Welcome to Episode 27 of Breakfast with an Alcoholic! This is the first installment of our Big Book Study. In this episode, we dive right in and start reading and discussing Chapter 1 of the Big Book and we’d love to have you join us! If you’d like to follow along, here’s a link to the official AA version:
If you’re thinking of ordering it, I sure wish you’d consider my friends at Choices Bookstore here on the Upper East Side.
Coming across this bookstore on my second or third day here in NY is one of the ways I knew I was home. Also, they have a great selection of AA/NA-related literature, chips and keytags and whatnot. I go there a lot.
This episode covers the first half of Bill’s Story—which takes us through Bill’s pivotal dinner with his old drunk friend Ebby Thacher. I’m going to start a Chat Thread to facilitate discussion.1 I’d like to figure out ways to expand participation, so if you have ideas, I’m all ears.
Reading and really understanding Bill’s Story has been critical to my own sobriety. I tried everything for ten years to get sober—it was carefully studying the Big Book and understanding Bill’s Story that got me sober. I’m also going to tell you that this can be really powerful—most people I know who start these end up doing them over and over and over. Typically, repeating the course material over and over denotes failure, here it produces sobriety.2 In the view of this alcoholic, of course.
I hope you enjoy Episode 27 and the first installment of our Big Book Study!
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Breakfast with an Alcoholic: Episode 27