"I don't want you to know that I don't know." "You might help me." A very beautiful wording of the painful disease of alcoholism/drug addiction. The most uncomfortable thing I've had to do in recovery is ask for help, or more often, getting to the point where I was desperate for help. After enough relapses and lower bottoms, I can recognize a lot sooner when I'm trying to figure my life out on my own. I can still make the act of surrender a painful one, but in the past 7 months, it hasn't resulted in a high or a drunk. Thank God for Alcoholics Anonymous.💚
As a member of Cocaine Anonymous i am forever grateful for AA and the program. Bill and Bob saved my life. The 28 march i will, if God wants me to, celebrate 1 year of sobriety 🙏🏻
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob have saved a lot of lives. I am so proud and happy to belong to AA. Way to go Don we have found the easier and softer way. Only fellow addicts understand us..
Bless you! Subbed! Sober and clean since 8/15/1982. Not one drink or drug. Quit smoking 35 years ago, using the aa 12 steps. Not one puff since. Keep coming back guys. You're worth it!🙏🙏🙏
I was born in 1982. You 'ol timers are my "Rock Stars"!! 😊😊 Thanks for your love and dedication to the program. I am 8 months and look forward to AA as part of my new life.
I so love her combination of vulnerability and humor. She is an amazingly brave woman. She clearly grasps the importance of being rigorously honest in recovery and gets the value of laughter.
You just made my day!! Laughed so hard and who said AA was boring? Here's your answer!! Today I'm 17 years and 4 months sober! 24 hours at a time! Thank God. Thank you Bill and Bob and all their friends from everywhere! If you're struggling right now...please don't leave before the miracle!!
Jennifer, I heard you when you were our speaker at the Central Florida Women’s Workshop. I loved you then and loved you again today when I listened to this AA Audio. Your humor, ease of speaking and ability to laugh at yourself are refreshing. I know you work a solid program as well as loving Our Lord. You have a gift and you’re using your talents. I’m so proud of you. ❤️🥰😎💋
If there was a God it should have showed up by now. No. Not in some book written by desperate people. Actually. Meanwhile, the actual reality is, here we are
This is really good. I got out of the hospital two weeks ago for drinking two bottles of vodka a day. Trembling every morning shaking, not eating, nightmares and sweats. I’m grateful to be alive right now. And I will listen to anything I can relate to. If I get one sentence out of a meeting .. It’s worth it
I'm proud of everyone who has gotten sober. Even if u fell off the wagon a few times, you STILL made an effort to stop and try to get your lives together. Alcoholism runs in my family and I've watched alcohol destroy my family members lives. They lost their wives and kids....friends....jobs and homes. I had a friend who died from a seizure due to complications stemming from alcohol abuse. I know it's not easy to quit because the way it makes you feel when u don't have it so quitting can be terrifying. I love u guys. Stay in prayer and don't give up!!
Thank you Jennifer for your sobriety . I cried with you & laughed with you. I loved your gratitude. When tough times happen, that’s all we have to hang onto, as well as God and AA. God bless you xx
Zoom is most definitely a God sent, otherwise I would be unable to attend. When I cannot attend a zoom meeting. I make sure to listen to a funny AA speaker. 8 months / 2nd go, first one was 5 years!! But I’m back home and grateful
I need to listen to these recordings in the morning to start my day. My anxiety is at its worst right now. I'm almost a week sober. I relapsed after 8 months. I still believe I am being gaslighted every single day. It has me on edge and at times suicidal.
I needed to hear this speaker, coming up on a year sober! After 4 years in and out, dont give up on yourself people, keep going, it can and will change if you work the program! :)
I too was in and out- for a lot more than 4 years, sadly- it changed for me when I started working steps (and continued working them daily). Turns out that (at least for us real alcoholics) you don’t get sobriety through osmosis: aka going to meetings and doing fellowship, but not working steps. Who knew?! Lol hope you are still sober, and coming up on 2 years... and if not, you can always go back assuming you’re not dead. Work the steps!
So I just looked up the 12 steps. No wonder they fail so often. They include no element of coming to terms with the actual reason why one pursues an addiction. The reason is always the same: trauma. That's to say, unresolved betrayal of trust and a resulting lack of self-worth.
And really weird actually. The 12 steps are all about reinforcing one's powerlessness (and thus the moments of one's traumatisation) and submitting to an authority that one either has to imagine, or moderate from pre-existing religions or memes, or have dictated to one from some pulpit. Plus, bonus, you get to have to confess your innermost failures face to face to a bunch of people also reinforcing personal helplessness. How could any of this help anyone to accept personal responsibility and grow? Even so, the fact that at least some small fraction of participants are significantly helped is remarkable and inhibits the inclination to deprecate the method.
Yes laughter is important its a bridge to normal living but you have to remember its a serious illness and some people never had a sense of humour sober or drunk. I found out how serious the illness was when I made a joke of it and it bit me in the ass it is a progressive illness. I am sure it can make anyone lose there sense of humour or there life. I choose to laugh others don't but that doesn't affect me like it did in early recovery I don't do other peoples thinking for them its a self destructive vice.
Thank you for your share, hilarious, it really cheered me up ❤️ I love this fellowship, I have 27 years and 5 months continuous sobriety by the Grace of a loving God and my willingness to listen 🙏🏻
For the past 16 years I have had to have something or someone who made me laugh at lease once a day. I am 55 years old have 14 years without a drink and have medical problems because of alcohol abuse. Thank you so much for making me laugh.
when i started doing Africa work..it calmed me down. Some people really need positive input. Alcoholics are in large numbers in Africa. Try South Africa 1st. English is a main language. 2020.
@@stupidtreehugger if you are a capitalist.. if you wanted to be a pirate.. or maybe you heard wild hunting stories.. Maybe it would have set you in a diff place on africa's value.. i am not going to relapse over my fkng dreams. Are you? oh... ! excuse me.. ! the Dead dont dream. the dead.
I feel for u brother..i tryed my best to kill myself..coma..other...i have disabilities because of my attempt and injury to my liver from drinking...still drinking..
I’ve heard a lot of speakers in my time and this one’s on the top five of the greatest ones I’ve ever heard.. It takes a lot to make me laugh .. She pushed my button just right …
I just recently ended my self from a relapse and it’s rough. I quit cold turkey this time and it’s been a crucial 24 hours of not eating not sleeping just calling hotlines to talk about how I feel and speak my mind. Now I am here listening to aa meetings and trying to be content with the not drinking aspect. I been battling within myself to keep me from running to the store and just feed the poison I know desperately I don’t need. Pray for me everyone. It’s really tough for me right now. I hope the next 24 hours goes better. My mind is exhausted and I am tired but restless sigh. Love you all.
Hi Chris, It's been 7 months since you posted here. I'm writing you to tell you that I hope you are well and have found peace in recovery. Your friend, Robin
God put you in my path today, and for that I am grateful! I've been sober for 10 years but listening to your story gave me something I didn't even know I needed....Hope. Thank you for sharing!
Love the speaker, hate all of the Ad interruptions! She has an obvious knack to be a stand-up comedian for sure! Great AA message! I HAD 17+ years sober at one time, until somewhere in 2008. Do NOT EVER feel like you got it beat because of how long you have been sober. Alcoholism is infinitely patient and it will continue to wait and look for the right moment to POUNCE upon you when you least expect it! The only way that you win against alcoholism is if you remain sober up to the time that you take your dying breath....one day at a time. God bless you and keep you.
I'm so thankful to God and AA for my sobriety. thank you so much for posting since I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!! She is witty and very wise. Thank you again 😊❤️☀️🙏.
A moment of truth, almost every time I open YT this video is suggested to me to watch. That has gone on for close to a year! This morning, I was looking for something to watch and listen to while fixing breakfast. This video popped up almost immediately. I am so glad that I clicked on the video to listen to Jennifer's message!! Thank you Jennifer for sharing your story, it was just what the doctor (God) ordered! Thank you!! I am Jason, I am an alcoholic and I am sober today by the fellowship of the program but I have gained my life back by the Grace of God and the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous!! ❤😇
This is day one of sobriety for Me. This audio was amazing. It had me laughing. It had me crying but most of all it made me feel like I had found a home in AA and there’s hope.
Remember some of these things in my story. I am looking forward to being able to laugh at myself the way Jennifer can. Thanks for sharing your story the way you have, it shows the promises do come true.
Best lead I ever heard. Funny vulnerable honest. “I know who I am, What I am and Who’s I am” I wrote that one down. It’s a perfect prayer. Ty so much Jennifer H-K. I hope all these years later you are well & with all the peace a God of our understanding an muster for us mere mortals
proJohn Mccaskie In the Program we don’t have to prove anything to anyone!!! It’s just a matter of being honest with yourself!!! It’s a matter between you and your conscience and God!!!
Wow! My sobriety date is 7/4/04 and I am so grateful that God gave me a second chance at life...This speaker is hysterical, real, and powerful! Thank you. 🙏❤️
I’m a member of AA and I love this speaker so much I listen to her whenever I’m feeling a little down and I share this with others . I love her story and her message. Thank you
AA has been the best thing I have committed to. 4 1/2 years and still doing my best to stay in the boat, be of service and continue to the the work. Thank you Lord for AA.💞💪😇💞
Such a wonderful speaker. Because of the Covid19 there’s been no mtgs and I hate Zoom ... but I loved this speaker and I’m grateful for her message w/ humor and heartache. ❤️🌎❤️
I just want to thank everyone for sharing do to I have problems being around people but has been almost 90days for me I do go to meetings not as much I should but I do like listening it does help thank you
Danielle David I have the same problem, social phobia! I’m 20 years sober and attended meetings for a year without saying anything. You don’t have to talk, just listen. If it’s easier for you to talk with people one on one then wait till after the meetings and talk with someone.
09/19/91 arrested, on my way to prison...08/02/92 released and on the 4th went into a structured parolee program, then 'sober living' with..ugh...other women,...lol,..then a sober living apartment, then worked 'overnights'...after school and working in mental health... Living Sober .. AA saved my life and probably a lot of other folks lives to. Oh, not because of my 12 stepping them, because I wasn't such a bitch anymore! LOL Thank you for your amazing service! I'm disabled now and online live meetings, email and stuff like this is imperative to my sobriety and has been for about 6 years. :)
Definitely loved the message you shared! We are not a glum lot ;) I love that I was able to have some hope from your message and you moved me to tears a few times. Loved it!
I love that she said she learned so much from Janet it reminds me of a friend years ago. It’s was my turn !! Waiting on the Super Secret!! Thx for the wonderful message and especially the laughs. I need them these days !!
Trying to decide. I know I want to come back. I just don’t know if I can. Two patches of 5 years of no drinking. Truly thought I was sober. My beloved sponsor fired me when I asked him to do what he was asking me to do. I didn’t get it then I only kind of get it now. But Jen you got me. Listening to you was better than anything I could’ve watched on Netflix tonight! It reminded me how much I loved laughter. It reminded me how much I love being present when someone is being honest in their pain and story. It reminded me of the hugs. It reminded me of the tears. It reminded me that at times I crave to come back. Not sure why I find it so hard. But thank you. It was one friggin big jump forward. Love ya.
First time listening to Jennifer she's absolutely awesome very well spoken articulate sincere and funny very refreshing to listen to I want to hear more of her
I'm not in AA but this was a very heartwarming story, and funnier than a lot of professional stand ups. Thank you and keep on doin what you're doin! I wish the story teller a glorious, sober life! (Also, how old are you?) 😂
Where do you live? Perhaps someone should slap your face, gently. Maybe then you would wake up. You idiot. Make a big strong loving family. That is the "meaning of life", you dopey twat
Seriously, I LOVE you! You’ve faced your hard truths and received God’s ridiculously, beautiful grace. It is only by His grace that we can release our shame and tell our stories and this help another. Your humor and candor are proof that we do not have to live our lives cloaked in the shame of our pasts. We are recovered!
Oh Gosh thank you for this. It’s so hard, nobody who doesn’t have this disease understands how hard it is. It’s difficult but it can be beautiful and there’s love and great friends along the way and you can always, always start over
What an absolute hoot. A sense of humour AND carrying the message at the same time, what a talent. Love you Jennifer ❤😂
Hey everybody im Mike and I am an alcoholic! Just got 2 yrs July 15th, I hope everybody is doing great in here and keep coming back!
"I don't want you to know that I don't know." "You might help me."
A very beautiful wording of the painful disease of alcoholism/drug addiction. The most uncomfortable thing I've had to do in recovery is ask for help, or more often, getting to the point where I was desperate for help. After enough relapses and lower bottoms, I can recognize a lot sooner when I'm trying to figure my life out on my own. I can still make the act of surrender a painful one, but in the past 7 months, it hasn't resulted in a high or a drunk. Thank God for Alcoholics Anonymous.💚
As a member of Cocaine Anonymous i am forever grateful for AA and the program. Bill and Bob saved my life. The 28 march i will, if God wants me to, celebrate 1 year of sobriety 🙏🏻
Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob have saved a lot of lives.
I am so proud and happy to belong to AA.
Way to go Don we have found the easier and softer way. Only fellow addicts understand us..
Nice Don. I hope you’re still getting it done
@@NewTruths Thank you good sir🙏🏻 I am, 19 months in 8 days. Thanks to God, the steps and lots of service.
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Bless you! Subbed! Sober and clean since 8/15/1982. Not one drink or drug. Quit smoking 35 years ago, using the aa 12 steps. Not one puff since. Keep coming back guys. You're worth it!🙏🙏🙏
I was born in 1982. You 'ol timers are my "Rock Stars"!! 😊😊 Thanks for your love and dedication to the program. I am 8 months and look forward to AA as part of my new life.
7 months sober and I've laughed more than I have my entire life in that short time alone. We DO recover, guys!
That's good. What about the clitoris though? Why is that so neglected? Wouldn't the world be a huge amount happier if? :-(
I've heard the funniest crap in AA and nothing on TV or in movies can touch it.
JENNIFER UR A BEAUTIFUL SOUL WITH SO MANY GIFTS HUMER LIKE THIS WE NEED TO HERE🙏😍🌹
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The fellowship has changed my life ! I thank all of you for keeping A.A Alive!
I so love her combination of vulnerability and humor. She is an amazingly brave woman. She clearly grasps the importance of being rigorously honest in recovery and gets the value of laughter.
Exactly. Rare Gem.
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Thanks Jennifer wherever you are today
You just made my day!! Laughed so hard and who said AA was boring? Here's your answer!! Today I'm 17 years and 4 months sober! 24 hours at a time! Thank God. Thank you Bill and Bob and all their friends from everywhere! If you're struggling right now...please don't leave before the miracle!!
Jaden Rhodes aw i loved your message thank you for posting this and congrats on all your time!
Jennifer, I heard you when you were our speaker at the Central Florida Women’s Workshop. I loved you then and loved you again today when I listened to this AA Audio. Your humor, ease of speaking and ability to laugh at yourself are refreshing. I know you work a solid program as well as loving Our Lord. You have a gift and you’re using your talents. I’m so proud of you. ❤️🥰😎💋
I love AA too. Thank God for the program. Keep coming back, thats what I’m doing! This lady was great!
She was a phenomenal speaker and super hilarious the thing is is I got her message and I related to her
If there was a God it should have showed up by now. No. Not in some book written by desperate people. Actually.
Meanwhile, the actual reality is, here we are
@@stupidtreehugger you're,if "Misery loves company" was a person.☹️
This is the first time that I have listen to recovery speakers on UA-cam. this is awesome
This is really good. I got out of the hospital two weeks ago for drinking two bottles of vodka a day. Trembling every morning shaking, not eating, nightmares and sweats. I’m grateful to be alive right now. And I will listen to anything I can relate to. If I get one sentence out of a meeting .. It’s worth it
Well, 3 years have passed. Have you gone to meetings? Get a sponcer? Work the steps? Or are you drunk again?
Stick to the winners, listen more than you talk, get a good sponsor, pray, keep coming back-it works if you work it!!!
I have five months sober. working the steps. feeling blessed. thank you.
One of the funniest women I have ever listened to -- anyone this funny has a brilliant mind. Anyone this honest has a brilliant Spirit. God bless.
Awesome ❤
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I'm proud of everyone who has gotten sober. Even if u fell off the wagon a few times, you STILL made an effort to stop and try to get your lives together. Alcoholism runs in my family and I've watched alcohol destroy my family members lives. They lost their wives and kids....friends....jobs and homes. I had a friend who died from a seizure due to complications stemming from alcohol abuse. I know it's not easy to quit because the way it makes you feel when u don't have it so quitting can be terrifying. I love u guys. Stay in prayer and don't give up!!
Thank you Jennifer for your sobriety . I cried with you & laughed with you. I loved your gratitude. When tough times happen, that’s all we have to hang onto, as well as God and AA. God bless you xx
❤amen Sister
Thank you Jennifer H. No idea what this has done for me. Cannot show enough appreciation! 💙💙
I learned of you from a lady in my AA group. I’m 40 days today. This weekend has been rough and this has helped me. Thank you Jennifer.
I am so happy I have found an AA group to be able to attend while I'm in covid 19 quarantine!!😊👍
Me too Deanna! 💖
still no in person meetings in my city. But very soon there will be since we are re-opening. My D.O.S. Nov 19/98 "To Thine Own Self be True"
Me too! 😊👍❤️
Zoom is most definitely a God sent, otherwise I would be unable to attend. When I cannot attend a zoom meeting. I make sure to listen to a funny AA speaker. 8 months / 2nd go, first one was 5 years!! But I’m back home and grateful
Me too!
Next month I will be a year sober love this speaker. It shows me that I can have a great time sober. The life of recovery is a true blessing.
I'm coming up to 2 months sober...thanks to AA! =0)
Hope your still doing ok bro .
You alright still?
still sober jojo?
Amazing
Jojo LaBrae you go !!! Proud of you
I love AA. It is my life! I’m over 12 years sober at this point. And crazy. But sober.
Craziness is ok
Sober is great
congrats on your 12 years. im clean since sept.23 2019
Good girl keri... Crazy beautiful😋
I’m so proud of EVERYONE for being sober. Regardless of 10 hours or 10 years you are doing great!!((((:
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Thank you
The only time it doesn't matter how long you have sober is When you haven't been sober very long
Marvelous ❤
I need to listen to these recordings in the morning to start my day. My anxiety is at its worst right now. I'm almost a week sober. I relapsed after 8 months. I still believe I am being gaslighted every single day. It has me on edge and at times suicidal.
Hope all is well with you 🙏 bl stay close to the program peace ✌
Keep coming back! We need you!
Go to a doctor and explain your anxiety.
Ask for Antabuse. DTs? Go to the ER.
I needed to hear this speaker, coming up on a year sober! After 4 years in and out, dont give up on yourself people, keep going, it can and will change if you work the program! :)
Claire McCallum amen!
still sober claire?
I too was in and out- for a lot more than 4 years, sadly- it changed for me when I started working steps (and continued working them daily). Turns out that (at least for us real alcoholics) you don’t get sobriety through osmosis: aka going to meetings and doing fellowship, but not working steps. Who knew?! Lol hope you are still sober, and coming up on 2 years... and if not, you can always go back assuming you’re not dead. Work the steps!
So I just looked up the 12 steps. No wonder they fail so often. They include no element of coming to terms with the actual reason why one pursues an addiction. The reason is always the same: trauma. That's to say, unresolved betrayal of trust and a resulting lack of self-worth.
And really weird actually. The 12 steps are all about reinforcing one's powerlessness (and thus the moments of one's traumatisation) and submitting to an authority that one either has to imagine, or moderate from pre-existing religions or memes, or have dictated to one from some pulpit.
Plus, bonus, you get to have to confess your innermost failures face to face to a bunch of people also reinforcing personal helplessness.
How could any of this help anyone to accept personal responsibility and grow? Even so, the fact that at least some small fraction of participants are significantly helped is remarkable and inhibits the inclination to deprecate the method.
brilliant.. positively Brilliant... Love and 🙏 to Jennifer..
so grateful to have these speakers on UA-cam during this time at home from the Coronoavirus...
check out Candace Moore and father Leo
I wish The Zoom AA meeting Ppl could hear this educational on outside issues Remember we deal with Alcohol
Love love love this lady and her respect for Alcoholics anonymous ...we need more Sponsors like that
OMG! I needed a good laugh right now!!! Being sober doesn't have to be so serious all the time! Laughter definitely cures the soul.
AA doesn't work ln 90% of cases yet Dr Bob claimed 90% success? how come ?? nothing funny about that !?
@Ants C " do the steps properly " Hmm what does that mean ?? properly ?? " in a timely manner " ?? pls explain !
@Ants C " only 10% " ? says who ? " properly " pls explain ? " timely manner " clear cut precise instructions !!?? why are you so vague ?
Yes laughter is important its a bridge to normal living but you have to remember its a serious illness and some people never had a sense of humour sober or drunk. I found out how serious the illness was when I made a joke of it and it bit me in the ass it is a progressive illness. I am sure it can make anyone lose there sense of humour or there life. I choose to laugh others don't but that doesn't affect me like it did in early recovery I don't do other peoples thinking for them its a self destructive vice.
Make some crap jokes then
I’m 25 days sober! One day at a time! I’m going to stay sober in it to win it this time. 🙏🏼 Amen!
Thank you for your share, hilarious, it really cheered me up ❤️ I love this fellowship, I have 27 years and 5 months continuous sobriety by the Grace of a loving God and my willingness to listen 🙏🏻
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I've been Roman Catholuc for 50+years, since I was 14. I really love the south in Southern Baptism, and she's pure preacher. ❤
For the past 16 years I have had to have something or someone who made me laugh at lease once a day. I am 55 years old have 14 years without a drink and have medical problems because of alcohol abuse. Thank you so much for making me laugh.
when i started doing Africa work..it calmed me down. Some people really need positive input.
Alcoholics are in large numbers in Africa. Try South Africa 1st. English is a main language. 2020.
Marty, perhaps you will mature on to figuring out why your parents were so horrible to you
@@stupidtreehugger if you are a capitalist.. if you wanted to be a pirate.. or maybe you heard wild hunting stories.. Maybe it would have set you in a diff place on africa's value..
i am not going to relapse over my fkng dreams.
Are you? oh... ! excuse me.. !
the Dead dont dream.
the dead.
I feel for u brother..i tryed my best to kill myself..coma..other...i have disabilities because of my attempt and injury to my liver from drinking...still drinking..
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I’ve heard a lot of speakers in my time and this one’s on the top five of the greatest ones I’ve ever heard..
It takes a lot to make me laugh ..
She pushed my button just right …
Jennifer made my day! Long time Alanon here & so grateful for this share!!!
I just recently ended my self from a relapse and it’s rough. I quit cold turkey this time and it’s been a crucial 24 hours of not eating not sleeping just calling hotlines to talk about how I feel and speak my mind. Now I am here listening to aa meetings and trying to be content with the not drinking aspect. I been battling within myself to keep me from running to the store and just feed the poison I know desperately I don’t need. Pray for me everyone. It’s really tough for me right now. I hope the next 24 hours goes better. My mind is exhausted and I am tired but restless sigh. Love you all.
I'm doing it too. I'm on day 3. I've gotten about 10 hours sleep and I keep listening to these AA speakers. I hope you made it. ❤
How are you doing?
Hi Chris,
It's been 7 months since you posted here. I'm writing you to tell you that I hope you are well and have found peace in recovery.
Your friend,
Robin
God put you in my path today, and for that I am grateful! I've been sober for 10 years but listening to your story gave me something I didn't even know I needed....Hope. Thank you for sharing!
Love the speaker, hate all of the Ad interruptions! She has an obvious knack to be a stand-up comedian for sure! Great AA message! I HAD 17+ years sober at one time, until somewhere in 2008. Do NOT EVER feel like you got it beat because of how long you have been sober.
Alcoholism is infinitely patient and it will continue to wait and look for the right moment to POUNCE upon you when you least expect it! The only way that you win against alcoholism is if you remain sober up to the time that you take your dying breath....one day at a time.
God bless you and keep you.
Thank you for your honesty. How brave you are. 😊Sober today, one day at a time.
You don’t go to Denny’s, you wind up at Denny’s
Nah, That’s Waffle House for me. Lol 😂
Lmaooo
Right! Usually because it's next door to a place you REALLY don't wanna eat at.
I love this. I keep coming back to this. I did my program inpatient, but we followed the program and I relate well. 2 years sober now.
I'm so thankful to God and AA for my sobriety. thank you so much for posting since I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!! She is witty and very wise. Thank you again 😊❤️☀️🙏.
Thank you. This is so beautiful. Crying and laughing. You're a great speaker
Just because you're small doesn't mean you're not big
A moment of truth, almost every time I open YT this video is suggested to me to watch. That has gone on for close to a year! This morning, I was looking for something to watch and listen to while fixing breakfast. This video popped up almost immediately. I am so glad that I clicked on the video to listen to Jennifer's message!! Thank you Jennifer for sharing your story, it was just what the doctor (God) ordered! Thank you!! I am Jason, I am an alcoholic and I am sober today by the fellowship of the program but I have gained my life back by the Grace of God and the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous!! ❤😇
This is day one of sobriety for Me. This audio was amazing. It had me laughing. It had me crying but most of all it made me feel like I had found a home in AA and there’s hope.
Remember some of these things in my story. I am looking forward to being able to laugh at myself the way Jennifer can. Thanks for sharing your story the way you have, it shows the promises do come true.
Heather Close I hope you have started to be able to laugh like you mentioned. 💙 I hope all is well your way. Have a blessed journey in recovery.
Have not laughed and felt tears at the same time in a while, and it's been 5 1/2 years Sober. Thank you, Kip C.
Falafells and African babies to you, you ignorant. What do you want, a medal? What have you done to make human lie better?
Alexander LegisNonScriptae
That was the most beautiful speaker tape I have ever heard
Best lead I ever heard. Funny vulnerable honest.
“I know who I am,
What I am and
Who’s I am”
I wrote that one down.
It’s a perfect prayer.
Ty so much Jennifer H-K.
I hope all these years later you are well & with all the peace a God of our understanding an muster for us mere mortals
2019 weeks sober this week. Cool matches the year
deanski snow Congrats! 🎉 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
38 years awesome!
prove it?!
proJohn Mccaskie In the Program we don’t have to prove anything to anyone!!! It’s just a matter of being honest with yourself!!! It’s a matter between you and your conscience and God!!!
Awesome!!
Wow! My sobriety date is 7/4/04 and I am so grateful that God gave me a second chance at life...This speaker is hysterical, real, and powerful! Thank you.
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Thank you SO MUCH for your courage sharing your vulnerability. You are such an inspiration and I have learned so much from your lead. Bless you!
Perfect timing! Haven’t had a meeting or a laugh in a long time. It’s been a lot longer since I’ve had a drink. 🙏🏾
Mahoney,,Get your ass to a meeting.
My opinion only...
@@brianpeters7847 you're right
Stay!!!❤
Hysterically funny, wonderfully gifted speaker! Wow...keep doing what you're doing!
It only took you 7 years to find her
@@stupidtreehugger lol!!
I don't have a room near me . This is what I've got
I’m a member of AA and I love this speaker so much I listen to her whenever I’m feeling a little down and I share this with others . I love her story and her message. Thank you
Absolutely amazing speaker! I love this program that saved my life!
I remember when she got clean at the Plano Group. So popular now.
This girl is great! I need to hear more of her.Any suggestions?
AA has been the best thing I have committed to. 4 1/2 years and still doing my best to stay in the boat, be of service and continue to the the work. Thank you Lord for AA.💞💪😇💞
Such a wonderful speaker. Because of the Covid19 there’s been no mtgs and I hate Zoom ... but I loved this speaker and I’m grateful for her message w/ humor and heartache. ❤️🌎❤️
I have gotten used to the Zoom format. It took almost 6 months though.
One of the funniest speakers I've ever heard. Thanks for sharing so beautifully, Jennifer.
You're an idiot. Go make a big strong loving family
Thirty one days clean feels great .
God is good
Happy for my sobriety;)
A captivating speaker. I heard her live at a State convention. Came home searching for this online to share with others.
I just want to thank everyone for sharing do to I have problems being around people but has been almost 90days for me I do go to meetings not as much I should but I do like listening it does help thank you
Danielle David I have the same problem, social phobia! I’m 20 years sober and attended meetings for a year without saying anything. You don’t have to talk, just listen. If it’s easier for you to talk with people one on one then wait till after the meetings and talk with someone.
still sober danielle?
Jennifer H your another AA Mentor. I wish you could be my friend. Thanks for everything Cola, SC
I’ve gone to meetings for over 40 years and this is in the top three of all of the best funniest shares I’ve ever heard
09/19/91 arrested, on my way to prison...08/02/92 released and on the 4th went into a structured parolee program, then 'sober living' with..ugh...other women,...lol,..then a sober living apartment, then worked 'overnights'...after school and working in mental health... Living Sober .. AA saved my life and probably a lot of other folks lives to. Oh, not because of my 12 stepping them, because I wasn't such a bitch anymore! LOL Thank you for your amazing service! I'm disabled now and online live meetings, email and stuff like this is imperative to my sobriety and has been for about 6 years. :)
Dang..living sober program doesn't exist in.the uk. Think i ll start one up!! We need it!
What a blessing this was for me. I hope I can always continue to learn even at 42 years.
Celebrating 90 days today of being alcohol free. Praise AA and my Lord and God for all their help.
Are you still sober
Definitely loved the message you shared! We are not a glum lot ;) I love that I was able to have some hope from your message and you moved me to tears a few times. Loved it!
I pray for one day that I can speak this clearly oh I got to keep coming back 🙏
I love Jennifer! Privileged to have known her for ~45 yrs. She does the next right thing.
God teach me to laugh again but never let me forget I cried.
Never heard that before. Good one.
I love that she said she learned so much from Janet it reminds me of a friend years ago. It’s was my turn !! Waiting on the Super Secret!! Thx for the wonderful message and especially the laughs. I need them these days !!
Trying to decide. I know I want to come back. I just don’t know if I can.
Two patches of 5 years of no drinking. Truly thought I was sober.
My beloved sponsor fired me when I asked him to do what he was asking me to do. I didn’t get it then I only kind of get it now. But Jen you got me.
Listening to you was better than anything I could’ve watched on Netflix tonight!
It reminded me how much I loved laughter. It reminded me how much I love being present when someone is being honest in their pain and story. It reminded me of the hugs. It reminded me of the tears. It reminded me that at times I crave to come back. Not sure why I find it so hard. But thank you. It was one friggin big jump forward. Love ya.
Thank you so very I needed this meeting...I'm only 2 months clean and sober you have given me that yes I can make it...God bless you and yours...
I'm got cold in bed I pick u laughing so much u rock I got 16 yrs AA and God saved me faith over fear trust god
Thank God I found AA .I finally found a home and people just like me.
Good for you🙏 Unfortunately I'm in Memphis Tennessee and LOOKING❗ MAY GOD BLESS YOU🙏
I am disgusted at how retarded most of humanity is
First time listening to Jennifer she's absolutely awesome very well spoken articulate sincere and funny very refreshing to listen to I want to hear more of her
That might be the best AA talk I’ve ever heard 🙏
One of the best shares, if not THE best share I've ever heard. Thank you, Jennifer H. and thank you AA Speakers and More for posting.
I'm not in AA but this was a very heartwarming story, and funnier than a lot of professional stand ups. Thank you and keep on doin what you're doin! I wish the story teller a glorious, sober life! (Also, how old are you?) 😂
Awesome loved your share ❤️ I am an Alcoholic and my home group is the Legacy Club.
Thanks for your story, Jennifer! Heard so many similarities! Keep passing it on!!
You also, are an idiot. Go make a big strong loving family.
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Thank You for your message💞
That was so powerful and incredibly wrought with so many emotions. Thank you to the girl that shares my name ❤️
i needed to hear this tonight. thank you very much.
Fantastic! So funny, so relatable! We do recover!! Thank you so much, Jennifer ☕💚
Working out on my Peleton. Couldn’t stop laughing
Way better than a class😉🤣🤣🤣
Just got 3 years sober
Still listen to this pitch almost daily as I fall asleep
As a member of AA, I totally understand everything she said. And, she’s so darn funny!!!!! Wish I could talk like that!
I love this lead! I listen to Jennifer often and share this with many people. Thank you Jennifer!
Where do you live? Perhaps someone should slap your face, gently. Maybe then you would wake up. You idiot. Make a big strong loving family. That is the "meaning of life", you dopey twat
@@stupidtreehugger global warming , climate change is fake science! Perhaps you should get behind a cause that is real
This lady, told my story. Thank you 🥰
Thank You for your share! Keep coming back. In AA Love & Service Hugs!!! Debbie C
Seriously, I LOVE you! You’ve faced your hard truths and received God’s ridiculously, beautiful grace. It is only by His grace that we can release our shame and tell our stories and this help another. Your humor and candor are proof that we do not have to live our lives cloaked in the shame of our pasts. We are recovered!
One of the best shares ever... Thank you so much for posting this...
Made me laugh and made me cry. Thanks Higher Power and everybody for AA.
thank you for another day sober!!!!! love your story
Would give anything to have this amazing woman as a sponsor.
Leslie Dameron You’re too cute to wear a mask but keep it on anyways lately. Love from San Diego with seven years
Haven’t heard a share in a long time, brings back beautiful memories.
Love The Experience, Strength and hope here!
Oh Gosh thank you for this. It’s so hard, nobody who doesn’t have this disease understands how hard it is. It’s difficult but it can be beautiful and there’s love and great friends along the way and you can always, always start over