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Amazing show Sunday night!! Thanks for your pure honesty. It is so refreshing.. Getting out of self is #1 in my life. I'm doing the "darndest"to live in step 3. (so funny) I am secretary at 2 meetings a week...So many people have their opinions about how a meeting should be run....God forbid I change it up!! One time I said the "our father" and got slammed."we don't say that at this meeting we say the Responsibility Statement...OK please forgive me....The other time I asked if there were any birthdays to celebrate...Oh we don't say that...What the hell.  I am going to start...

Hi Clay, I just finished reading your Big Book parody. I was a little sceptical at first but after reading the preface I thought it’d be a laugh. I loved it. Between the laughs were a handful of pangs of my own mistakes in the program, but I really felt like it demystified some of the things I’d been a little confused about. I’m ten months in and stuff like calling every day just never felt totally necessary, but people in meetings say I have to, as well as doing 90 in 90 etc. or I would fail. I was...

Hi Clay  Happy New Year hope you and yours are keeping well. Just said I'd send another email and touch base with you having reached the milestone of a years sobriety ! It's such a good feeling having poured my heart and soul (excuse the pun) into my recovery this time around.  Acceptance, Gratitude and a profound love for my fellows in AA are what has sustained me through this difficult but transformative year.  We had a political slogan plastered all over this country years ago " a lot done more to do " that's the way I feel now...

I wanted to share a few things with you. I feel you are an important part of my recovery and that you really care about people. That is very inspiring and I appreciate you.  I was feeling a strange sort of jealousy over another woman in my group. A friend. She started the program 5 months after me, we have the same sponsor, and she did her 5th step a week before me. I have always been firm with the thought that everyone's path is different but I felt I was doing something wrong. I meditated and prayed on it...

So, I want to share the story of how I discovered your podcast,  I just figured it out. When I first quit drinking I went to AA, drunk and a crying mess at my first meeting, tried to get sober, failed, finally had enough and stopped by my 3rd meeting. I fell in love with the program and my group immediately. I had never been to aa nor had any interest. I knew next to nothing and what I thought I knew was negative.  I race boats and travel a ton, mostly Spring-Fall. When I was out of town my...