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AA Recovery Interviews
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Добавлен 8 мар 2021
AA Recovery Interviews podcast explores the lives of recovered alcoholics who got sober in Alcoholics Anonymous. In each one-on-one interview, my anonymous guests share their experience, strength, and hope through a lively discussion of what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now. AA Recovery Interviews protects the guests' anonymity by not showing faces and using first names and last initials only.
[Disclaimer: In strict adherence to A.A.’s traditions, anonymous guests and host speak for themselves only, not for Alcoholics Anonymous at large. We share only our personal experiences with A.A. recovery. We acknowledge that AA’s sole concern is the recovery and continued sobriety of those alcoholics who turn to the Fellowship for help. As members of AA, our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.]
[Disclaimer: In strict adherence to A.A.’s traditions, anonymous guests and host speak for themselves only, not for Alcoholics Anonymous at large. We share only our personal experiences with A.A. recovery. We acknowledge that AA’s sole concern is the recovery and continued sobriety of those alcoholics who turn to the Fellowship for help. As members of AA, our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.]
Brian A. – Sober 31 Years
Alcoholism’s tornadic sweep through Brian’s life laid waste to his prospects for a happy future. Brian was raised in a family deeply rooted in alcoholism, a disease that ultimately took his father’s life. Brian’s his childhood and adolescence were further complicated by a severe skin allergy that physically and emotionally isolated him from others. By the time he started drinking at age 13, Brian’s pent-up frustration and pain were immediately soothed the magical effect of alcohol. With the ball in motion, he forged ahead in school and career fueled by the relief booze offered. Into his late 20’s and early 30’s, Brian’s growing use and abuse of alcohol were obfuscated from self-examinatio...
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Wes H. - Sober Since November 1991 (Encore of Episode 56)
Просмотров 43День назад
Wes’ love of writing songs as a kid grew into a hectic, alcohol-infused career in the music business. Whether it was writing, performing, or producing, daily drinking was just part of the gig. For a while, alcohol was unobtrusive and often served his creative endeavors. However, by the time alcohol turned on him, its debilitating effects on his body, psyche, and spirit had pushed him to the bri...
Cody T. - Sober 4 Years
Просмотров 5014 дней назад
Cody’s story is a tragic tale rooted in a family rampant with alcoholism and drug addiction. Both of his parents were hard-drug users who sadly never attempted to get sober. Cody used drugs with them on a regular basis in addition to his drinking, further complicating any notions that he might be an alcoholic. As booze and heroine addled Cody’s decision-making and behavior, he was whipsawed int...
Margie D. - Sober Since November 1979 (Encore of Episode 7)
Просмотров 37Месяц назад
Originally from New England, but having lived in Great Britain for many years, Margie has over 45 years of sobriety. Having faced countless obstacles to getting to AA and subsequent challenges to sobriety during her 4 decades in the Program, Margie has remained as passionate and committed to the AA as one can be. In all those years, the longest she’s ever gone without a meeting was 10 days (dur...
Mike J. - Sober 34 Years
Просмотров 45Месяц назад
Mike's qualification for AA was honed by years of alcohol and drug abuse. Like so many others in our Program, Mike’s experience with alcohol started as a young teenager who drank to overcome feelings of being “less than”, despite his being raised by his grandparents in a strict, but loving home. Mike’s grandfather was the local Baptist minister. Any abhorrent behavior Mike engaged in was quickl...
Laura B. - Sober 37 Years
Просмотров 58Месяц назад
Laura B. got sober at age 17 after 4 years of intensively developing her alcoholism into qualification for AA. In that first meeting, she picked up a desire chip that initiated her 37 years of sobriety as an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous. A compelling aspect of Laura’s story is that her father was in AA and her mother was in Al-Anon. They used the tools of their respective Programs to e...
David P. - Sober 37 Years
Просмотров 51Месяц назад
As the frontman for a British band that was among the vanguard of punk rock in the late 1970s, my guest, David P., rode the New Wave of that musical genre as both writer and performer. Like many rock stars, his alcohol and drug use preceded, then accompanied his career. Both in good times and bad, David’s life was soaked with the same booze and cocaine that went with him when he moved from Engl...
Dale C. - Sober Since December 2008 (Encore of Episode 73)
Просмотров 50Месяц назад
When he started making the coffee, his life got better.... Thirteen years ago, Dale started attending one of my home groups, a men’s meeting that I’ve been going to for over 33 years. Since he first stepped into that meeting, his service to the group and individual men has solidified his spot in the middle of our herd. In fact, he says it was when he started making and serving coffee in the mee...
Aileen C. - Sober Since April 2009 (Encore of Episode 30)
Просмотров 532 месяца назад
A tough upbringing punctuated by violence and abuse led to Aileen's early use of drugs and alcohol just to survive home life. Her difficult and dangerous relationships in adulthood were mired by alcoholism of one or both parties. Self-loathing and despair, with ideations of suicide, haunted her at every turn. Indeed, Aileen’s story looked hopeless. In the end, it took in-patient mental health t...
Boots G. - Sober 22 Years
Просмотров 1062 месяца назад
At age 82, Boots had lived most of his life as a moderate or normal drinker, only to find out in his late 50s that his drinking was getting out of control. By the time his family staged an intervention when he was 60, Boots had become a full-blown alcoholic with all of the collateral damage that drinking inflicts upon the unsuspecting. Boots spent four months at an inpatient treatment center fa...
Karen W. - Sober 3 Years
Просмотров 752 месяца назад
On today’s episode, my guest Karen W. shares a chilling story that every long-term alcoholic needs to hear. It’s a story about alcoholism’s insidious ability to derail 28 years of sobriety into a seven-year relapse that nearly ended in suicide. Karen somehow survived that slip to achieve three years of sobriety as of the date of this interview. Her chaotic life of alcoholism and drug addiction ...
Robert B. - Sober 17 Years
Просмотров 882 месяца назад
Originally from Detroit, Robert grew up in what many would consider to be a “normal’ family in which alcohol and dysfunctional behavior were largely absent. Nonetheless, Robert found alcohol at 16 and was immediately lured to its magical properties that relieved much of the anxiety and loneliness he experienced during his teenage years. Though he made it through high school and later college wi...
Al D. - Sober 6 Years (New Episode 155)
Просмотров 743 месяца назад
Al D. came into AA at 60 years of age to get sober after a lifetime of normal or moderate drinking. Punctuated by occasional binges and excessive use of alcohol to quell periods of depression or anxiety, Al was able to manage his consumption of booze and sometimes stop for years at a time. But the disease of alcoholism was just off-stage ready to make its appearance when the script of his life ...
Lee H. - Sober Since January 2013 (Encore of Episode 23)
Просмотров 653 месяца назад
Effective sponsorship has been the key to success in Lee's AA Program. Though sponsorship is often discussed, the role Lee's sponsor has played throughout Lee’s sobriety is especially illuminating in a way I wish every AA newcomer could see. From the time they first met and throughout the careful working of the 12 steps, to the point when Lee started sponsoring others, the importance of having ...
Dow H. - Sober Since May 2008 (Encore of Episode 51)
Просмотров 533 месяца назад
Dow’s revolving-door story of getting sober, slipping, and struggling to get sober again and again should be heard by AAs everywhere. It’s a cautionary tale that shines a bright light on the cunning, baffling, and powerful nature of alcoholism. It’s the disease that’s always lurking just outside the perimeter of AA ready to claim those who let up on this Program of action. In Dow’s case, his fa...
Jim D. - Sober Since December 2005 (Encore of Episode 65)
Просмотров 774 месяца назад
Jim D. - Sober Since December 2005 (Encore of Episode 65)
Marcia G. - Sober Since May 2009 (Encore of Episode 32)
Просмотров 624 месяца назад
Marcia G. - Sober Since May 2009 (Encore of Episode 32)
Randy L. - Sober Since July 1998 (Encore of Episode 39)
Просмотров 1574 месяца назад
Randy L. - Sober Since July 1998 (Encore of Episode 39)
Jim H. - Sober Since July 1996 (Encore of Episode 29)
Просмотров 714 месяца назад
Jim H. - Sober Since July 1996 (Encore of Episode 29)
Diane S. - Sober Since December 1996 (Encore of Episode 40)
Просмотров 975 месяцев назад
Diane S. - Sober Since December 1996 (Encore of Episode 40)
Jim W. - Sober Since June 1989 (Encore of Episode 31)
Просмотров 1696 месяцев назад
Jim W. - Sober Since June 1989 (Encore of Episode 31)
Praise God that George stopped. Many blessings, George! I have 39 years this month, and I'm 60. Thank you for the interview.
Howard: I love your channel. Your interviews and questions are great. I also love the way you treat the guests with respect. Even more impressive is your gentle, soft spoken demeanor which puts your guests at ease during the entire hour. I've been listening to numerous episodes lately in my early sobriety (I'm currently at day 49). You are an inspiration, sir! -Patrick C from Virginia
Cool stuff bro 😎
“Ego is not my amigo” ! Brilliant, thank you Howard and Faisal !!!!!
Thank you for this… ❤
Amazing
Incredible , thank you
Guy, you are practically telling my story. I've been sober for two years now and work at a rehab center in Texas.
I just recently attended a meeting at the Independence club, which john references in this interview as one of his first meetings in the DC area decades ago. Small world!
Great deal Howard, thanks again my brother and friend!!!