Thanks Tom! Great story of recovery and thanks for sharing!

Ive listened to this twice. So relateable ❤ thank you

Love listening to Clarence

Very good. I have a life.

So I needed this. Thank you. Helping me through a rough night. Slowly finding strength to heal.

Thanks Pete. Our stories are very similar. Thanks for sharing your story.

Listened to this a few times.. so funny.. get somet out of it every time.. been an addict all my life.. alcoholic.. some of the best people I know are addicts x love this xxx❤

I cannot honestly say I know what camel's urine tastes like but I have heard that the Twelve Steps is a program for living which demands rigorous honesty.

Well you can't feel pain if you're dead, I'm all for you becoming a rockstar but I don't want you to OD (overdose)😔

This Billy is so f-in funny as he was truly an addict. I can identify with 90% of his antics while using. Thank you NA.

A very powerful and moving speech, well worth the listen. If you feel it starts to entertain you too slowly, hang in there. It gets better and better. Thank you Gary!

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I have over 20 years clean up from drugs and alcohol 17 cigarettes free I this fellowship with home.my new life.

I came into Alanon thru AA, after my sponsor, to his credit, suggested I needed help here as well. We were at an AA meeting one night, and I leaned over to him, and said "They're not doing it right." He immediately suggested I check out some Alanon meetings. He told me that the Alcoholic EGO, is the toughest stuff in the Universe, and left unchecked will ALWAYS resurrect itself. I've since watched that displayed time and time again, in both fellowships. Many, many people have come into the FELLOWSHIP, and found acceptance, love, and understanding. Who WOULDN'T want to stick around for that?? But when it's suggested that they're suffering from a MENTAL ILLNESS, so subtlety Powerful, they find all kinds of reasons why it isn't so. I always say - GREAT! I hope you don't have what I have! Because I suffer from a total loss of sanity - that ONLY a HP can resolve, if I'm willing to go through the process of the 12 steps, in order to discover that Higher Power, which WILL restore me to SANITY, as long as I RIGHTLY relate myself to it. SADLY, this has become the new order. Group therapy has taken over our meetings. There's RARELY any conversation about a Higher Power, or the 12 steps anymore; and that's ashame. I was recently at a meeting, where I was CHASTISED for talking about the 12 steps! I couldn't believe my ears. We need to keep this life-saving movement ALIVE. Our younger generation needs to either GET OUT OF THE WAY, or decide to get with the program.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that same windshield wiper story I would be rich

Thanks for sharing ur experience, strength n hope with us

God bless Clapton and the 12 steps and 12 traditions. I'm 6 years into sobriety...happy 24!

Awesome speaking Chris Raymer!!! He speaks the truth

It’s OK for alcoholics to say they’re alcoholics, but it’s not OK for you to say someone else is in program.

Thank you this helps me

Alanon is NOT about expecting someone else to get better. I've been coming to Alanon since 1990. Back then, there was a primary focus on the 12 steps of recovery to solve MY dilemma. I lacked the Power to make appropriate decisions. I couldn't accept my family just as they were. I withheld love for the alcoholics in my life, believing they were weak. These, and more, dominated my feelings. I needed to exert myself all the more, to get YOU to see where I was right - and YOU were wrong, and NEEDED to be corrected. The 12 steps of recovery, all by themselves, and living the principles therein, was all I needed to begin to recover.

A wonderful qualification from one of our members.

40 days today!!!! 😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉

Great Listen, your welcome ❤️

I sent this to my ALO, addicted loved one, & listened to it & i work a second program of Naronon & this speaker really helped me today, Thank U So Much! A Real Blessing!! ❤❤❤❤

Completee respect for his honesty. Rest in Peace, David.

Straight facts! Lol

Slow downnnnn......

When your a millionaire of coarse your surrenders

What a wonderful message thank you so much and thank you thank you God bless you and M

F***ing beautiful! Thank you Larry😭😂

Sending everyone lotsa love, health, wealth, abundance, miracle, safety, security and healing lights💖💖💖

Thank you, Pete. I needed this today. 🙏🥰

Amazing speaker 🎉❤ thank you

THANK U MILT U GIVEN ME HOPE. I WANNA MEET U IN CLEVELAND I LOVE UR HONESTY SO MUCH.

THANK YOU! Today is a hard day for me and my husband. I have a few years sober under my belt and him, not so much. The way you described meeting and marrying your husband is nearly identical to how I recall our courtship and marriage. Although relapses are so hard, Alanon has helped me so much. It also changed me to simply focus on me, leave when I need to and just focus on me, and instead of "fixing" him, he's done so well on his own, but today's reality is that alcoholism is a disease. One day at a time, listening to this is helping me focus on work and school since with my own sobriety I decided to go back to school and get my masters and then spend time with my mom the rest of the day and just let him BE. Tomorrow, I hope with the strength of whatever higher power, it's a new day and we will go from there. At the end of the day, addiction can impact jobs, finances, relationships but if you have a group of humans trying to do themselves justice like AA and Alalnon, not everyday is perfect, but most days get better. It also helps break the idea of "if I just one thing differently" no that's not how life works. Today can be and it can still be normal for me and tomorrow, I hope I can talk to him, and let him say whether he wants to circle back to recovery or his fellowship, but today is mine and listening to this and laughing and studying and working and texting my mom reminds me, life can still be normal if you just let today be one single, normalish day.

We put stuff in freezer after sprinkling it...THEN we heated up the iron..😅

“If I pass the stone and smoke it does that count as a relapse?” 😂

Not everyone do it to escape reality.. they do it to escape the pain snd care in this reality.... Escaping reality is off grid and doing drugs .. .

I am a codependent and an alcoholic. Oh, well…

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Mary this was so valuable to me today. I have been in 2 alcoholic marriages- the 2nd one he found sobriety and we are now friends. Like many others in the comments- now it’s my son who is doing a battle with alcohol and unfortunately I’d slipped out of the program and made comments about his addiction. Now we’re at war - but not for long. A therapist today reconnected me to my AlAnon family even if only via KZbin- this turned my life and my story around. Thank you for your many faceted story . . .

Alcoholics have to heal the core issues that make us want to drink. Ben can’t do that because he’s a narcissist. He will forever have this battle.

I have listened to Earl H many times through AA, and this does not sound like him (the voice & just the verbage this speaker is using - the story is the same)so I'm kinda confused as to why he sounds so different??

Honesty

Sorry, but this is shit.

Aqesome testimony. I can relate to so many situations he talksd about. What a great testimony with humor andni live thr HOW, and how he stayed clean when life on life terms occured he didnt use. What a blessing we do recover. To all who read and hear this message Be Blessed and know that you are loved❤

I know I'm afraid to have a long term relationship. I never married and have only had 3 relationships. One was 5 years and the two other less than a year. I will ONLY stay in a relationship if I feel safe. I would rather be living under a bridge than with an addict or abuser.

When she started talking about her childhood, I had to fight the tears. I knew my childhood was not ideal. I knew my dad abused my mom (verbally and emotionally...I suspect physically but never saw that), but often thought "well, my childhood was much better than a lot of people's so...." or "I had every physical need and more, so..." But, I have since learned that just my dad being so hateful to my mom and to us sometimes really, really took a toll on me. I love my dad, but I finally lost my idealistic thinking about him. I thought for years of how he was doing better and he is calmer now than when I was a child (I'm 54) but even just 4 years ago (right before my mom died) he was still mean to her. He wasn't doing anything that could get him arrested, but just looking at her with pure hate in his eyes ...criticizing the way she held her fork... being frustrated that she couldn't hear that well, etc I finally told my dad some thoughts. I have told him that "unless someone fits in your narrow box of acceptable behavior you want to criticize them." I've put boundaries in place and told him some of them. I no longer care what he thinks of me. I finally set myself free.

I feel like we lose ourselves while taking care of the addict. I was just barely making it out of depression and then my son becomes an alcoholic. I'm so scared it's going to cause me to stop taking care of my own mental health.