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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.

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Sean shares a funny, energetic, and deeply moving AA speaker talk about underage drinking, punk-rock identity, and arriving in Alcoholics Anonymous at eighteen without understanding why he could not simply stop. For eight months, he attends meetings, marks days on a calendar, drinks again, and repeatedly starts over. The turning point comes when Sean asks another man to sponsor him and is taken through the Big Book with simple directions: where it says pray, they pray, and where it says write, they write. He describes the men who kept him company through early sobriety, the Steps that introduced him to a practical spiritual life, and the danger of drifting away after success made him believe he had outgrown the basics. Sean returns to the program through renewed Step work, sponsorship, meetings, and service, eventually discovering that there is no “advanced AA” beyond its literature and helping another alcoholic. When severe illness and loss strike his family, the fellowship he once treated as a social experiment becomes the grace that helps him remain present, useful, and sober.

Sean C. from Santa Cruz, CA speaking at the 34th Annual All California Young People in AA Round-up in Santa Clara, CA - February 25th 2006

Music: Deep by KaizanBlu

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