Experience The Big Book

AA Big Book Study: Specific Directions on Recovery

Saturday – Ep: 619 – Step 10 – The Steps We Took – Part 3
Jun 11, 2025 – 23:17
Saturday – Ep: 618 – Step 10 – The Steps We Took – Part 2
Jun 7, 2025 – 29:20
Saturday – Ep: 617 – Step 10 – The Steps We Took – Part 1
Jun 3, 2025 – 32:09
Saturday – Ep: 616 – Into Action – Pages 83-4 – The 10th step promises!
May 31, 2025 – 23:35
Saturday – Ep: 615 – Into Action – Step 10 – Page 84 – We have entered the world of the Spirit!
May 22, 2025 – 34:21
Saturday – Ep: 614 – Into Action – Pages 83-4 – “The Promises”
May 18, 2025 – 33:44
Saturday – Ep 613 – Into Action – Page 82-3 – Steps 8 and 9 – The Alcoholic Tornado!
May 14, 2025 – 23:05
Saturday – Ep: 612 – Into Action – Steps 8 and 9 – Pages 77-82 – Part 2
May 10, 2025 – 30:24
Saturday – Ep: 611 – Into Action – Step 8 and 9 – Part 1 – Pages 76-77
May 6, 2025 – 28:09
Saturday – Ep: 610 – Steps 6 and 7 – Final thoughts!
Apr 28, 2025 – 34:50
Saturday – Ep: 609 – Step 6 and 7 – The Steps We Took – Change is the name of the game! Part 5
Apr 24, 2025 – 28:48
Saturday – Ep: 608 – Steps 6 and 7 – The Steps We Took – Change is the name of the game – Part 4
Apr 21, 2025 – 29:51
Saturday – Ep: 607 – Steps 6 and 7 – The Steps We Took – Change is the name of the game – Part 3
Apr 17, 2025 – 32:03
Saturday – Ep: 606 – Steps 6 and 7 – The Steps We Took – Change is the name of the game – Part 2
Apr 13, 2025 – 26:05
Saturday – Ep: 605 – Steps 6 and 7 – The Steps We Took – Change is the Name of the Game – Part 1
Apr 10, 2025 – 29:26
Saturday – Ep: 604 – Steps 6 and 7 – Drop the Rock!
Apr 7, 2025 – 42:56
Saturday – Ep: 603 – Into Action – Page 75 – The Fifth Step Promises
Apr 1, 2025 – 27:57
Saturday – Ep: 602 – Into Action – Pages 72-75 – Step 5 – Part 2
Mar 28, 2025 – 26:13
Saturday – Ep: 601 – Into Action – Pages 72 – Step 5 – Part 1
Mar 24, 2025 – 30:50
Saturday – Ep: 600 – How it Works – Pages 70-71 – Sex Inventory Part 2 and The step 4 promises!
Mar 18, 2025 – 27:20
Saturday – Ep: 599 – How it Works – Pages 68-69 – Step 4 – Sex Inventory – Part 1
Mar 12, 2025 – 28:08
Saturday – Ep: 598 – Step 4 – Fear – Second step proposition exercise on fear – Part 3 – see pdf under documents
Mar 8, 2025 – 27:24
Saturday – Ep: 597 – Step 4 – Fear Inventory – Second step proposition exercise on fear – Part 2 – see pdf in links and documents
Mar 4, 2025 – 31:42
Saturday – Ep: 596 – Step 4 – Fear – The 2nd step proposition exercise on fear! Part 1 – See pdf under links and documents
Feb 27, 2025 – 31:42
Saturday – Ep: 595 – My AA birthday, a time of reflection! God is doing for me what I cannot do for myself!
Feb 18, 2025 – 34:07
Saturday – Ep: 594 – How it Works – Pages 67-8 – Step 4 – Fear Inventory – Freedom with Fear!
Feb 14, 2025 – 31:29
Saturday – Ep: 593 – How it Works – Pages 65-67 – Step 4 – Resentment Inventory Instructions – Part 3 – Freedom from Anger!
Feb 10, 2025 – 31:17
Saturday – Ep: 592 – How it Works – Pages 63-67 – Step 4 Resentment Inventory Instructions – Part 2 – Freedom from Anger!
Feb 6, 2025 – 31:38
Saturday – Ep: 591 – How it Works – Pages 63-65 – Step 4 Resentment Inventory Instructions – Part 1 – Freedom from Anger!
Feb 3, 2025 – 29:55
Saturday – Ep: 590 – How it Works – Pages 62-64 – What is the purpose of the fourth step?
Jan 31, 2025 – 29:29
Saturday – Ep: 589 – How it Works – Pages 62-63 – Step 3 – Part 2 – Contract with God – Third step prayer
Jan 28, 2025 – 30:20
Saturday – Ep: – 588 – How it Works – Pages 60-61 – Step 3 – Part 1
Jan 25, 2025 – 23:49
Saturday – Ep: 587 – How it Works – Page 60 – The ABCs
Jan 21, 2025 – 24:01
Saturday – Ep: 586 – How it Works – Page 59 – The program of recovery – The 12 steps
Jan 16, 2025 – 31:47
Saturday – Ep: 585 – How it works – Page 58-9 – There is one who has all power – that one is God – may you find Him now!
Jan 12, 2025 – 28:55
Saturday – Ep: 584 – How it Works – Pages 58-59 – Do you want what they had? Are you willing to go to any length to get it? What are my old ideas? How do I let go of them absolutely?
Jan 10, 2025 – 28:55
Saturday – Ep: 583 – How it Works – Page 58 – Why are their people who cannot and will not give themselves to this simple program? What does it mean to be constitutionally incapable of being honest with yourself?
Jan 6, 2025 – 29:08
Saturday – Ep: 582 – We Agnostics – Pages 55-57 – He has come to all who have honestly sought Him! When we drew near to Him He disclosed Himself to us!
Dec 31, 2024 – 30:22
Saturday – Ep: 581 – We Agnostics – Pages 52-55 – God either is or isn’t – What is our choice to be?
Dec 20, 2024 – 25:43
Saturday – Ep: 580 – We Agnostics – Pages 50-52 – Our ideas did not work! But the God idea did!
Dec 17, 2024 – 20:10
Saturday – Ep: 579 – We Agnostics – Pages 47-50 – Alcohol was the great persuader – It finally beat us into a state of reasonableness!
Dec 12, 2024 – 31:46
Saturday – Ep: 578 – We Agnostics – Pages 45-47 – We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. “Do I now believe, or am I even willing to believe that there is a Power greater than myself
Dec 6, 2024 – 29:11
Saturday – Ep: 577 – We Agnostics – Pages 44-45 – These pages are the whole deal!
Dec 3, 2024 – 27:00
Saturday – Ep: 576 – More about Alcoholism – Pages 40-44 – Once more: the alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink – His defense must come from a higher power!
Nov 30, 2024 – 28:46
Saturday – Ep: 575 – More about alcoholism – Pages 40-43 – A man called Fred! Powerful story of recovery!
Nov 27, 2024 – 20:02
Saturday – Ep: 574 – More about alcoholism – Pages 39-40 – The alcoholic will be unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge!
Nov 25, 2024 – 11:15
Saturday – Ep: 573 – More about alcoholism – Pages 35-38 – A man called Jim – The Jaywalker – The insanity of the disease of alcoholism!
Nov 22, 2024 – 27:53
Saturday – Ep: 572 – More about Alcoholism – Pages 32-35 – A man of thirty – Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic!
Nov 19, 2024 – 23:49
Saturday – Ep: 571 – More about Alcoholism – Pages 30-32 – We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics – This is the first step in recovery! were alcoholics –
Nov 15, 2024 – 25:22
Saturday – Ep: 570 – There is a solution – Pages 28-9 – What seemed at first a flimsy reed, has proved to be the loving and powerful hand of God!
Nov 12, 2024 – 22:50

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