The Terror of Step 4, and What Happens When You Do It Anyway – Ethel C.

About This Speaker Tape

Ethel C. from Santa Clara shares at a Friday night speaker meeting in Campbell, California in December 1987 with over 32 years of sobriety. She tells of sneaking into speakeasies during Prohibition as a young San Franciscan, a career as a department store buyer where buying trips turned into drinking trips, and a husband who played a dirty trick by quitting drinking while she could not. Her doctor sent her to AA after she confessed she was trying to kill herself.

She chose the program over her marriage after just one meeting, found her Higher Power replaced the bottle of booze that had been running her life, and discovered the Fourth and Fifth Steps were harder than pushing a peanut down the road with her nose.

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• 00:00 Over 32 years sober sharing in Campbell, California
• 08:00 Sneaking into speakeasies during Prohibition in San Francisco
• 16:00 Department store buyer whose buying trips became drinking trips
• 24:00 Her husband's dirty trick of quitting drinking
• 32:00 The doctor who sent her to AA after her confession
• 40:00 Choosing the program over her marriage after one meeting
• 48:00 Higher Power replacing the bottle that had been running her life
• 56:00 Fourth and Fifth Steps harder than pushing a peanut with her nose