Join Joe McDonald as he reads from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering a raw and insightful exploration of the gradual decline that accompanies addiction. Reflecting on the profound struggles faced by those in recovery, Joe highlights how the deterioration of one’s life often feels gradual, despite the accumulating chaos.

Joe recounts, “So then he says gradually things got worse. You want to hear how he describes gradually? You got to get inside of his experience here. The house was taken over by the mortgage holder. And it takes months. How many of you got thrown out? It takes a while. You gotta ignore it. You break through the pass lock a few times. Any of you ever just break the lock box off the thing? No lock box breakers? It takes a while. My mother-in-law died and my wife and father-in-law became ill. So everything’s ...