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Back to SearchMy Parakeet Died With Two Years Sobriety - AA Speaker - Jack H.
Episode 332
Jack H. has been sober since 1958, drank with a parakeet named Petey who learned poker language, and says he's still got every defect of character he…
5 months, 1 week ago
I Can't Stay Sober on Yesterday's Spiritual Awakening - AA Speaker - Frank M.
Episode 331
Frank was born in a mental hospital, drank for 23 years to silence the feeling that he was an intruder in every room he walked into, and one hot day …
5 months, 1 week ago
My Sponsor Said I Might Be the Only Big Book Someone Ever Sees - AA Speaker - Jan E.
Episode 330
Jan walked into AA court-ordered with spiky hair, told them she wasn't like them, and left — then came back when they were right. We just launched o…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Steps Are the Diagnosis, the Prescription, and the Medicine - AA Speaker - David A.
Episode 329
David A. has been sober since 1967 and once fell into an open grave drunk at a funeral he was supposed to carry — this two-part step study is old-sch…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
I Called My Sponsor From the VIP Suite With a Beer in My Hand - AA Speaker - Ben H.
Episode 328
Ben built a 300-can beer shrine at age seven, called his sponsor from a snowmobile race with a beer in his hand, and walked past his own mother on th…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
From 56 Pages of Chaos to a Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams - AA Speaker - Patti O.
Episode 327
She blacked out her past, faked her own death to escape charges, and faced 10 years in prison—yet what finally broke her wasn’t jail… it was the unbe…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
From Waking Up in Random Cities to Never Wanting a Drink Again - AA Speaker - Chris B.
Episode 326
He wasn’t a failure—he was successful, respected, and “smart”… until alcohol slowly took everything, leaving him homeless, hopeless, and completely p…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
I Had Ten Meetings a Week and Was Completely Hollow Inside - AA Speaker - Mike L.
Episode 325
Mike was five years sober, going to 10 meetings a week, and completely hollow inside — until the man he disliked most in AA told him he'd missed the …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
I Said I'm Fine for 40 Years and Never Meant It Once - AA Speaker - David L.
Episode 324
David spent every Saturday planning how to drown himself and 22 years smiling and saying "I'm fine" — until a sponsor gave him two lines to say to hi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
My Brain Was the Problem, Not Just the Drinking - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Episode 323
Peter went through seven treatment centers, got drunk two days after the fifth one, and was dying in a hallway on the Lower East Side before he found…
5 months, 3 weeks ago