Sober Talk
Scheduled on
Thursday | 7:30 pm | 8:00 pm |
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Tagged as: Catch-up, Spoken Word, Talk
Sober Talk is a fortnightly show presented by Dennis on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursday of the month. Invited AA speakers tell their story on each show, it’s just like (almost) being at a meeting.
Listen to past speakers on the shows web page or use the podcast player below
Members of Alcoholics Anonymous South Australia share their recovery stories on local radio station PBAFM 89.7 and repeated here.
If you think you have a problem with Alcohol contact your local AA office . In Australia call 1300 222 222 or visit aa.org.au
Amanda T. shares her recovery story
Hi everyone, my name's Amanda and I'm a great recovered alcoholic.
What a privilege and an honour it is for you inviting me here to speak today.
My own group is an online meeting which is in West Virginia and I get it mixed
up every time whether it's Point Pleasant or Pleasant Valley or whatever it is
but it's a great bunch of people that I truly love and it's a big book study
and in Australia we meet at 11.30am on a Tuesday morning but I think in the US
over there it's 7.30pm eastern time on a Monday night.
Hope I got that right. It's not advertised on
any of the social media but if you'd like to join us any time we'd love to have
you and I can get those numbers out to you. My sobriety date is the 16th of
March 2013 and I live in a little coastal town in Australia by the beach and I
know that that sounds really, really great and all the rest of it but it's very
isolated so I'm very thankful for Zoom and you know that I can reach out and
meet members all over the world and I'm so glad that you invited me here to
speak tonight.
I hope that something I say comes from my
heart and reaches your heart and I feel very, very blessed that I'm sober today
by the grace of God and I never ever would have thought in a million years that
there was a time where I could get a sober day, just one 24-hour day and the
miracle of this program, don't ever give up hope. God's out there somewhere and
I can't explain, I'm going to try and explain my story but some of the bits of
it I just can't put the words to it because it can't be explained and I'm going
to start right back and I know that this is going to sound a little bit weird
but anyway it just goes to show that I believe that I was born an alcoholic
because when I was a baby I was restless, irritable and discontent and I cried
and cried and cried all the time and back then it was an old myth or whatever I
mean it was just what was done. My mother used to put brandy in my bottle and
that used to shut me up and put me to sleep so you know I grew up in an
alcoholic home where you know it cured all ills.