They Told Me I'd Never Feel Love - AA Proved Them Wrong - AA Speaker - Wayne B.

Wayne spent five years drinking his way through AA meetings before his sponsor casually mentioned the program works better if you don't drink - and what happened next almost got one of them killed.

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Wayne was living in a dumpster behind a bar in Illinois when his dad found him and closed the lid. A bartender sent him to a basement AA meeting where an old-timer grabbed him and wouldn't let go - not through five years of drinking in meetings, not through a gunshot, not through a psych ward. Wayne fired his sponsor after year one, sponsored himself into a seven-year depression, then finally did the steps the way they're written and went from the bottom of the barrel to graduating a police academy.

Wayne B. from Santa Monica, CA speaking at ORC 2000 Program - March 1st 2000
Music: Deep by KaizanBlu