Speaker library
Browse the latest recovery talks, workshops, and speaker shares across the 12-step fellowships.
Angie, an alcoholic, shares their twenty-year sobriety journey, reflecting on childhood experiences with their family, their mother’s struggles with mental illness, and moving from a simple country life to the city. D...
This meeting celebrates the 25th anniversary of AA Group 6125 Trees in Kansas City, highlighting its significance as the second group in Missouri and a catalyst for AA’s growth in the surrounding regions. Speakers ref...
Joe K shares their journey through alcoholism, recounting how alcohol initially provided a “psychic change” and a sense of belonging, masking a deep-seated “terminal sense of lack.” After achieving sobriety, a period ...
Jack, an alcoholic, introduces the meeting by explaining that Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship where individuals share experiences, strength, and hope to solve common problems and help others achieve sobriety. The...
Jim W, an alcoholic with over twenty-eight years of sobriety, shares their powerful journey of recovery, reflecting on the devastating impact of alcohol on their family, including a son in a nursing home due to drunk ...
Trevor shares his 16-year struggle with alcoholism, hitting a point of total despair on Australia Day 1977, and finding Alcoholics Anonymous through a friend, which led to over five years of sobriety. His critical tur...
Nancy introduces themselves as an alcoholic, glad to share their experience at the 22nd roundup, emphasizing their role as a “share” rather than a speaker or teller. They describe their 32 years of sobriety, highlight...
Jessica shares their sobriety journey, highlighting their date of June 10, 2005, and the impact of generational alcoholism within their family, including their great-grandfather, uncle, and struggling cousin. They rec...
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...