Bob D. - AA Speaker - "A Shining Example of Recovery from Alcoholism"
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- The best AA speaker I have ever heard, Bob D., shares his story in a touching and thought-provoking way. I love how he masterfully articulates what it is like to suffer from alcoholism and explains the redemption of the 12 Steps. If you haven't heard Bob D. tell his story, you are in for such a treat! If you have, this is one of my top 3 recordings of him and I get something new from it every time I listen.
From the book Alcoholics Anonymous: "In spite of the great increase in the size and span of this Fellowship, at its core it remains simple and personal. Each day, somewhere in the world, recovery begins when one alcoholic talks with another alcoholic, sharing experience, strength, and hope."
What is the Twelve Step Model? How is it a "treatment for alcoholism" or "alcohol abuse?"
From Wikipedia: "A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles (accepted by members as 'spiritual principles,' based on the approved literature) outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939. The method was then adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs. Twelve-step methods have been adopted to address a wide range of substance-abuse and dependency problems."
You can find out more at: www.aa.org - Alcoholics Anonymous Official Site (And as should be blatantly obvious, we are in no way affiliated with them or any other 12 step program. We are just looking to provide hope to those suffering from alcoholism or addiction.)
"Addiction treatment" WORKS! There is addiction help out there and "addiction recovery" is possible. If you are battling "alcohol addiction" there are people who know EXACTLY what it is like!
It is important to note there are several ways for one to address his or her "alcohol abuse treatment." "Substance abuse" is a very serious condition. Many need inpatient stays or counseling. The importance and purpose of this video, and all our other videos, is to show that recovery IS possible and to give hope to those who are struggling with substance abuse issues. Help IS out there! :)
From the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous: "Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny."
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I never thought I had a drinking problem, but on Tuesday evening, I made the worst decision. I added vodka to my Diet Coke, on my way home from work.
I drive 45 miles, each direction, to work or home. I made it almost all the way and began swerving 1/2 mile from home. I took the turn too wide and wiped out a decorative wall. I wasn’t hurt and thank GOD no one else was involved. I was arrested, for the first time in my life, and charged with OUI. I spent the night in jail. I’m horrified, embarrassed, guilt ridden, and depressed. Your videos have been enlightening and I’ll attend my first meeting today.
Checking in with you.. Hope you are well
Hope things are going good
2nd day sober, I felt pretty sick in the evening tomorrow I’m going to the 7 pm AA meeting. This video helps me so much.
did you keep going
One of the best things the court did was encourage me to watch these on CZcams
I am 7 days sober and needed this thank you!
William vanlierop the most sobriety I've had was 6 MO in 2015 then a few months tops in 2016 and now I currently have 10 days. I just keep coming back and tonight I'm listening to this to help me stay on the right path!
22 years sober and I needed this too. Keep coming back.
Stay strong
How’s the journey today asthma?
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So grateful I found these podcasts. I relapsed after I lost my husband, my dad and my brother. It’s been a really long journey. I drank for a year and knew I’d be back in the the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous. I couldn’t believe that I relapsed. I had been sober for 34 years and blew it all. I couldn’t even drink enough to find that elusive feeling of drinking that I used to feel. I did some damage to my kids and I’ve been in counseling for a while now. I’m still getting through the emotional part, the pain I felt, I was immobile from those events. I’m trying to enjoy my home and all the chores I have to do. I have a wonderful sponsor that I speak to everyday. I’m going to a lot of meetings and functions. That helps. I’m all alone in this house now and I get lonely. I’m learning to reach out to people in the rooms. ❤
Keep stepping, God loves you!!!
You are wonderful! Your strength is a shining star. Cannot pick the right words. Much love for you, from Lithuania.
Keep going. One day at a time!
34 years .. jesus was 34 when he was reborn xx liverpool England loves you x
Day one is just as impressive as 34 years. Keep your head up.
Over 6 and a half years sober. Absolutely identify with Bob's story. I needed to hear this.
I have been sober for over 16000 days and still need AA as much as ever. That being Said My Life is Wonderful Gary AUSTRALIA.
How are you paying AA back for what it's given you??
I'm off liquor 16 werks😊
Congratulations still one day by day sponsor people and use ure experience to help other hopeless alcoholics, bless u
Congrats on 43yr...
These tapes are my morning and nightly listens now. So grateful for Bob and others that found their way. Just celebrated three years and this is the first time I’ve worked the program and found freedom. God is so Good.
Feb 6, 1994 was my last drink! I’m grateful I don’t have to drink today. Thanks for your message Bob.
One day at a time
I totally can identify with everything he said I know I am an alcoholic and I am powerless over my drinking and my thinking. I can never repay for the gift I have been so freely given I owe God and A.A. The 12 step program of recovery completely changes my life. 1 year 2 months 1 day. But I live 1 day at a time today.
Im almost 60 days sober. I spent my whole life knowing there was something wrong with me Ive never fit in never felt good about myself as a kid i would daydream about myself impressing people and Ive read self help books watched Ted talks but I could never fix myself. Ive realized that my problem is that i cannot rely on me to fix me because I dont know what the problem is. This is my favorite share
I totally relate to this I always believed something was wrong with me I never fit in never felt good about myself neither. Doesn't fit with or mix with people sober. Funny kind of loneliness I can never feel part of. Even amongst family members I don't fit in.
Bob Darrall's audio's have literally...saved my life. I'm so grateful.
Pink Barracuda thanks for feeling the same way. I’m scared out of my wits.
Yes!
I've been alcoholic since the first time I drank. I turned up a fresh bottle of Boones Farm and drained in one gulp. Then the Marine Corps where drinking is sport.... I'm not even 24hrs sober but the fights on. I refuse to continue killing myself slowly. This helps.
Former Marine , legal drinking camp Pendleton at 18 yrs old nco club little did I know I had been drinking as an alcoholic from my first sip at a Christmas party at 12 . And used it all including adrenaline. I went to a meeting last night and heard the the raw deadly truth of my disease .woke this morning at 3:30 and am gearing up for battle to stay sober today . Thanks Bob for the motivation and Dave green trust your tools , go to meetings call your sponser and work a step . Service work helps me get out of my head .
Donald Williams I just got my 30 day chip Tuesday! I know I'm in for a lifelong battle, but it feels great to be sober and have the tools/support to stay sober.
Since I read you post I've hit 3 to 4 meeting a week and wouldn't you know it my father has gone to 4 of them in the last 21 days ...
Funny how my higher power works in my life and my program !!! .
Good job on your 30 days.
How are you doing ???
Donald Williams 90 day chip in hand!! AA is saving my life! My Grandson will be staying with me for a week next month!!!
Edit: keep fighting, alchohol will not destroy us!! Thanks for the comment!
Yes first thing I ever drank was boones farm 10 yrs old at a friend's house smfh
I need AA. I am totally new. So scared. Thanks for sharing. So sincere, honest, and what I needed to here now. I just looked up where meetings are in my new area.
Julie Hahn I know this is a year old don't be scared just look up aa meetings online and people are really nice and you don't have to speak either it's really entertaining and keeps me sober
keep coming back it works if you work it
What a sincere and honest statement. Thank you for sharing.
Same here!
Julie, work the 12 steps of AA and your life will change beyond your wildest dreams
Thank you Bob. after 18 years I went back out I often wish I hadn't .I think I may be ready to come back to the rooms
How are you??
For the first 25 minutes I thought Bob was pretty messed up and that I was pretty normal. After 25 minutes I realized I am Bob. I wept.
Me too
2 years sober thanks to this program. Keep coming back its the best thing that will ever happen to you
Every time bob talks he cuts me open and everything I could not put in words just spills out.he tells my story in every talk he gives he saved my life
Two months out of a 23 day program. I've been sober almost three months. I was having a tough time tonight. thanks
How are you today?
2 months sober today. Going strong
Great talk bob.d sober 14 months now, one day at a time
Awesome!!! Congrats keep up the good work!!
How are you today ?
BOB D. I've never related to someone I dont know as much as I did hearing your testimony today. It literally made me cried. Thank you 💓
one day at a time gd bless x
Hi I'm 1 day sober through the grace of God. Thanks to beautiful members in the fellowship I got through the day a very kind member drove me to a meeting 🙏! I've just thrown out all around my house! God willing my HP! Blessings you you all! ✌️
Hi, how are you getting on now?
23 years sober! The message is interpreted with a higher power of my understanding and that has been my experience through good sponsorship. No circuit speakers
Routine is the key. Think don't drink. Drink water. Three meals a day. You got this. Keep it simple man. Vitamans. Go to work. Thirty days in recovery. Hell yeah. Awesome message
True Alcoholics don’t have the power to do that themselves. It takes a Higher Power.
@@katiechristine9428 “don’t drink and go to meetings” almost killed me
@dont138 she didn't say "don't drink and go to meetings" she said real alcoholics need a higher power! Which they do! alongside the 12 steps,service and fellowship ....
4th day sober. I'm still shaking and crying. The guilt and pain is so raw and so strong! I want to meet and hug this man so bad. He's telling his life and I never related to someone this much.
I made it my first 24 hours... again. I just want serve others who are going through this too. I am perusing my degree now so that I can make meaning out of my past. I can completely relate to what he said about being trapped in your thoughts.
I am 8 days in, young alcoholic I started drinking with my abusive dad who was a drunk early on and it grew on me, we need dedicate r lives to the higher power, how have you been?
I'm from Colombia, and I have been sober for over for 6 years and 11 months, and this tape really got me
This is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Thank you for sharing.
Celebrate Recovery I have five months sober. thank you God
This is like ..the best story ✝️✝️✝️❤️❤️❤️
I'm crying because listening to him is like seeing myself his story and feelings are so much like me. Is he me? I felt very alone. I hurt a lot of people with my bad behavior by drinking they would forgive me and the cycle repeated. I kept thinking next time is different but it never is. I feel like I'm nothing without my beer and completely worthless and faulty no matter what I do. Day 4 sober, 2nd meeting tonight.
Thank you Bob D. You articulate the way I've felt for years.
Anthony Inzerilli can you help me?
This has helped me more than I can explain
This platform is a savior to those who could not make it out to a meeting for whatever reason
Day 673 after many ins and outs like our speaker
So many similarities in our stories
Going back to our using to our recovery and what it finally took, the solution stopped working.
For me my last drink on 8.23.21 didn't work, I sat at that bar knowing I was at that jumping-off point, it took what it took
God stepped in that day and I had a spiritual experience 🙏 ✨️
happy 24 hours
He was my grand sponsor while I lived in Vegas. Connect the dots is a great group
Great, Thank you so much for this!
Hearing your story changed my life I'm going to give AA a try thanks bob.
stopping sounds terrifying. but living like this is also terrifying. i know the big book mentioned reaching that place where you cant live drinking but cant imagine life without it. drinking stuff that isnt meant for human consumption... rock bottom. i want my wife to say i love you too... not to mention my kidneys, but fear never stopped me. im at the point where i get pissed that i keep waking up. but im not suicidal. ive tried rehabs, psychologists, hospitals... like you said, aa is my last hope. step 4 scares me, so does the amends one. ive managed to not get a dui but only cause the police took my car and i never took care of it. 05 mustang, i loved that car. but im on the verge of losing my wife. and my limited sanity. it used to be partying, now its just hiding from life. not functioning anymore. these videos help. if you got sober, maybe i can too
Stay strong - keep listening and keep going - we all think and feel alike - that is why we are a group. I am new to this - but what you wrote - I can identify with - keep listening - keep going and just a day at a time - sometimes I can only go 1 minute at a time........I do not want to live this way anymore -
it help me out over and over.AA IS THE WAY
Enjoyed listening - will definitely do again. You put a little humor in such an ugly place of life - everything you spoke about - I have thought about and relate too. The pyramid scheme hit home - and the spiritually depressed hit home - looking for that spirit again - without the alcohol. You are an excellent and hopeful speaker -
Tomorrow will be my first sober day god willing
thank u for everything and i hope to thank u in person someday....keep fighting peeps!
THESE PEOPLE WERE GENUINELY HAPPY, AND SOBER!!!!!!! THAT gives hope. This freaking lead right here.... OMG I'm THAT. EVERY sentence, Every experience, Every stage, all of it from wow the beginning to the bridge.... the fkng ENTIRE thing..
Bob, I thank you for your words. We are very similar, lots of family love, didn't feel like I belonged, and a blackout relapse drunk. I learned a lot from you. Thank you for this talk. I really can't explain how this moved me. Many blessings 💜✌
What a great speaker...very inspirational...Thank you
I just love the spread Odomtology offers! Helps me a lot in recovery and progress!
Thanks for sharing your inspiration to stay sober!
So much to identify with with this. Thank you for baring your soul. I went to more than one AA meeting where guys I had never met Bared their soul to me, because they not even knew but just assumed that i suffered from the same defect that they suffered from and they were right. im still an alcoholic. Its an epic personal struggle. I feel like im going to overcome still, we shall see.
I have two weeks sober and I need this very much because I don't want to die from alcohol
Thank you for making it interesting , You are the first to catch my attention, all the others bore me to death and get on my nerves.
This is a very wise man. Thanks for sharing your story with us all🙏🏻
hit rock bottom five months ago now sober
sophia kyle Good for you
God bless.
I'm at a point where I cant imagine life sober , it's scary. I've just spoke to work as I'm a minuscule from fucking my life up . I'm having one last blow out today then I shall join the journey . Lord help me . Stay strong , stay sober .
Hope you're ok
@disorderly_mama thank you , unfortunately 3 years down the line from when I posted that comment the drinking is worse ....
One day at a time though.. 🙂
Hey a short story long.lol happy APRIL 03-01-22 is my sobriety date, and I just want 2 thank you 4 being realistic. It honestly been helping me stay sober, well good night. Be up today.(sober)
I’m little over 11 months clean, I’m nervous about being released from probation and about graduate from after care, first time I went to treatment in 2014, was voluntarily, I’m non probation because of my first DUI, (12/30/17), this time it has shown to me that it is really a progression, I was only 30 for a Month almost to the date. I feel my recovery really hasn’t started yet, because I’m not drinking because my probation. I do have the desire to stop drinking, my biggest problem is getting past the fact that I haven’t gone through a lot of things others have, I realize I don’t need to hit that rock bottom cause I’m willing and accept there is a problem, hence the obvious progression I mentioned earlier, still gonna attend meetings, not gonna fake till I make it, but I’m gonna work it till it works.
I was sober a year on probation , major mistake had a drink 1 and half year later serious liver damage Sober again 7 weeks Really not worth it Damned alcoholism (apparently fake it untill you make it is a thing and it works like act as if you are good and you can be) 🙏 very best wishes
This guys shares hit the spot like no other ❤
Bob thanks man..I'm just like you were but now after jereing you I finally understand what I have the spiritual malady , unmanageable part
Ty so much! I felt like U were telling my story!
Have been in Christian 12 Steps , Celebrate Recovery and now am starting the Conquer Series for the second time to battle SA. God is greater than the addictions all addicts struggle with! Really enjoy this testimony! Galatians 5:1 ✝️✡️☝️👊🙏 Have struggled with pills, porn, rehabilitating a TBI from a car accident. After 14 years in recovery I am finally getting clean and sober. I can focus on my faith, marriage and career now!
Thank you so much for sharing!! Your videos help me so much!
50 days sober! This time...
Danielle Greenwood Good for you.
One day at a time.
Good job 👍
Keep it up!
How are you today?
thank you Bob
Love your approach, such a great speaker thank you.
II just gt out yday outta7 day Detox,sstill got slight shakes, and feel uncoordinated , have a meeting tomorro for sum post care and defly as many metings---my body scared me moving detox from spending Thnxgivin at home then go friday in a center- So moved it up--Learning lessons of life and im 46- You're style is gr8t! Thanx man
Hot cups coffee
Will I ever be happy again
Connections between strangers
Nervous and irritable
Careless blunders
A bad case of sarcasm
Sinful desires
The stigma of being an alcoholic
Periods of struggle
You never have to use again
A lucky escape
Common denominator
Servants of will
We must always remember
The Terrible odds And Distress signals
Give your self a break
Think twice
Don't panic
Prayers and good luck
Wow. Just wow. Bob D carries the message for people like him and me. I identify so much with this and what he's experienced and felt. I cried so much. Thank you so much for this. I never ever felt that I was worthy of getting help or that I would get the program. Hearing this helps my faith and hope.
I didn't feel I was worthy of getting help either God 💕🙏 us
Wonderful!! Simply beautiful!!!
Thank you. I needed to hear this.
This is awesome. Can't wait too share it
Awesome speaker
I can sure relate.....very good powerful speaker .....with a lot of funny things for sure!!!!......happy 24 everyone!!!!!
Need to take that 1st step i am an alcoholic !
Thank you for sharing this.
7th day myself bobby d thank you first meeting tommorow all due to listening to this my life word for word thank you
Nicholas Pratt Good for you.
hope you're doing okay now, buddy
Thank you. So many things I'm just like him. Gives me hope that while the world is been thorned apart and we tear apart ourselves there is hope. We just have to keep on searching for the things we have in common. And it seems that in our worst we find our best. Thank you Bod D. Wherever you are. God indeed has a purpose to our lifes. It is all clear for me now I have to find what is mine.
Nelson Nelson gff
Perfection!
Thank you Bob 🙏
2 weeks sober, be great , never understood program before
Powerful
Right On!
Wonderful message, if he can make it then I must be able to also make it
Good listen.
amazing
This is awesome Christina!
looking for temp sponsor ft washington nd area
This guy described me exactly as a child !
Same here
My to do list go to Vegas and meet Bob d 🙏
I have been the tree outgrowing its roots. No more. I will have trees around me. I will never forget this analogy.
I hope you are ok these days.
Gonna try to stay sober for awhile. Hoping this will help
How are you today?
I’m an alcoholic.
The only person I can relate to. All my friends either don’t talk to me or somehow place me in hospitals against my will. I gotta get to a hospital but I’m afraid of being taken away for longer than I’ll need to be.
Love bob d
"I'm feeding something that should be starved.."
sober 7 or 8 months wow. im 7 days and this is making me want to go out
Just got out of rehab.. so scared and anxiety is so bad.. not sure what doing..
Steps
I've been 4 years sober as of 2016.
The loneliness what's wrong with me. I get it💯
so struggling with this.
Honesty