Join Joe McDonald as he explores the profound moments of shared experience in Step 1 from the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book. This session delves into the universal feelings of discomfort and revelation that arise during early recovery.

Joe vividly recounts, “I felt the whole room go there. It does not matter your religious upbringing and training. When you’re drunk and drinking, and you know you probably oughtn’t to be, and the cat’s sitting with you announces, ‘I’ve got religion,’ the fun meter is going down. This is going to suck with a capital S-U-C-K.” Reflecting on a fellow’s testimony, he shares, “So he says I was a guest. So that was it. Last summer an alcoholic crackpot. Now I suspected a little crack about religion. How many of you had that? Look, I can get past this. A little twitchy. He had that starry-eyed look. Yes, the  ...