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I Loved Blackouts Because I Was Neither Dead Nor Really Alive - AA Speaker - Damon G.

Damon was a militant atheist who chased blackouts as his only escape from a life he didn't want — the steps didn't just get him sober, they sent him to seminary. We just launched our new Episodes page — search hundreds of AA speaker meetings by topic, speaker, or step ☀️ Sober-Sunrise.com Damon was spiritually sick long before alcohol showed up — the ruined relationships and lost jobs were already happening. When he found what booze could do, he chased blackouts six or seven nights a week because they were the closest thing to not existing without having to die. When that stopped working, he crawled into AA and almost walked right back out after hearing people with decades who sounded just as miserable as he felt. A sponsor who pounded the table about doing more showed him the book, and Damon walks through all 12 steps across four sessions with the precision of someone who thinks his way into corners and had to think his way out. From the claw in Union Square that was really trying to lead him somewhere better, to returning a box of stolen library books so old they couldn't scan them, to spontaneously grabbing his shoes and running out to church with his father for the first time — the man who would have taken his own life to avoid anything religious ended up in seminary, not because he found a belief system but because the steps gave him an experience he still can't describe. Damon G. from Bay Shore, NY. Four night step-work covering all 12 steps at the Primary Purpose Group in Seaford, NY – February 5th thru February 26th, 2011. Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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I Called AAA Looking for Alcoholics Anonymous - AA Speaker - Martin S.

After nineteen days alone in a motel, Martin calls for AA help, accidentally reaches AAA, and realizes that tomorrow is too late—he needs the Alcoholics Anonymous solution now. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Li...

31 Elo 52min

The 12 Steps Were Numbered for Screwballs Like Me - AA Speaker - Wesley P.

With 32 years sober, Wesley explains why AA’s Twelve Steps must become an everyday way of life—and how success, ego, and complacency can quietly lead an alcoholic back toward bondage. ☀️ Sober Sunrise...

30 Elo 59min

I Asked for a Sponsor and Never Drank Again - AA Speaker - Sean C.

After eight months of repeatedly restarting his sobriety date, Sean asks another man to sponsor him and begins following the Big Book directions that finally make AA a way of life. ☀️ Sober Sunrise Ap...

29 Elo 54min

I Get to Have Another Day - AA Speaker - Reid M.

After believing his life was over, Reid finds hope in Alcoholics Anonymous and discovers why working with other alcoholics is essential to his own recovery. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Listen to Sober Sunris...

26 Elo 1h 17min

It’s an Inside Job - AA Speaker - David M.

After years of anger, isolation, and drinking, David discovers that lasting recovery begins with finding peace within through the Steps, fellowship, and service. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App Listen to Sober S...

25 Elo 36min

I Was Out of Plans - AA Speaker - Scott R.

A former Broadway actor and television director explains how running out of plans opened the door to surrender—and helped him rebuild the family alcoholism had nearly destroyed. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App L...

24 Elo 1h 12min

I Wanted to Know How You Stopped Starting - AA Speaker - Jeff W.

One of AA’s original members recalls how a living example showed him the difference between being forced to stop drinking and finally learning how to stop taking the first drink. ☀️ Sober Sunrise App ...

21 Elo 54min

I Thought I Was Empty, but I Was Full of Me - AA Speaker - Peter M.

In this Big Book workshop on AA Steps 10, 11, and 12, Peter explains how inventory, prayer, meditation, and intensive work with other alcoholics replace the noise of self with spiritual freedom. ☀️ So...

20 Elo 1h 13min