Speaker library
Browse the latest recovery talks, workshops, and speaker shares across the 12-step fellowships.
Tim shares their extensive struggles with alcoholism, including a family history of the disease, numerous institutional stays, and reaching a profound “bottom” on June 23, 1982. They emphasize the importance of identi...
Rose shares their journey from a shy, uncomfortable childhood where alcohol offered a numbing escape, to realizing their powerlessness over the disease at 17. Despite initial intentions to die drunk, they found sobrie...
The speaker emphasizes the urgency of thoroughly working the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) steps, particularly “launching” quickly into Step 4 for “personal house cleaning” and Step 9 for making direct amends. They highli...
The speaker shares a profound personal journey, guided by a friend named Bob, who helped him understand his alcoholism as a response to deep-seated feelings of loneliness and sadness rather than merely a problem with ...
The first speaker emphasizes the importance of daily spiritual progress, seeking God’s will to live in a “new and wonderful world,” and finding profound freedom and peace through making amends, even to a deceased brot...
The speaker describes her early sobriety, including difficulties with family trust, developing basic life skills, and navigating legal issues incurred even when “dry”. She shares her discovery of spiritual guidance th...
This talk chronicles the speaker’s descent into alcoholism, beginning in her early teens with a spiritual awakening that drinking provided. She details the escalating consequences of her addiction, including legal tro...
The speaker defines true sobriety as living comfortably, peacefully, and joyously with oneself, viewing alcoholism as a “living problem” that requires rigorous self-honesty and the 12 steps, which he illustrates with ...
The first speaker shares her harrowing journey through early alcoholism, marked by blackouts, being disowned by her mother, and eventually finding sobriety through 12-step meetings and women’s fellowship. The second s...
Donna D. shares her journey in Al-Anon, focusing on the Second Step, defining insanity by Einstein’s famous quote, and her process of overcoming feelings of unworthiness by accepting the group as her higher power and ...