Step 10 and the Tangible Actions That Stop a Resentment – Paige F.

About This Speaker Tape

Calgary, under a pedestrian underpass, panhandling and sleeping in the dirt. Paige F. recalls the annihilation of a life—not as a moral failure, but as an atomic bomb leveling everything worthwhile. The illness is a mushroom cloud that engulfs everyone it touches, including a stranger who once worried for her while she was a homeless crackhead.

She dismantles the lie that she was only hurting herself, describing the physical allergy and the mental obsession that compels the first drink. Sobriety is merely the beginning; the real solution is a spiritual awakening. Paige views the 12 steps as tangible actions rather than intangible ideas. She believes her responsibility is to be a living demonstration of a Higher Power, moving with such velocity and intensity that the change is undeniable. To her, sponsorship isn't a professional vocation but a rigorous, shoulder-to-shoulder effort to keep others from dropping into oblivion.

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Timestamps

• 0:00 Introduction to the Big Book study on 'There Is A Solution'.
• 3:45 Paige F. shares her experience with homelessness in Calgary and the woman who worried about her.
• 7:15 Discussion on the radical idea of alcoholism as an illness rather than a moral failing.
• 11:20 Laughter: The 'tripling' rule used by medical professionals to estimate alcohol intake.
• 15:40 The responsibility of the recovered alcoholic to make the approach to newcomers.
• 19:10 The concept of 'deportment' as a living demonstration of the Higher Power.
• 23:30 Paige F. describes her 'line-by-line' sponsorship style and the lack of fees.
• 27:15 Analysis of the biblical reference to those who are 'least likely to be healed' getting well.
• 31:00 The argument that sobriety is not the solution, but the beginning of the process.
• 35:45 The 'telephone game' and the importance of the Big Book's precise directions.
• 39:20 The 'we' of Alcoholics Anonymous and the collective experience of the first 180 members.
• 43:10 Closing thoughts on the program of action and the removal of the mental obsession.