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cleanNOTsober


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Man, but I had a big collection of those before the age of digital recordings and mp3s, etc. I'd listen to them whilst driving to various jobs around the province I live in, in my car driving to NoWhere In Particular (a nice place when you can find it!), at night when I'd feel the need to hear some recovery, or whenever the urge would hit me.

I had general "My Story" tapes from conventions and topic workshop tapes, too. Tapes that were over an hour in length and I had to flip over to get the entire message. Tapes I'd listen to so often that they would start to fall apart, if my tape deck didn't try to eat them first. Speaker tapes were a big part of my recovery.

Today, it's the speaker mp3 that is a grounding point for my recovery. I've got over 6GB on my computer from "tapes" I downloaded and copied from my own collection. I have a small 256MB mp3 player that I would slap 10 or 12 recordings onto so I could listen on the bus. Being quite the lazy fellow, I decided to throw my speaker tapes onto my 30GB player so I could have a bigger selection to choose from. I sorted them into various categories or "albums". Albums such as "Pre-2000 Misc" and Post-2000 Misc, or "NA History 03" and "History Conv 90". I rip out little blurbs from some of the speakers I listen to because that small chunk of 2 or 3 minutes sometimes makes me go, "Gee.... wow...." and I can snag a little recovery just from that piece of sharing. I can have the wonder of "one addict helping another" wherever I go today.

I'm posting this because of an entry that BigV put up a few days ago and he talked about listening to a talk by Jimmy K., the guiding force behind the final establishment of NA in the 50's, from way back in '82. It's a history that goes back more than 50 years and is still current even today. It reminded me of the history convention speakers I've listened to over the years and the stories they told about ME in my using & early recovery days.

What I did in that post of BigV's was to pop up some URL's of websites that have speaker mp3's. And I thought that maybe those links deserved to be in a "topic" of their own. Thus, here they are:

http://listen.to/recovery
--- this is a link that BigV posted in his topic. It has Real Player files (.ra), not mp3. They can be converted to mp3 format with a bit of work (a lot??!!) and a coupla freeware programs ---

http://www.carrythemessage.com/static/wedorecoverondemand.htm
--- This site has some complete NA History Conferences. Perfect if you want info on NA's past. Plus many straight up "My Story" sharings. ---

http://www.xa-speakers.org/pafiledb.php?action=category&id=9
--- Nice collection of "Lone Ranger" (as they put it) speakers. I strongly suggest a listen to Greg P from 1988. 21 yrs ago, when I 1st came into NA recovery, and it still rocks me to listen to it. A strong selection of "My Story"s ---

http://www.intherooms.com/library/speaker/view?filter=NA
--- You NEED to sign up for an account with In The Rooms to get to these speakers, but I do suggest it. There are over 400 speakers listed there. Fair warning from an intolerant dick such as me, this is a FaceBook type of networking place that will smother you with the goings-on of everyone you befriend and their friends and their friends. >>I ain't a fan of FaceBook and I refuse "Friend" requests at ITR<<  I love their tapes, tho! ---

http://nachatroom.org/content/speakers.php?id=18#active
--- A cool site where you can listen to the speakers thru streaming. Or download 'em for later "listening enjoyment"!! ---

There we go. Enough online recorded recovery to satisfy the most discriminating recovering addict! Always keep in mind that one should have a hi-speed connection to listen to or download these recordings. Dial-up will keep you online 'til the cows come home (and have been milked, put to bed, out to pasture the next day, and brought back home once more!). Do enjoy these recorded sharings as I have and always will.

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hehe, and then I get to see that BigV already posted the links I just threw on here in another reply!

What's that phrase??? "Great minds think alike"?? Naw, it's just that this mind is a wee bit slow these days...

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lol

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Thank you! i just emailed the links to my friends... I love getting together with a few addicts and listening to speaker tapes:) smile

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Right on Robb those tapes can be life savers, they were for me last week while going through some stuff and feeling pretty bad about myself. Then i opened the first link you have and listened to Jimmy K share OH MAN that really brought me back down to ground level again and helped so much I can't even express how happy it made me hearing the founder of this program sharing about ME LOL.

It's a WE program because we're all pretty similar some are sicker then others some aren't as sick but we all have close ties on so many levels that we dont even understand others and they dont understand us so we stick together and share and find common ground, thanks.

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And if anyone is interested in listening to music by recovering folks, then it is

www.12stepradio.com
www.sunlightofthespirit.com
www.roadrecovery.org


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Here is two guys from the UK National Convention early this month !

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