Joe Phelan Alcoholics Anonymous Trustee 1984 AA Talk at Georgia State Convention [Audio CD] History of Recovery

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JOE PHELAN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS TRUSTEE 1984 AA TALK AT GEORGIA STATE CONVENTION

   • Joe was one of the few AA members of his era to get sober in his twenties.
   •  Though he was a Marine and went to Harvard his Alcoholism progressed to a very bad point while he was quite young.
   •  He recounts a number of incidents where drinking brought tragedy.
   •  How he finally got sober with the help of his AA Sponsor and the somewhat famous Woburn (Massachusetts) Men’s Meeting.
   •  Still a very active AA Group.~ His struggle to maintain his early sobriety during a JIGGY period.
   •  He talks at length about recovery in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.
   •  How he came to believe in a God of his own conception;
   • One inside of him not off in the sky somewhere
   •  A Very Tough Drunkalgue Followed By a Powerful Recovery Message.