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RECO12

An Addiction Recovery Lunch-hour Speaker Meeting. A new guest speaker from any 12 Step fellowship who is actively working in recovery, will speak for 25 minutes each week on a specific recovery topic. This will be followed by a moderated 25 minute Q & A session from the live audience. The live speaker meetings will be held on Zoom each Friday at 10:00 AM Pacific time. To attend the live recordings and have the opportunity of asking questions of the guest, please send an email to

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All Episodes

55:14

Joseph O - Page 63 of the Big Book of AA - Meeting 163

RECO12 ·

2023/05/11

Joseph O. grew up on Long Island, New York. He graduated college with degrees in Psychology & Economics, but he would say his real major was Independent Study in Drugs & Behavior. He made a geographic shift to Los Angeles to get away from his drinking companions & start fresh but still made no real investment in Recovery. In LA he maintained some abstinence over 10 months or so but picked up again when a girlfriend moved on. Very rapidly he lost his job, apartment, and car and found

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53:07

Josephine A - Seeing God Through Another's Eyes -...

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2023/05/05

Josephine came into the rooms early 2020 more than 3 years ago after countless failed attempts to stop drinking. Little did Josephine know that putting down the drink was the start of what has been, and is the hardest, AND most rewarding part of her life so far. Josephine started drinking at 11 years old and is a blackout addict by her own words. She has been in and out of the rooms of AA, SLAA, CoDA, CA, DA, Greysheet, and OA. Only when Josephine wanted to die in recovery, feeling desperate and

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60:14

Laura Palmer - Taking the Shame Out of Addiction -...

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2023/04/28

Laura is a mom of 4 who started struggling with a pain pill addiction with her last baby. Her struggle got terrible due to an epidural injury. The next 2 years were chaos and a decline that she didn’t even know was possible. She racked up 5 felonies and jail and prison time and thousands of dollars in fees and penalties. But her Higher Power, Christ saw her out of her addiction and now she gets to help others eliminate the shame in their own addiction story and find @the.road.back. Which, by the

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Sean B - Be Still and Know God - Meeting 160

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2023/04/21

Sean came into the rooms of AA on May 22nd, 2019 after coming to the realization that he was unable to regulate his emotional state without a drink. Hequickly recognized there was a large gap between the expectation of where hethought he would be in life and the reality of where he was. Whilehe was able to stay sober for a year, he half measured the steps and didn’tmake much spiritual progress. On February 27th, 2020, he came into the Spiritual Gangsters fellowship and threw himself into the steps,

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62:41

Evie S - Life Changes Over 35 Years in Recovery -...

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2023/04/14

Evie has been in CoDA for 35 years and has done service throughout most of that time at every level of the Fellowship in three different CoDA communities and at the world level. She found CoDA after many years of therapy and other personal development efforts and believes that CoDA and the 12 steps have given her the most important tools she needed to heal her relationships especially with members of her family of origin. She met the love of her life through recovery and they were together for 31

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61:10

Leila J - Recovery Essentials - Honesty,...

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2023/04/07

Leila is gratefully thriving and prospering in all of her fellowships. It is through rigorously working the 12 steps that she has found peace, serenity and joy in her life today. The 12 steps have given Leila the community, solution and recipe for living that she never knew she always needed. She has started two SLAA meetings which combined have over 300 joining participants every week. She is passionate about being of service and works this program as seriously as she worked her addiction(s). She

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Justin's Mistake Part 2 - Meeting 157 with Anita H

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2023/03/31

Well... I did it again... for the second time in 157 meetings. I forgot to hit record when we started the meeting. I will keep the summary of things below of what she talked about, and this quick recording is me trying to summarize Anita's share as well as taking responsibility for my error. As was brought up in the meeting, "We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it." Well... as much as I currently regret that I messed this up, I trust that soon enough, it can

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55:49

Lenette M - Living Step 10 - Meeting 156

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2023/03/24

Lenette came to SLAA back in 2014. She had gone thru a divorce and her addiction really surfaced shortly after. How her sex and love addiction shows up is that she feels she must be validated and chosen. She ripped thru peoples’ lives and hurt many. Only thinking of herself. Lenette’s codependency shows up when in a relationship. This looks like her micromanaging and pretty much giving up her life for her partner. Lenette started her steps for the first time in 2014 with a sponsor when she

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55:42

Peg O'Connor - Higher and Friendly Powers - Meeting 155

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2023/03/17

Peg O’Connor, Ph.D., is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her training is in moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, addiction studies, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She believes that philosophy helped her to get and remain sober. Avoiding Alcoholics Anonymous for the first 20 years of her sobriety because of the concept of a “higher power,” she is focused on using some of the great canonical thinkers in western philosophy to illuminate dimensions

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62:30

Leo B - Surrender - Meeting 154

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2023/03/10

Leo came to NA in 2018 and has stayed clean for more than 4 years now.He came to the point when he became sick and tired of beingsick and tired. Leo spent a lot of time trying to find the solution, both whileusing and while staying clean.It ended being a long journey searching for the secret recipeof recovery, some sort of Philosophical Stone. He tried to find the perfectsponsor, perfect books, perfect step-working method, and even the perfectreligion. All these attempts eventually failed. After a

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61:04

Buddy C - Powerless But Not Helpless - Meeting 153

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2023/03/03

Buddy C. is an author, businessman, father, podcaster, and a spiritual seeker since his early teens. Buddy made remarkable spiritual progress when he started questioning his belief systems when they did not help with his alcohol addiction. Through 12 Step recovery and open-mindedness to spiritual ideas outside of his comfort zone, Buddy has been sober for over 12 years as of this writing. Buddy recently wrote the award-winning book, Powerless But Not Helpless, a recovery interpretation of the Tao Te

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56:46

Priya P - Facing Fear with Faith - Meeting 152

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2023/02/24

Priya P is a grateful addict who identifies as a codependent, Al-anon and SLAA anorexic and joined the rooms almost three years ago. She has been given a new life through the gift of recovery and is continuously humbled by the journey of fellowship and as more and more is revealed to her in divine timing. Spiritual principles of Faith, Trust in infinite God over our finite selves and acceptance are her current recovery focus. Priya shares beautifully in this meeting about facing fear with

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62:14

Ian S - The 10th Step & Its Promises - Meeting 151

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2023/02/17

Ian is a recovered alcoholic of the sort described in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. He has an abnormal reaction to alcohol—but much more troublesome is the way he reacts to the absence of alcohol. Ian started drinking when he was a teenage boy, but it was in his 30s that he discovered his “utter inability to leave it alone, no matter how great the necessity or wish.” (p.34) This lack of power was not curable by any human power: neither expensive rehabilitation centers, nor the love he has for his

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Ashley S - An Earnest Seeker - Meeting 150

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2023/02/10

Ashley S is a recovered sexaholic/lustaholic and codependent from North Carolina. She found herself emotionally in bondage until she discovered a miracle of healing through the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. By working the 12 Steps as outlined within the Big Book through the power of a loving God and her sponsor’s patient guidance, she recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body. She had a life-changing spiritual awakening, which resulted in a new relationship with her Creator and

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59:08

Dr Anna Lembke - The Role of Dopamine in Addiction -...

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2023/02/03

Dr. Anna Lembke's latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age ofIndulgence was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 25 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of 12-Step recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. To qualify to receive 1 of 6 free copies of Dopamine Nation, be one of the first 6 people to go to https://www.speakpipe.com/reco12shares

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54:50

Dave A - Listening-A Balancing Action - Meeting 148

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2023/01/27

Dave A. from Antigua came into the rooms of AA with the motivation of impressing an ex-girlfriend that he had lost. He quickly realized that he needed recovery for himself and then found the rooms of CODA also. Dave actively works both AA and CODA and has found that he must do both to survive. He will be sharing on the Balancing Action that Listening has become for him in his recovery.Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addiction of all kinds and

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62:44

Nikki M - Exact Instructions of the Big Book -...

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2023/01/20

Nikki is one of the founding members of the Big Book Sponsorship Group, an online Twelve Steps global recovery network - grown out of the Toronto Wednesday SLAA Big Book Meeting - also known as Spiritual Gangsters on WhatsApp. Her program of recovery began by the Grace of God, the Power of 12 Steps and the fellowships of CA, AL-ANON and SLAA. Nikki's story is one of transformation and healing distinguished by her practical application of the direct instructions of the Big Book of Alcoholics

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Tim M - Being Sponsorable and Sponsoring Others -...

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2023/01/13

Born in 1971, Tim M from London Stopped drinking for the first time in 1990. His Last drink was in 1993. Tim spends much of his free time engaged in sponsorship and service. He does what AA asks, and he get the results it promises in the book Alcoholics Anonymous. 100,000 Al-Anon meetings also help. Other than that, he says that he is simply another bozo on the bus. Tim Sponsors a lot and in this meeting he shares how he maintains being sponsorable.Reco12 is an organization with the mission of

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61:46

Robert P - Alone vs. Loneliness in Recovery - Meeting...

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2023/01/06

Robert first came into recovery February 9, 1986 and met a group of people who would change his life. After a short relapse, Robert came back to recovery on April 25 of 1986 and has been clean and sober ever since. Robert's mission is to become more well and to encourage others along the way. Robert also hosts The Recovery Guy Podcast and The Recovery Guy online community, and I was blessed to be a guest on his podcast in 2022.Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing

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60:00

Phil L - Journey In Recovery - Step 12 - Episode 144

RECO12 ·

2022/12/30

Just a quick heads up. This, is one of the most powerful conversations I have had thus far in the Journey in Recovery series. I feel that this is a vital episode to share with young men and young women as parents feel it an appropriate age to do so. But this story starts at the age of 12 and is really relatable to many issues of today. This week we will be talking with Phil about Step 12. Phil’s story starts at 12 years old with exposure to internet pornography and quickly spins out of control to

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