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basket. We hope you enjoyed the podcast. Have a great day. Hi, and Casey, I'm an alcoholic.

And it's through a loving God, strong sponsorship, the 12 steps and traditions as outlined in

the big book, Alcoholics Anonymous, working with others that I haven't found that necessary take your drink or drug since August 17th,

1996, and for that I'm not truly grateful enough.

So I like to thank Chris for having me come up here,

and it's always an honor to come speak on, speak in general, to speak on a topic,

because, sorry, like for me, I have to go back into my textbook, which is the big

book of Alcoholics Anonymous, and I start looking, you know, I start reading, working with

others and a vision for you and with the topic of mine, creating the fellowship I crave.

And then I talk to people who I use in my sponsorship line, or not my sponsorship line, but how I use for guidance.

You know, I have my sponsor.

I have other women, some men in the program who I like their sobriety, their like-minded individuals like myself, who believe in the tall steps in the power of God.

And I ask them, like, what did that mean to them?

And then I take those concepts.

I pray on them. I meditate. I read this big book again with those thoughts on mind.

Because, like, what the set-aside prayer says to me is because I want to have a new experience with these things in the book.

Like, I want to have a new experience with everything in this book.

And, you know, like, I constantly have to seek a spiritual experience.

So, like, I always think I'm thankful for topics like this.

So it helps me to, you know, develop myself.

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