AA #2 — Dr. Bob

AA #2 — Dr. Bob

Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? RAW Recovery’s AA #2 — Dr. Bob episode drops you right into a live, unfiltered morning with host Dion, bad coffee, swearing, cats and all. It’s messy, honest, and very much like sitting in a home group with someone who’s just saying it how it is.

You’ll hear Dion start with his own rough mood and a cat-related blow‑up, then shift into the day’s reading from *Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions* about Step Eight and the harm alcoholics cause. He challenges the idea that we “mostly hurt ourselves”, asking listeners to think about forgotten phone calls, lost relationships, and those angry outbursts at strangers or even police who kept showing up because of drinking. From there, the focus moves to Dr.

Bob and the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous. Dion reads from the Big Book, walking through Bill W.’s shaky business trip to Akron in 1935, his temptation in the hotel bar, and the moment he turned instead to a church directory: “The age of miracles is still with us. My own recovery proves that. Your recovery is proving that.” Dr.

Bob’s story is shared straight from the text: spiritual searching that didn’t quite work, another devastating bender, and then a decision to come clean with the people he feared most would judge him. Dion highlights how those conversations and amends laid the groundwork for AA, long before there were meetings to walk into.

Along the way he touches on group growth, keeping meetings open for newcomers, and the uncomfortable truth that “AA didn’t work for me” often really means “I didn’t do what was suggested.” If you’re interested in why AA looks the way it does today, or you’re wrestling with harms you’ve caused, this one might get you thinking about what choices you’re making in your own recovery today.