I am 5 days sober and have come to the realization my life depends on the AA programs/people. I am extremely grateful to hear people like Anthony Hopkins speak of his struggles. It makes me feel not so lonely in this disease.

Thank you for posting these videos. Im a member of AA and I have been sober since August 1980. Now I am getting old and unable to get to meetings on a regular basis, so these videos help me to achieve another sober day. Thank you.

@WeDoRecover12

7 жыл бұрын

No problem, it's comments like this that keep us going, and that's what it's all about!

@seanreynolds9535

7 жыл бұрын

God

@WeDoRecover12

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for listening :) Here's another talk by Anthony H. if you haven't heard it yet. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYiJztWGobCxp8o.html

@georgeregenold3685

3 жыл бұрын

Staying Safe, that's US today. You are Never Alone Never Again through God's Grace and Mercy WE have aged.

Thank you, Mr Hopkins. I love your story.

I always loved Anthony H as an actor, but now I have so much more respect for him!

Isn't it amazing to realize this is what Anthony Hopkins really sounds like. The man and not the actor. At ease being himself with his AA family. That's the extraordinary magic of AA.

@jorerafael6717

Жыл бұрын

Feliz 24 horas compañeros

@samanthamansi1184

Жыл бұрын

Yes definitely I didn’t know he went to AA

@bronwyntanner4501

11 ай бұрын

Just marvelous

I never imagined that this extremely talented actor had the same problem as me, I'm so grateful that Sir Anthony Hopkins spoke on this. It just shows that no matter who you are, booze can destroy you if you don't abstain from it.

@WeDoRecover12

6 жыл бұрын

Here's another talk by Anthony H. if you haven't heard it yet. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYiJztWGobCxp8o.html

@kennethrjackman6563

3 жыл бұрын

I think you should refer to him as Tony H......... I think that is what he would prefer. I heard another very famous actor one night at a meeting in LA say "I have never once broken my anonymity. But tonight, you will break it for me when you tell your friends that you were in a meeting with me." Sadly........he was totally right. When we tell people not in AA about who we see in meetings, we are the ones breaking the Tradition of anonymity.

@strikerorwell9232

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennethrjackman6563 I cant understand how I personally would start telling others who I meet at a meeting? Im new in this and I am freezing with a horrible withdrawals. I have to fight each day to go to a meeting, Im so grateful you guys in the AA and NA exist!

@kirstenjones1825

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@davidcoleman1861

Жыл бұрын

Very true! The disease doesn’t discriminate!

I love listening to people in recorvey not sober that have years under there belt sober is ok but rrecorvery is where it's at great talk thanks for putting this & the rest it makes me not alone even when I am

I am an alcoholic and I have been sober for nearly 7 months with the AA fellowship. I listen to this video often. It's everything to me ❤

Thanks for Sharing Tony. Glad to be Here and 15 Months Sober. Keep On...Keeping On...ODAAT.

I am an alcoholic and ODAAT I am 1 year sober. I listen to this speech often. It's everything ❤❤❤

Thanks needed this

Love these meetings

Thank you, SO much!

Beautiful,inspirational,humble man.Helping other recovering alcoholics.Giving back as he has been Blessed. Thanks for sharing.

I really love this story.

im debi,14 years recoveing alcholic now 2014.this is so awesome tobable to listen on my laptop if icant make it to a meeting i can do this and not leave myhome thank u so very much whom ever discovered this great idea. debi fry

@WeDoRecover12

6 жыл бұрын

Here's another talk by Anthony H. if you haven't heard it yet. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYiJztWGobCxp8o.html

39:35 .... I was 6 months sober, thinking of drinking, don't know why but I listened to this audio instead. I got sober at the clubhouse in Kissimmee, and as soon as I heard him mention it I jumped up, not wanting to drink anymore. We are truly the luckiest people alive. Thanks for keeping me sober, Tony. It's been nearly nine years since I have had a drink. Thanks to AA and God.

Great Listening!

Thanks Tony

Thank you

Thanks for sharing.

This is fantastic.

Fantastic x

Thank You for not doing a drunk-a-log. It was easy to listen and to identify.

this is so helpful for me

love you for improving your life.

Great aa speaker meeting.

Thankyou,

One prayer at a time for a Group Of Drunks like us... Tony H. Bless you and thank you as well to the people sharing this message.

Fantastic im just over a yr sober, and I've just started listening to these, and I heard him say something, which I may of heard before during meetings or in general, but it made me understand something a friend says, and how wrong he is in saying so, thanks...

good talk

I couldn't see my life with or without alcohol or drugs and I was nervous breakdown crazy in conflict but I knew I either had to surrender or die because I was on my way there if I kept going the way I was going and that's why I went to 12 step meetings in the first place because I couldn't control something that was controlling my every decision, so I did what was suggested in the rooms of A.A. at the time, prayer, big book, look for sponsor ect, but at the bottom line it was only the first 2 that worked, the fellowship just gave the typical suggestions, I finally was guided by God and his angels to a Big Book step study group which turned everything around for me because I was willing, this was in 1990. Now I just study and practice A Course In Miracles because it's the only thing that resonates with me. Turns out that for me the steps, the fellowship, and the rest of what A.A. "is" are just pointers to what The Real Deal is, necessary tools to move from pain to Enlightenment. in the end the "Group Of Drunks" the chips and the rest of A.A. are all just illusions, because love is all there is, so, as arrogant as this may sound I've accepted God for them, because if I told them The Truth well...they just wouldn't accept it. Together We Ascend; Adrian

@optimisticzebra8498

6 жыл бұрын

Adrian Lee I relate a lot. T took me 3 tries...and now I could imagine my life with my program. Being able to quit drugs and alcohol is a miracle but the change in my mind is priceless.

I am proud of you.

Still cant believe Anthony Hopkins is an alcoholic. Its like the best thing that ever happened for alcoholism.

@ItsNotDarkYet

6 жыл бұрын

My sponsor gave me these tapes around 2004/2005. That's about the only thing I got from A.A. lol I mean, I was sober for 5 years, but broke down and became normal again. lol

brillant

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Buenas tardes grupo Vancouver Saludos a todos...☕

@jorerafael6717

Жыл бұрын

Gracias FELIZ 24 Horas compañeros solo por hoy.si se puede.

@jorgefernandez4644

Жыл бұрын

@@jorerafael6717 ♥️Alcolicos Anonimos...☕

Wow, I also began my journey by going to central office first.

thank you for sharing. I shall add this to my library of speaker tapes; we truly are, all of us, so very much alike...add great humor to the great sorrow, or what could have been, until we come to believe. Cut down? My friends had asked me to slow down...lol....my brakes were broken. nothing but an entire reverse direction, change of ideas , come to find faith, of some sort....

@WeDoRecover12

6 жыл бұрын

Here's another talk by Anthony H. if you haven't heard it yet. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYiJztWGobCxp8o.html

ronnie s. san angelo looking for speaker for concho valley conference may 5,6,&7 2017. would love to have A. Hopkins

When it comes down to it is the "skill" of overcoming addiction being able to See triggers in real time and say "no!" ? (-whether its with help of steps and prayer or whatever)

@krustysurfer

Жыл бұрын

There is a spiritual force that steps in to run the show when we cannot, its not willpower, Intelligence, wisdom its- G-ood O-rderly D-irection that dwells within after we surrender to that force of Love.

life without drugs as my solution is great.

Is that Anthony Hopkins?

@mountaintruth1

8 жыл бұрын

+Ben Anderson yup

@WeDoRecover12

6 жыл бұрын

Here's another talk by Anthony H. if you haven't heard it yet. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYiJztWGobCxp8o.html

@iadorakelley5025

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It sure does sound like Anthony Hopkins! But then, we know there are quite a few good impersonators. Regardless, I don't think he's said anything that isn't helpful and consistent with the program. And that supports it's value.

@bettybeepbeep2363

5 жыл бұрын

@johnlarocque8373

5 жыл бұрын

What moves was he in?

@DarrenRhinehardt Yo lump is my bro from long ago. Where did he go?

Stewardess quote is spot o n funny identification x

@kazzywray9091

8 жыл бұрын

Fantastic

hey tony

Listen to the real actor's in the background

when is this from?

@AnthonyL0401

6 жыл бұрын

Nicole Yonnotti Circa 1997 based on his timeline given in his share

@arctichare8185

5 жыл бұрын

Listen to him again and you will hear when it was spoken.

Last time I heard him in Manhattan Beach got sober because they had tequila United States that's why he came here from England for the 1st reason

That got reaally weird at the end

I recognize the voice. 🤓

Hard to be anonymous for some of us. It can be a HUGE handicap sometimes. Next time, I'm gonna assume a fake name? Nah, just kidding :-) Progress NOT perfection! lol

@dumontwelliver1535

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I announce I'm anonymous

Cockadoodle dont

Hannibal lector

lol

Shortydog1

I bet Sir Anthony H is speaking a the big AA meeting in heaven. God bless

@chaos4854

8 жыл бұрын

he's still alive

@fabianstanley13

8 жыл бұрын

He's still alive and kicking, Cheri Fitzgerald. :) Thank God for that.

@nicoleohare9491

5 жыл бұрын

He is alive and sober

@AssPhyxiation

3 жыл бұрын

In heaven? Are you drunk? He's still alive.

@kennethlodwig4024

Жыл бұрын

Not only is he alive.... he won another Oscar!

Love this man- but just because he is a famous actor does not make him an expert. Watch a New Documentary called The 13th Step on Amazon.

@camrock76

7 жыл бұрын

Monica Richardson expert on what?

@camrock76

7 жыл бұрын

Monica Richardson do you mean drinking or sobriety. Because I didn't hear anything but a story. Take it for what you will. He's definitely no expert on anything I'd imagine

@codybarrett6192

5 жыл бұрын

Just sounded like a testimony to me

@arctichare8185

5 жыл бұрын

I do not hear him saying he is an "expert" alcoholic.

@kennethrjackman6563

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't make him an expert. But he's not speaking as an expert. He's speaking as someone who can testify to what AA has done for him. And considering he now has 45+ years of sobriety........I think he's definitely got what it takes to be a featured speaker.

Who is breaking our Anonymity. This is not right .

@AssPhyxiation

3 жыл бұрын

Read up. He has said he is happy with sharing his story.

@kirstenjones1825

2 жыл бұрын

Cockadoodle do os

@krustysurfer

Жыл бұрын

He is sharing his experience hope and strength

Anonymous????? Who are these anonymity breakers. Anonymity !!!!!!

@AssPhyxiation

3 жыл бұрын

Read up. He has said he is happy with sharing his story.

@kirstenjones1825

2 жыл бұрын

Cockadoodle dont

@krustysurfer

Жыл бұрын

Tony H. The limey tequila cowboy no anonymity broken.

AA is for quiters, LOL

@TheJackster8469

5 жыл бұрын

Troll.

@krustysurfer

Жыл бұрын

The best kind 😎

NA>AA

@AnthonyL0401

6 жыл бұрын

Jt Boy78 Depends on one's perspective

@elvissoto4661

4 жыл бұрын

Jt Boy78 they are both the same beautiful solution

Did you have Sir Anthony's permission to post this video? Or any other video? Because if what I know is true, you're the reason he can no longer go on the speaker's circuit. You've broken his anonymity. And that's unacceptable.

@kennethrjackman6563

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't mention his full name once. And the posting doesn't list his full name. YOU have broken his anonymity by identifying him.

Thank you