Episode notes

Join Joe McDonald as he reads from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, diving into the transformative journey of Step 4 AA. In this session, Joe emphasizes the importance of self-discovery and taking a fearless moral inventory to aid in the recovery process.

“Okay, so we did exactly the same things with our life. So what’s exactly the same thing? It’s a fact-finding and a fact-facing process. So how many of you have found facts but didn’t face facts? So we didn’t follow through on the process yet. And you know that’s you when you say, ‘Well, of course, I behave that way. I’m an addict.’ Well, that means that you have an incurable deadly illness. Oh yeah? Yeah, I’m not that bad yet. Right. Fact-finding, not fact-facing. The other thing it says is it’s an effort to discover the truth about the stock in trade. What’s the stock in trad ... 

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