ESH: Chris C from Portland Oregon

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🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Chris C tells his story and does some Q and A on how he sponsors at this Carlsbad Workshop held in Carlsbad California in December of 2005. The questions at the end were dead air so I removed the gaps, but Chris repeats them back so you dont miss anything. This also feels like it ends abruptly but he was done speaking. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1500+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak comedings and workshops in
0:11.2	podcast format.
0:12.2	We're an ad-free podcast, and if you enjoy listening, please help us be self-supporting by visiting
0:17.0	SilverCast.com, look for the donate link, and drop a dollar to into our virtual basket.
0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:29.6	My name is Chris, I'm an alcoholic, and it's February 5th, 1987, and my home group is
0:35.3	the West Portland Group in Portland, Oregon.
0:38.0	And very grateful to do this, what's that?
0:42.4	Okay, can you hear me okay?
0:46.3	My name is Chris, I'm an alcoholic, very grateful to do this.
0:53.2	I don't know if anybody's going to get anything out of what I have to say, but I know that
0:57.0	when I do this and share my experience with the idea that it may help somebody else,
1:00.4	that my spiritual life's in large, and I get something out of it, so for all those
1:04.1	that made it possible for me to come and talk, I appreciate it, and I'm very grateful
1:07.7	for that.
1:09.2	General Way, what it used to be like, what happened and what it's like today.
1:14.4	I drank for 11 years, and for whatever reason, it progressed very rapidly.
1:18.7	I was just a kind of summarized my drinking.
1:22.2	I was arrested 14 times for alcohol-related arrests.
1:27.0	I was in two treatment centers, in detoxes and hospitals, not for alcohol poisoning or
1:33.0	drinking, but from alcohol withdrawal.
1:35.2	I was somebody that, when I came off of alcohol, I had physical symptoms, auditory hallucinations,
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