Something Said Get Up, and for the First Time, I Listened – Sharon B.

About This Speaker Tape

Sharon B. shares her journey from angry, drug-fueled drifting through communes, carnivals, and New Orleans bars to finding sobriety through AA in Los Angeles. After a brutal assault left her face-down in the desert, something told her to get up and live. Her mother's refusal to send money led her to call a woman from a bar who got her to her first meeting.

She sobered up on floors and sleeping bags, got a sponsor, worked the steps, and found a Higher Power — starting with a Bekins moving van. She talks about amends with her parents, walking through divorce with dignity, and discovering that letting go always makes room for something better.

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Timestamps

• 0:00 Introduction and home group
• 2:00 Anonymity at work
• 3:30 Started drinking at 14
• 6:00 Anger and resentments growing
• 8:00 New York City, advertising agency
• 10:00 Communes and searching for answers
• 12:00 Iowa — resentful of where she was born
• 14:00 Organic farm in Wisconsin — chose alcohol over the relationship
• 17:00 Half acre of marijuana, forgot it, joined the carnival
• 19:00 New Orleans — Jose Cuervo Gold
• 22:00 Body falling apart, parents visit
• 25:00 Assault in Palm Springs — beaten, left in desert
• 28:00 Something said get up — moment of clarity
• 30:00 Mother says go to Salvation Army
• 32:00 Chris gets her to first AA meeting
• 35:00 Early sobriety — sleeping bags, Big Book from Maurice
• 38:00 Sponsor, getting on knees, fourth and fifth step
• 42:00 New Orleans international convention — making amends
• 45:00 Bekins moving van as Higher Power
• 48:00 Marriage, divorce, walking through with dignity
• 52:00 Spiritual awakening at seven years sober
• 55:00 The gift of sobriety — Chris died of the disease