This is a place for recovery audio. I find that recovery talks reach a different part of my brain, and are a good source of recovery.
- Step 1 - "Sobriety Is Untenable" (Clancy I., excerpt, edited) This is one of the greatest explanations I have ever heard for Step 1 - especially the second part about "our lives were unmanageable". After many years in and out of AA, this is how Clancy I.'s sponsor finally got through to him the nature of addiction. It applies to all addicts "of our type."
- Step 1 - "Why Primary Purpose?" (Ken C.)
This is from a Steps workshop from 2008. It's from the SAA Primary Purpose group, which you can read more about here
- Step 1 - "Addiction Doesn't Care What You Think" (Bob D. & Scott L.)
One of my favorite recovery workshops. Listening to this has been life-changing for me. It is for AA, but just about everything applies to Sex & Pornography addiction. This is Step 1 edited from their 10 hour workshop below.
- Step 1 - "Chronic Relapsers" (Mark H. and Joe H.)
This is a talk called "Next Steps – Emotional Sobriety – Part 2 (Step 1, Spiritual Malady examined)"
Mark H. cuts through the baloney to give a powerful explanation of the first Step, and it's importance even after 18 years of sobriety.
Some more of his talks can be found here.
- Step 1 - "Psychoanalysis Doesn't Work" (Clancy I.) (excerpt, edited)
Another great Clancy talk. Clancy is the founder of the largest 12-Step meeting in the world. When he died of natural causes, he was over 50 years sober, and very active in AA for that entire time.
- Step 10 - "A Wrench That Will Fit Any Nut" ("Blind" Dave) (excerpt, edited)
A superb (and hard to find) breakdown of the usefulness to Step 10.
- Lead Share - Native American Story (Don C.) (Outside Link)
A wonderful talk from an indigenous leader about his journey through the 12 Steps.
Don C. is the founder of White Bison, a movement to support native peoples through the 12 Steps and recover from addiction. There is another site for their work here as well.
- SAA Recovery Podcast
- "From Surrender to a Spiritual Awakening" (Bob D. & Scott L.)
One of my favorite recovery workshops. Listening to this has been life-changing for me. It is for AA, but just about everything applies to Sex & Pornography addiction. The longer I work the 12 Steps and go to meetings, the more the 12 Steps make sense across different addictions.
- "Step1 - The Joe and Charlie Tapes"
Joe and Charlie are fun to hear. They broke barriers in early AA as a traveling interracial speaker duo. They have an uncanny ability to make the 12 Step instructions palatable and entertaining.Someone said once that it took the first 100 to write the "Big Book", but it took Joe and Charlie to explain it.
- "You Don't Have A Program" (Chris S.)
Chris S. is a funny New Jersey guy who discovered real recovery doesn't come from meetings and service.
While these are 2 pillars of the Legacies, the real addict cannot stay sober on those alone.From the longer share "Untreated Sobriety is Still Alcoholism."
- Pacifc Group Talks
This is the largest weekly 12 Step meeting in the world. Speakers with 20+ years sobriety share their story each week. These are some of my favorites. - SAA Primary Purpose Audio [SAA Primary Purpose]
Great talks and workshops on the steps, from readings in the AA "Big Book" - Foundation Recordings (Steps 1-3) [SLAA Primary Purpose]
SLAA PPG sponsors share on Steps 1-3 - SAA Audio Library [SAA-Connect]
A large archive of SAA talks, from conferences and more, dating back to 1990 - Living Sober Audio [AA Main]
Audio chapters of the popular recovery book with lots of nuggets of wisdom - AA in the Desert Archive [AA - Outside Link]
Awesome archive of recovery tapes. Includes talks on each of the Steps and archival recordings! - Best AA Speeches [Outside Link]
Some really amazing ones here - easy to download, too! - SAA co-founder Talk [SAA-Connect]
Amazing 1990 talk by Pat C. - shares about the influence of men and women and "it's OK to start over" - AA Talks Archive - WeJoy [Outside Link]
- AA Talks Archive - Stories of Recovery [Outside Link]
- AA Talks (Scott L.) - Pleasant Hill [Outside Link]
Another great archive of AA talks. These are harder to download, but there are some talks I haven't found elsewhere.
