reality. I would go from a devastating, empty, vacant, and desolate life, to a sense of connection that is beyond anything I could have ever imagined. It’s no wonder in the early days when the hook of alcoholism is set, that feeling of being connected becomes the […]
June G. – AA Speaker – “Don’t Quit Before The Miracle Happens”
The amazing thing though is that over the years there is probably one little saying that I come back to time after time and I love sharing it. It is, “We don’t think our way into right living, and we live our way into right thinking.” What an amazing thing. This saying was proven true […]
Paul O. – AA Speaker – “Acceptance is the Answer”
Dr. Paul O., who penned one of the most famous verses in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous on page 417, shares his story of recovery from the podium. In meetings all over the world, Dr. Paul’s simple experience of acceptance and perseverance serves as an inspiration for thousands of AA members. Enjoy this speaker […]
Clancy I. – AA Speaker – On the topic of “Feelings”
I can talk drinking stories, and I can talk jails and hospitals, but I’m not an alcoholic because of just one thing. My problem really isn’t alcohol. It is sometimes it looks like it, smells like it, and people think it is. I want to just shout, “If my problem is alcohol, why did you […]
Chris R. – AA Speaker – “Half Measures Don’t Work!”
Some of you guys are missing the coolest part of this. The hardest thing I did when I got to in to Alcoholics Anonymous was let you into my life, to be vulnerable. to let someone in and get close with somebody. But then in turn, you can help somebody else and it is the […]
Sandy B. – AA Speaker – “Everything is Perception” (Steps 6 and 7)
Sandy B., who wrote “Dropping the Rock” gives a wonderful talk about character defects and the perception of reality for the alcoholic. This is a must listen and an amazing share. A Matter of Perception I realized this year I had a different attitude about death. Death is absolutely essential to life. And life is […]
Bruce T. – AA Speaker – “His famous Hagerstown talk”
All spiritual things come first, all material things follow. So, we all know about that, but it is hard to live that way, you know. The deal is in the third step prayer, which is saying, “God, I offer myself to thee, to build with me and do whatever you want.” Right now, I don’t […]
KC P. – AA Speaker – “God Will Bring You Through It!”
Imagine a life without this fellowship. Imagine a life where we don’t have the love and support of so many people and it’s just like our little golf squad. You know, I went golfing on Wednesday, it was the first tee, and I saw one guy I had known for about three days, and two […]
Matt H. – AA Speaker – “Recovery, my new and wonderful life”
Existence for me personally that is not flowery poetic language. I live in a fourth dimension of existence when I say that; it’s not because I’m hallucinating I say that, it is because I live in a way that I didn’t think was possible when I was drinking. I have an internal stable happiness that […]
Bill C. – AA Speaker – “My Wild Journey to a Sober Life”
We sat around all this weekend talking about the steps, the mechanics of it, and how it works, what doesn’t work, what does, and what we think is correct is and the right approach. or an intense approach or you know is there a weak approach of medium approach a strong approach. But what if […]
Ed. M. – AA Speakers – “Laughing and Loving a New Life in Recovery!”
So it is important what we say and what we do in Alcoholics Anonymous. It is important what we say to the new person in Alcoholics Anonymous. It is important that we instill hope in the new person in Alcoholics Anonymous and encourage them. They’ve had enough of the other crap. Believe me, for years […]
Sandy B. – AA Speaker – God takes care of everything!
Clancy says alcoholism is a disease of perception. We are looking at this world incorrectly because we’re disturbed. So how can we get to look at it correctly? Get undisturbed? In other words, that becomes the new top priority. So I tried to thin, what is necessary to make this change? We need a new […]
Bob D. – AA Speaker – My Story of Recovery
One day when I was sober about a year and a half I was sinking into a deep depression. I’m the Bill Wilson type of alcoholic. I know I’ve been misdiagnosed by an incompetent psychiatrists, I have been misdiagnosed on a couple occasions too. One time I was diagnosed as clinically depressed, but I’m not actually clinically […]
Jerry J. – AA Speaker – How to find freedom and happiness in recovery
I knew something I had never known before. I knew that I was going to drink that day unless I got some help from somebody. I called Alcoholics Anonymous. I called central office and a lady picked up the phone. I told her that I was a big time lawyer and that I was having […]
Sandy B. – AA Speaker – God is in our Character defects
So one month after I moved to Tampa I was friends and I think it was three couples who invited me to go to a show. They had an extra ticket to a theater in the round thing in downtown Tampa. When I got there there were rows of seats up around the stage. This […]
Earl H. – AA Speaker – How to achieve freedom with the 12 Steps
When the student is ready, the teacher appears. It’s not always the guy with more time in recovery. This can happen when it is the guy with thirty days or sixty days. As you go through this thing, your experience of it will deepen; it will become more and more intense and enlightening. Recovery will […]
Jennifer H. – AA Speaker – Singles in Sobriety Speaker Meeting
With alcohol, it was the only way I was able to wind down and the only way I was going to be able to get some relief. Unfortunately I took my show on the road. I would get pulled over and sometimes I would be able to get out of it, sometimes I would end […]
Lilly H. – AA Speaker – “Practicing Recovery Principles in All Our Affairs”
I go out and I get in the back of that van. I knelt down that night and I said, “God give me one tenth of the faith my mother has.” The next day I’m driving those kids to school and I broke out in a sweat that I never want to forget. I got […]
Lizz H. – AA Speaker – Incredibly moving story of alcoholism recovery
The 90s is when I did most of my drinking and using. I just thought Seattle was where it was, but I stopped in Portland 10 years later and I was still there. I never actually made it Seattle. What I found in Portland were people my age getting sober. I didn’t know that people […]
