Chris R. - AA Speaker - "It is OKAY to be EXCITED about recovery!"
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- So many times in an AA meeting, we hear someone who is enthusiastic about recovery get accused of being on a "pink cloud" or that they have a "huge ego" just for showing excitement for a life-changing process. In this tape, Chris R. deals with this misnomer directly and encourages the audience to think about those things in a different light. The grace of our Higher Power is not something we should put a damper on, or hide, because we are afraid someone will mock us or say something that might discount what we are saying. I LOVE how Chris is so direct and sincere. His experience rings true for SO many members of AA and he is an absolute joy to listen to. Prepare to be inspired and motivated! Thank you so much Chris!
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This man motivates me to work the steps and with others. My relationship with god has grown as my sobriety has
My sponsor always says "we're here to comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable" Chris does an amazing job at that!
Bob, space, E. 👍
I love when he says that he is a "grateful recovered" alcoholic. Thank you for carrying the REAL AA message.
That's a fact. Where you from bro?
@@etheravatar7280 Pittsburgh PA
York Pa here! Love the Recovered way of life! Gives new comers hope. Because we DO RECOVER!
Three weeks in AA and my obsession has been removed!!! I'm 180° different than I was 47 days ago. Thank God, Bob and the Big Book.
Today, I have 174 days sober, working the steps (doing Step 9 amends) with my sponsor and being of service through commitments to my homegroup and being in constant in contact with newcomers with less time than me. Chris' presentation moved me to tears and inspired me. Tonight, my sponsor and I will discuss if I'm ready to sponsor. I took Chris' message seriously and understand the need to have one less person in this world suffer from the disease of alcoholism and addiction. Wish me luck.
How is it going YC BC? Have you sponsored? Wishing you all the best!
Hey 👋🏻 praying you're still clean and sober 😎🙏🏻
@kirnpu I am still clean and sober. I've sponsored men and women in the program since I posted. I still have a sponsor. I am grateful.
@Jason Kehoe Thank you. I am clean and sober. The Promises are starting to come true. I am grateful
Chris carries the message like no other! Powerful and passionate. It's refreshing to hear the truth.
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One of Chris's sponsees took me through Steps 1-7 in 6 hours the other night and now I'm ready to do 8-9 which have always been a stumbling block for me. I had a serious spiritual experience but it took two days to sink in. I want MORE no matter what the cost. I thought I knew what I was doing after 22 years in AA but this is the hard stuff and I thought they were nuts.
They are right. You must have a vital spiritual experience NOW and carry it forth NOW to other alcoholics. The 12 steps tell you how. Not me. Thank God for AA Fundamentalists! The people who have blown me off need therapists. The people who have not can't get enough.
OriginalLHB well said
Chris r amazing
Fake sponsors waste your time and cause people pain, I’ve had several who always want to wait to do my fifth step. I’ll die if I wait
Lose looser Sponsors and tell them to go to hell.
Hey speaker, just let go, who cares how others act. You do you yo
Amen.
One of my favorite speakers ever
"We need a few more spiritual mentors and a few less junior therapists" BOOM 🤯
I have just over 90 days without a drink or drug thanks to these 12 steps and the resulting relationship with God. I’m so grateful to be recovered. It starts using the word recovered on the title page. Thank God for ppl like Chris and Myers.
Chris and Myers Raymer’s messages finally sunk in and literally saved me from a 2nd suicide attempt due to what they finally addressed as what was killing me DRY: Spiritual Malady.
I knew them through a Primary Purpose Group in my town.
only the original AA saved me. No watered down middle of the road. Thank you!! 10 years of living in full sobriety- I cannot take the watered down approach. I wish there were more women with a AA message like the Raymers . Carrying message of depth and weight & STAY! I was like Chris: A true bottomed alcoholic. Listen to this message and follow it. Pages 1-164 of AA big book. The SOLUTION. You can get well forever.
I hear you
I love Chris Raymers talks he really has good experience, strength and hope
Got any idea of Chris is still alive? These boys are getting old, I met him in London Ontario I drove up there from Detroit that was about 2007 or 8
Chris R is the master.. period :)
Chris is my new favorite speaker‼️
I know the way out! God bless everyone listening... Thank you Chris
Chris is just what the fellowship needs, to inspire the real message of recovery
My favorite one by Chris. If I didn't meet guys like him in the program I would have died forsure. Thank you God 🙏
God bless you Chris R 🙏🏻💙
FELLOWSHIP OF THE SPIRIT
I'll love recovery
how can I get this man, to come speak in my town! he's on a roll and I think he needs to come visit Maine!
God bless you Chris.
I wandered the 60 thumbs down perhaps it's from people that aren't real alcoholics just like to hang out in our meetings I was in a meeting I haven't been to they was talking about step work I said I get my sponsee through in two weeks you think I committed a mortal sin
Rock on !! Prayer and meditation
beautiful speech Chris...
I can totally understand and relate to what Chris seas, in 20 years I have only found a hand full of real 12 step mittings all the others are sosial gatherings, and anti step mittings..this is sadly to say humen nature olwes trieng to fix what's not broken bi rearranging the program..
Fabulous discussion. I go to Al anon. If the meeting doesn’t talk about the 12 steps I won’t go back.
My grandsponsor carry’s the message so well!! So blessed to be sponsored by a man that you sponsored!!!!
This dude is good
Good stuff
Work the programme how it's set out in the book. Follow the suggestions and you're guaranteed to have a spiritual awakening and finally you're fully recovered from alcoholism. FACT...
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Amen
AMEN
"I've been in the hole too and I (WE) know the way out"
Mens step monday, Big book meeting , as bill see it, AND then a discussion meeting, A home group with speakers that puts me on a ride in a car with others to speak at another meeting , a home group that is active in AA as a whole in area and district. STEPS INSIDE, OF, TRADITIONS going on at the same time. FELLOWSHIP!
MEETING MAKERS MAKE MEETING LIKE BAKERS MAKE DONUTS. MEETING MAKERS ARE THE BEST CHAIR PUTER OUTERS IN AA, THE BEST PAMPHLET RACK PUT OUT WITH PRECISION AND CARE. MEETING MAKERS MAKE COFFEE. MEETING MAKERS MAKE A HOMEGROUP.
“If I say anything that makes you uncomfortable… GOOD.”
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Period. End of statement. 😉
Who would be the jealous drunk that would slight someone for having the pink cloud???
rajashivan1 someone who’s sick.
I hope my “pink cloud” never leaves.! Haha. People have told me that since i have 111 days. But i didn’t get scared or afraid of what they say i keep saying how much i love the program every day.. Everest is on my list
@@robertbalfour4313 this comment made my day!
Awesome!!! FOTS
Michael Blouir what does FOTS mean?
Fellowship of The Spirit
thanks mate
September 18 2023 is my date. Going on almost 5 months.
Great job. Hard work key. My date is 3/1/2024.
Keep trudging!
PEOPLE THAT KNOCK NEW COMERS ABOUT BEING ON A PINK CLOUD are people that are still suffering from UNTREATED ALCOHOLISM -like the ones that wish people a slow recovery ! i have yet to go to a gift shop at a hospital and find a card that say's I WISH YOU A SLOW RECOVERY - ALL of them say wish you a speedy recovery ! the rooms are full of people with untreated alcoholism - people with a lot of years but not a lot of days ! over the 30 yrs i have been going to meetings i see people that just don't drink and go to meetings , talk what GOD has done ! ( removed the obsesion ) yet still stuck in a spiritual kindergarten , most say they work the principles on daily basis , but when the chair person asks ANYONE willing to be a sponsor !!! room full of people and maybe 2 - 4 hands go up on a good day ! if we are not putting our hand up at every meeting - then we are NOT WORKING THE 12 STEPS - and how many actually take a spot check ( step 10 ) and nighty review ! i know i live in whats referred to the recovery capital in the U.S ( SOUTH FLORIDA ) and see zero personality change ! I have spoken to Chris R, many times over the yrs so grateful TO HIS MESSAGE OF AA! his carries THE MESSAGE - OF ORIGINAL UNWATERED DOWN AA ! God bless him ! once formally going through the 12 steps and learning the formula we then live in 10,11 - then 12 if i don't check in my 11th step inventory answering the 10 questions , ask forgiveness where i fell short then meditate and ask GOD on what corrective measures - how can i carry or transmit the message to the new person ! ?????????
Beautiful! 🤗🙏
I've been on a pink cloud for over 25 years. I love the ones who told me that the pink cloud vanished in their lives. They get mad at me I asked them what did you stop doing to make the pink cloud vanish?
So much watered down AA every where. I called it out in a meeting. AA these days is soft! Therapy sessions. That don't work for the real alcoholic addict.
Amen. I got sober in West Palm Bch. in 2001. Fortunately the message was carried to me from the book. God is good all the time and thank God for these steps.