The Illness That Never Leaves Even on a Winning Streak – James M.
About This Speaker Tape
A childhood spent in Dunwoody was a blur of sports and a simmering temper eventually hardening into a pattern of legal trouble and a desperate need for chemical relief. James M. describes a descent into shut-in paranoia at the University of Alabama where he was beaten nearly unconscious by a meth addict named Lumberjack and contemplated the steep banks of the Black Warrior River as an exit.
After a judge granted him unconditional probation he entered the rooms through a friend named Felix. He spent years fighting the program's suggestions treating sobriety as a way to acquire material success until a wave of grief in a meeting forced him to confront untreated alcoholism. Through a rigorous process of subtraction and the guidance of a hard-nosed sponsor he moved from the ego of 'carrying a message' to the humility of service work finding his Higher Power not in prayer but in the faces of the people in the rooms.
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