AA speaker Dr. Mike presents a Big Book study podcast and thoughts on recovery

BIG BOOK LECTURES AND DISCUSSION

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BIG BOOK STUDY RECORDINGS

FULL ARCHIVE

Below you will find all of the recordings made by Dr. Mike based on a "Experience the Big Book" study.  Find the one(s) you want and click "Listen here" to hear them on your computer.

This is the full archive, listed by date of publication - in other words, the earliest ones appear first.

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Saturday – Ep: 437 – Into Action – Step 11 – Page 86 – Morning Prayer – Meditation when facing indecision – How to know and do the next right thing!

May 25, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 436 – Into Action – Step 11 – Page 86 – Instruction for the nightly review and upon awakening! Improving our conscious contact with God! with God

May 22, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 435 – Into Action – Pages 84-6 – Review of Step 10 and Introduction to Step 11

May 18, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 434 – Into Action – Step 10 – Page 85 – We have become God Conscious!

May 15, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 433 – Into Action – Step 10 – Pages 84-5 – The recovered promises!

May 9, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 432 – Into Action – Step 10 – We have entered the world of the spirit! Instructions on staying there! Wadat! Watch Ask Discuss Amend Turn!

May 6, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 431 – Into Action – Page 82-84 – “The 9th Step Promises” – How I see them today!

May 2, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 430 – Into Action – Pages 80-83 – Step 9 – The alcoholic is like a tornado – Long period of reconstruction ahead – Ask God to show me the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness, and love – The spiritual life is not a theory we have to live it!

Apr 29, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 429 – Into Action – Pages 76-80 – Step 9 – What is my real purpose in AA? How do I lose fear of people? What are the specific suggestions on how to make amends? What should be my attitude when I go out to sweep away the debris I accumulated when I trying to live on self will? ,

Apr 26, 2023

Also a brief look at how I see the spiritual axium today … any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 428 – Into Action – Pages 76-77 – Step 8 – Faith without works is dead! Am I completely willing to clean up the past? How free do I want to be? Am I willing to go to any lengths for victory over alcohol?

Apr 23, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 427 – Into Action – Page 76 – Step 6 and 7 – Part 2 – How practicing these steps have been life changing for me!

Apr 19, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 426 – Into Action – Page 76 – Step 6 and 7 – Part 1 – The steps of change! How to practice God’s character and not my character defects!

Apr 16, 2023

How do I drop my rock? Practicing 6 and 7 is the key for me to obtain emotional sobriety… any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 425 – Into Action – Step 5 – Page 75 – The beginning of a spiritual experience – The fifth step results or promises

Apr 12, 2023

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Saturday – Ep:424 – Into Action – Step 5 – Part 2 – Pages 73-75 – We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character, every dark cranny of our past!

Apr 9, 2023
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Saturday – Ep 423 – Into Action – Step 5 – Part 1 – Pages 72-3 – What are we trying to accomplish with this step?

Apr 6, 2023
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Sat – Ep_ 422 – How it Works – Summary of the 4th step instructions – Results and Promises!

Apr 2, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 421 – How it Works – Pages 68-70 – 4th Step – Now about Sex – Sex Inventory Instructions

Mar 29, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 420 – Acceptance was the Answer – Pages 407-420 – Part 2 – Powerful description of the principles of recovery!

Mar 25, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 419 – Acceptance was the Answer – Part 1 – So much wisdom in this story – It has been a great help to me thru the years

Mar 21, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 418- Step 4 – Fear Inventory – The second step proposition exercise on fear ( God is everything or else he is nothing what is our choice to be?) – Part 2 – see pdf under resources

Mar 19, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 417 – Step 4 – Fear Inventory – The second step proposition exercise on fear ( God is everything or He is nothing what is our choice to be?) – Part 1- pdf under resources

Mar 16, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 416 – How it Works – Pages 67-8 – 4th step Inventory Instructions on Fear – Part 2 -Freedom from Fear

Mar 12, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 415 – How it Works – Pages 67-8 – 4th step instructions on fear inventory – Part1

Mar 9, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 414 – The Spiritual Checklist and the St. Francis Prayer – Essential tools for living the spiritual life!

Mar 6, 2023

Find the spiritual checklist on site under resources for recovery

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Saturday – Ep: 413 – How it Works – Pages 64-7 – Instructions for resentment inventory – Part 4 – How we get free from the from bondage to self!

Mar 3, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 412 – How it Works – Pages 63-7 – 4th step instructions in the book Alcoholics Anonymous – resentment inventory part 3 – instructions for freedom from anger

Feb 27, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 411 – How it Works – Pages 63-7 – 4th step instructions in the book Alcoholics Anonymous – resentment inventory part 2

Feb 22, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 410 – How it Works – The 4th step instructions in the book Alcoholics Anonymous – Resentment Inventory – Part 1

Feb 15, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 409 – How it Works – Step 4 – The 4th Step Instructions in the book Alcoholic Anonymous – Purpose of the fourth step – Pages 63-4

Feb 10, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 408 – How it Works – Pages 62-3 -Step 3 – The Third Step Prayer!

Feb 2, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 407 – How it Works – Pages 61-63 – Step 3 – Part 2 – What is the root of my troubles? What is the how and why of step 3? What is my contract with God?

Jan 30, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 406 – How it Works – Pages 60-3 – Step 3 – Part 1

Jan 27, 2023

Why do we need to be convinced that a life run on self will can never be successful? What does it look like? What are our basic troubles?

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Saturday – Ep: 405 – How it Works – Page 60 – The ABC’s – A detailed review of these 3 powerful statements

Jan 23, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 404 – How it Works – Page 59 – AA has One Program of Recovery – The 12 Steps

Jan 19, 2023

I review the 12 steps and how they tie together to produce a psychic change -any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 403 – How it Works – Pages 58-9 – Willing to go to any length? Let go of all my ideas? Am I at the turning point?

Jan 16, 2023
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Saturday – Ep: 402 – How it Works- Page 58 – We look at the first paragraph in how it works – A few sentences but a powerful message!

Jan 5, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 401 – We Agnostics – Pages 53-57 – When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us! Powerful last few pages of this remarkable chapter!

Jan 2, 2023

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Saturday – Ep: 400 – We Agnostics – Pages 53-55 – Where is the fundamental idea of God? How do we find the Great Reality?

Dec 31, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 399 – We Agnostics – Pages 50-53 – The Dominoes of Change! Willingness – Believe – Decide – Act – Change!

Dec 27, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 398 – We Agnostics – Pages 46-9 – The Second Step in the big book!

Dec 23, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 397 – We Agnostics – Pages 45-6 – We found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him!

Dec 20, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 396 – We Agnostics – Pages 44-5 – Alcoholism is an illness only a spiritual experience can conquer!

Dec 17, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 395 – More about Alcoholism – The Jaywalker – Pages 37-39 – Powerful description of step1 and the insanity of alcoholism

Dec 14, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 394 – More about Alcoholism – Pages 39-43 – A man called Fred – Once again no human power can relieve my alcoholism – My defense must come from God!

Dec 12, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 393 – Step 4 Sex Inventory Page 69-70 – Step 4 Promises Page 69-70

Dec 10, 2022

instructions for the sex inventory then we look at the promises as a result of the work done in step 4

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Saturday – Ep: 392 – How it Works – Pages 63-64 – Step 4 – Purpose of the personal inventory – Why do we have to do it? – Review of the first three steps and how they are vital and crucial but without step 4 nothing changes

Dec 8, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 391 – More about Alcoholism – Pages 34-7 -A man called Jim – Powerful description of the alcoholic

Dec 6, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 390 – More about Alcoholism – p 33-35 – Step 1 – Powerless over alcohol – The queer mental twist before the first drink

Dec 4, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 389 – Step 12 – Sponsorship – Joe Mcq from Joe and Charlie shares his thoughts – Powerful – From Carry this Message

Dec 2, 2022

This episode is about sponsorship. We cover the chapter in Carry this Message that has some excellent information on this topic. Joe Mcq gives his thoughts on this important and maybe misunderstood topic that I believe will be very helpful to listeners.

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Saturday – Ep: 388 – Sponsorship – AA History – Is AA effectively carrying the message? From Carry this Message chapter 2

Nov 30, 2022

This episode has further information on the synchronicity of events that led to the formation of AA. Then we finish the look at passing on this special gift that we have been given. How effectively is AA carrying the message today? The first two chapters in Carry this Message are completed in this episode.

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Saturday – Ep: 387 – Passing on a Special Gift – From Carry this message

Nov 28, 2022

Is AA today carrying this message? How effective are the meetings you attend passing on this special gift? How has the fellowship moved away from the program? This book is a powerful tool in sponsorship and how to work the steps. It follows the big book. Joe Mcq started the Joe and Charlie big book…

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Saturday – Ep: 386 – More about Alcoholism – Pages 30-33 – Once an Alcoholic always an Alcoholic

Nov 26, 2022

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Saturdays – Ep: 385 – Special Episode – Dr. Mike’s Story- Memorial Group – June 3, 2018

Nov 24, 2022

I spoke at the memorial Saturday night speaker meeting. Tried to carry the message that God has done and can do for me what I could never do for myself. My only goal is always to do his work well and let him demonstrate through me what he can do. Welcome any thoughts mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturdays – Ep: 384 – Step 6 and 7 – Drop the Rock – Removing our character defects – Part 3

Nov 22, 2022

I can’t keep practicing my character defects and expect God to remove them!

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Saturdays – Ep: 383 – Step 6 and Step 7 – Drop the Rock – Removing our character defects – Part 2

Nov 20, 2022

Continue to look at the steps that transform me and the way I think and react to life.

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Saturdays – Ep: 382 – Steps 6 and 7 – Drop the Rock – Removing our character defects – Part 1

Nov 17, 2022

I continue our study of how steps 6 and 7 are the actions change me. How I approach them in initially and then apply them continuously for the rest of my life. My emotional sobriety is directly proportional to how well I apply these steps in my life.

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Saturday – Ep: 381- There is a Solution – Powerful ending Pages 28-9 – More about Alcoholism – Page 30 – The first step in recovery, not the program – What must I fully concede?

Nov 14, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 380 – There is a Solution – Pages 29-30 – Desperation of a drowning man – The flimsy reed becomes the powerful hand of God

Nov 11, 2022
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Saturdays – Ep: 379 – Step 6 and Step 7 instructions page 76 and review of 5th step promises and intro to Drop the Rock

Nov 9, 2022

Discuss the instructions on step 6 and 7 on page 76.  Then review the 5th step promises. We are going to look at the introduction to step 6-7 in Drop the Rock including the story about dropping the rock.

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Saturday – Ep: 378 – There is a Solution – Pages 26-8 – Roland Hazzard receives the solution from Dr. Karl Jung – AA hx – Roland to Ebby to Bill to Dr. Bob to you today!

Nov 7, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 377 – There is a Solution – Page 25 – Spiritual Experience Pages 567-8 – The solution is described on these pages!

Nov 4, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 376 – There is a Solution – Pages 22-24 – I have no defense against alcohol! My defense must come from God!

Nov 1, 2022

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Saturdays – Ep: 375 – AA History – The Original Manuscript of the Book that started it all

Oct 29, 2022

Lois Wilson had the original manuscript that went to the printer in 1939.  It had the corrections penciled in and notations and comments written by bill and others. It is a powerful historical document and reflects the thinking of the authors and the thought that went into each word. It was auctioned in 2010 and…

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Saturday – Ep: 374 – There is a Solution – Pages 19-23 – The disease centers in the mind!

Oct 27, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 373 – AA History – A Synchronicity of Events – The Hand of God – Carry this message

Oct 25, 2022

The people and events which came together for the message of AA to come to us today.

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Saturday – Ep: 372 – AA History – Synchronicity of Events – A look at what is the message and are we carrying it today? Carry this message

Oct 25, 2022

Excellent review of the events and people that God brought together to give us this message of hope. Is the fellowship today carrying the original message?

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Saturday – Ep: 371 – A Vision for You – Conclusion of the textbook of recovery – Powerful!

Oct 24, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 370 – There is a Solution – Pages 17-19 – Alcoholism is an illness that annihilates all the things worthwhile in life – How should we present what has been so freely given to us? We have set forth to publish an anonymous volume describing the problem, the solution, and the program of recovery

Oct 19, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 369 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 8 – Steps 8 and 9

Oct 16, 2022

A look at how steps 8 and 9 put our lives in order. any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 368 – A Vision for You – Pages 158-161 – AA History – AA in the beginning

Oct 13, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 367 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 7 – How Steps 5,6, and 7 contribute to our spiritual awakening

Oct 9, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 366 – A Vision for You – Pages 154-158 – Bill W and Dr. Bob carry the message to AA no. 3 and to us today

Oct 6, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 365 – A Vision for You – Pages 153-156 – Bill W meets Dr. Bob – One Alcoholic working with another Alcoholic – AA is born

Oct 3, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 364 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 6 – How does the fourth step make us spiritually awake? What are the results of the fourth step?

Sep 30, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 363 – Beginning Experience the Big Book for 15th year – There is a Solution – Page 17 – The common peril and the cement that binds us

Sep 27, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 362 – Bill’s Story – Pages 13-16 – Bill W has a spiritual experience and begins carrying the message that reaches us today

Sep 24, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 361 – A Vision for You – Pages 151-153 – This chapter is a powerful conclusion to this textbook on the directions on how to recover from a hopeless condition of mind and body

Sep 21, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 360 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 5 – How do I achieve it and then keep it? What is the role of the 4th step in this process?

Sep 18, 2022

The resentment inventory unlocks the door to go from living in darkness to walk in the light

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Saturday – Ep: 359 – Bill’s Story – Pages 12-14 – Bill W in Towns Hospital – I believe these pages are essential for all alcoholics to read and understand – The whole deal!

Sep 15, 2022

Bill W works the steps and has a spiritual experience …. 

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Saturday – Ep: 358 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 4 – What does it mean? How do we obtain it? How do we get it? How do we keep it?

Sep 12, 2022

The result of the steps is the spiritual awakening. Going through what the book tells us about it. Why we need it and how it is manifest in our life and how do i obtain it and keep it. any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 357 – To Employers – What is required in step 1 and how do you carry the message in step 12?

Sep 10, 2022

This chapter is excellent. I believe it has powerful information on step 1 and step 12.

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Saturday – Ep: 356 – Bill’s Story – Pages 8-12 – Bill W and Ebby T in Bill’s Kitchen – The Hand of God – The message to us today!

Sep 7, 2022

Bill changes his mind and melts the icy intellectual mountain in which he had lived and stood in the sunlight at last

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Saturday – Ep: 355 – To Employers – Pages 136-142 – One of the ” lost chapters” – Practicing spiritual principles with others especially in the workplace

Sep 5, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 354 – Bill’s Story – Step 1 – Pages 4-8 – The disease progression of alcoholism – Bill W admits complete defeat!

Sep 2, 2022

These 4 pages should be understood by every alcoholic. Is his experience true for me?

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Saturday – Ep – 353 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 3 – What is it? How do we get it? How do we keep it?

Aug 30, 2022
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Saturday – Ep: 352 – The Family Afterward – Part 4 – Pages 130-135 – First Things First – Live and Let Live – Easy Does It

Aug 27, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 351 – Spiritual Experience or Spiritual Awakening – Part 2 – What is it? How is it manifested in our lives? What does the big book tell us about getting it and keeping it?

Aug 24, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 350 – Bills Story – Part 1 – Pages 1-4 – A message of hope – How we go from a hopeless condition of mind and body to a life of service to God and others!

Aug 21, 2022

I don’t  know how many times I have gone through these pages but more and more I see the hand of God in this powerful message! any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 349 – Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Experience – What does this mean? A look at the result of the steps – Part 1

Aug 19, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 348 – Drs. Opinion – Part 3 – xxxix to xxxii – Powerful words

Aug 16, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 347 – The Family Afterward – Part 2 – Pages 127-130 – Spiritual principles to practice in all our affairs

Aug 13, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 346 – AA History – Where did the big book come from and AA in the beginning

Aug 11, 2022

Apologize for the sound. I look at how the book was put together and the books used in the writing of it . Also the spiritual principles and AA in the beginning.

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Saturday – Ep: 345 – Drs. Opinion – Part 2 – What is the problem and solution? Pages xxviii-xxix

Aug 9, 2022

The Dr. in these 2 pages describes the disease of alcoholism and his conception of what is required for successful treatment

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Saturday – Ep: 344 – The Family Afterward – Practicing the principles in all our affairs – Pages -122-7

Aug 5, 2022

 Relationships at home after the alcoholic is sober and trying to live a spiritual life. Spiritual principles to guide all those involved.

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Saturday – Ep: 343 – Going from the not drinking book to the God book – Pages 44-5

Aug 3, 2022

The transition from step 1 to becoming a God seeker

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Saturday – Ep: 342 – Drs. Opinion – Step 1 – Part 1

Aug 1, 2022

The disease of alcoholism described by Dr. Silkworth in 1939. Any comments mhurwitz50@gmail.com

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Saturday – Ep: 341 – Step1 – Part 3 – Description of the alcoholic – The Jaywalker – Pages 37- 39

Jul 30, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 340 – Step1 – Part 2 – The description of the alcoholic – The insanity of the first drink – A man called Jim – Pages 34-37

Jul 28, 2022

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Saturday – Ep: 339 – Step1 – Description of the Alcoholic – What makes me powerless over alcohol? Part 1

Jul 26, 2022

A look at step 1 using information presented in chapter more about alcoholism …

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Saturday – Ep: 338 – Step 2 in the Big Book – Come to Believe – We Agnostics – Pages 45-47

Jul 24, 2022
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