Step 2 and the Sanity He Had Never Actually Known – Dave C.
About This Speaker Tape
A 1973 Pinto mobile home with a logo embedded in his forehead from passing out on the steering wheel. That was the baseline for Dave C. He spent years as a blackout drinker, drifting from the Mexican border to the "lowest of the low" bars in Anchorage, Alaska, where people shot at each other mid-drink and then went right back to the bottle. He describes his early life as the "Brady Bunch with guns," a chaotic existence that ended with him almost burning down his brother's house by cooking a frozen pizza in the box.
Dave admits he never knew what sanity looked like, making Step 2 a paradox: how do you restore something you never had? He spent five years hiding behind the "fellowship" and service titles—the grapevine rep, the coffee pourer—while his marriage disintegrated. It took a blunt truth from a sponsor to stop him from "spewing" about his own version of the program. By trading his intellectual machine for a Higher Power, Dave finally stopped being a "miserable old son of a gun."
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