E177: Why Do We Still Read the Big Book?

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Send us a text You ever wonder why the old timer with 30 years of sobriety still reads the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous over and over and over again? Didn't they have reading comprehension and could get it the first time? We talk about it this week and discuss how we treat the Big Book of AA as a text book and something to aways learn from. And we discuss how re-reading helps the new guy or gal. Support the show 📫 Get more honest conversations about sobriety delive...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:00.9	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.2	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day.
0:15.5	Now we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:23.1	You're not alone. This is the sober friends podcast. One of the meetings that Steve and I go to consistently is on Monday night,
0:30.7	and the meeting is a big book meeting. If you're new to recovery, you don't know a lot about A.A. There are different
0:39.4	types of meetings. There's open meetings, closed meetings, closed meetings means it should just be
0:44.0	people who are looking to give up alcohol or have done so. They have a desire to stop drinking.
0:49.7	Speaker meetings, literature meetings, and the one that we go to is a big book meeting where you go
0:55.7	around the room. The format is different depending on where you go. Generally, it's we'll go through
1:01.9	a chapter. Read a couple paragraphs and then we have a discussion. You might think,
1:08.3	how long can you go to a meeting like this?
1:12.9	And for me, it's been over 10 years.
1:17.9	10 years of going through this book over and over and over and over and over and over again.
1:21.7	And you may think, you must be really bad at this.
1:22.7	Right.
1:27.3	If you've got to read this damn book that many times and then you take it home and then you go to joe
1:28.2	and charlie's study groups what the hell is wrong with you that you know i don't i don't pick up a
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