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Browse hundreds of Alcoholics Anonymous speaker meetings from around the world — full-length recovery talks focused on the 12 Steps, spiritual awakening, and long-term sobriety.
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Sober Sunrise is a curated archive of full-length AA speaker meetings from around the world. Each recording features members of Alcoholics Anonymous sharing experience, strength, and hope through personal recovery stories that highlight the practical application of the 12 Steps.
This searchable library includes AA speaker tapes focused on the 12 Steps, step work and inventory, sponsorship, spiritual awakening, Big Book study, hitting bottom, and surrender and acceptance, along with long-term sobriety themes. Whether newly sober or decades into recovery, these Alcoholics Anonymous speaker recordings offer insight into living the principles of the program in everyday life.
New AA speaker meetings are added regularly, making this one of the most comprehensive online archives of recovery talks available. Browse by topic, search by keyword, or explore the latest episodes below to find experience, strength, and hope that speaks directly to your journey.
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47 MIN
Where There's Love, There's Service - AA Speaker - Tom F.
Tom F. argues that AA's primary service is one alcoholic helping another alcoholic, not committee meetings or administrative work. He emphasizes that strong ...
May 27, 2026
49 MIN
I Was Stupid Enough to Follow the Instructions - AA Speaker - Ray M.
Ray M., sober since 1996, shares how he worked the steps exactly as his sponsor instructed despite resistance and doubt, discovering that rigorous honesty in...
May 26, 2026
1 HR
The Age of Miracles Is Still With Us - AA Speaker - Dick A.
Dick A. shares his story of growing up in a decorated military family where he felt he didn't fit in, leading to a drinking career that took him from combat ...
May 25, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
My Dark Past Became My Greatest Possession - AA Speaker - Mark B.
Mark B. is a combat veteran and former prisoner who found sobriety in AA in 1988 after years of violence, incarceration, and hitting bottom in a homeless she...
May 24, 2026
1 HR 9 MIN
I Was in Prison Before I Ever Got to Prison - AA Speaker - Wallace B.
Wallace B. describes his alcoholism from age 20 through a life sentence in Central Prison, detailing how he used alcohol to escape feelings of inadequacy and...
May 23, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
Sudden or Gradual, the Fruits Are the Same - AA Speaker - Jay S.
Jay S., an AA speaker, examines William James' "The Varieties of Religious Experience" and its direct influence on AA's spiritual framework, showing how both...
May 21, 2026
50 MIN
I Forgot the Inside Job After 12 Years Sober - AA Speaker - Wesley P.
Wesley P., an AA speaker with 12 years sober, describes how he forgot the principle of deflation and allowed ego to slowly creep back into his life, leading ...
May 20, 2026
48 MIN
I Had a Huge Ego and No Self-Esteem - AA Speaker - Joe D.
Joe D., an AA speaker with over seven months of sobriety, shares his story of growing up with two alcoholic parents, first getting arrested with 490 grams of...
May 19, 2026
1 HR 19 MIN
AA Was Almost Lost Before the Traditions Saved It - AA Speaker - James M.
This AA speaker tape traces the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous through the stories of Roland Hazard, Bill W., and Dr. Bob, highlighting how Carl Jung's rec...
May 18, 2026
3 HR 22 MIN
The Great Gift of AA Is Being Wrong - AA Speaker - Keith L.
Keith L. is an AA speaker with 26+ years continuous sobriety who shares his detailed story of hitting rock bottom and recovery through the 12 steps. He empha...
May 16, 2026
52 MIN
I Cursed God at Port Authority and Found Him in a Hallway - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M. describes how he drank for 16 years and cycled through seven treatment centers without recovery, eventually hitting bottom on the streets of Brookly...
May 15, 2026
48 MIN
The Big Book Never Made a 12-Step Call - AA Speaker - Don C.
Don C., an AA speaker with 35 years sober, argues that while the Big Book contains tremendous knowledge, it cannot replace active sponsorship, twelfth-step w...
May 14, 2026
39 MIN
I Didn't Have a Long Drinking History, I Had a Long Hell History - AA Speaker - Pasha R.
Pasha R. is an AA speaker who distinguishes between having a drinking history and a hell history, explaining how childhood trauma and codependency led to her...
May 13, 2026
3 HR 2 MIN
Do the Stitches and Leave the Patterns Up to God - AA Speaker - Tim H.
Tim H. describes three core patterns that defined his alcoholism: restlessness and discontent, a feeling of being apart from not a part of, and progressive d...
May 12, 2026
56 MIN
The Fifth Step Is Not a Confession - AA Speaker - Chris S.
Chris S., an AA speaker, distinguishes the Fifth Step from confession, explaining that sharing a thorough Fourth Step inventory with another person is about ...
May 11, 2026
43 MIN
Going to Meetings and Not Drinking Doesn't Treat Alcoholism - AA Speaker - Paul M.
Paul M., an AA speaker with 57+ years of sobriety, argues that going to meetings and not drinking do not treat alcoholism; working the 12 steps does. He shar...
May 10, 2026
56 MIN
I Got Sober and Accidentally Became a Service Junkie - AA Speaker - Andrew W.
Andrew W. describes growing up as a first-generation American with an uncomfortable mind, discovering alcohol at 11 and quickly becoming addicted to how it m...
May 8, 2026
54 MIN
The Book Gets Bigger Every Time I Read It - AA Speaker - Charlie P.
Charlie P. shares 38 years of sobriety, starting with his drinking story from age 16 through hitting bottom, relapsing early on, and finally getting grounded...
May 7, 2026
1 HR 8 MIN
I Borrowed My Sponsor's God Until I Found My Own - AA Speaker - Shelly S.
Shelly S. describes her seven-year drinking history, suicidal crisis at 15 months sober, and the day she worked all 12 steps with her sponsor, including the ...
May 6, 2026
1 HR 17 MIN
They Told Me I'd Never Feel Love - AA Proved Them Wrong - AA Speaker - Wayne B.
Wayne B. is an AA speaker with 22+ years sober who was diagnosed as a psychopath and told he'd never experience love. He shares his story from homelessness a...
May 5, 2026
37 MIN
From Eight Years of Warming a Chair to Finally Reading the Book - AA Speaker - Bart R.
Bart R. describes eight years in AA without working the steps, marked by fear, isolation, and the inability to surrender. When his sponsor offered to read th...
May 4, 2026
1 HR 54 MIN
Admitting It Ain't the Same as Fully Conceding It - AA Speaker - Mickey B.
Mickey B. distinguishes between admitting alcoholism and the deeper act of fully conceding to your innermost self that you are alcoholic—what he calls "the...
May 2, 2026
1 HR
From Nine Varsity Letters to Everything I Own in a Cardboard Box - AA Speaker - Frank J.
Frank J., an AA speaker with over 20 years sober, describes his decades-long descent from a athletic high school star and Marine to a divorced, violent polic...
Apr 30, 2026
1 HR 8 MIN
My Ego Wants Me Dead but Will Settle for Me Drunk - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M., sober since June 23rd, 1988, describes his journey from a childhood filled with fear and shame (after his mother's death by suicide), through years...
Apr 29, 2026
1 HR 10 MIN
You Cannot Believe the Glory That's Available to You - AA Speaker - Frank M.
Frank M., a long-sober attorney, demonstrates his precise method for working Steps 4-9, including a three-column inventory format (person, resentment, and se...
Apr 28, 2026
51 MIN
I Was Mr. AA on the Outside and Gasping for Air on the Inside - AA Speaker - Chris P.
AA speaker Chris P. describes 17 years of alcoholic drinking while maintaining a high-achieving corporate facade, culminating in a fatal blackout drunk-drivi...
Apr 27, 2026
1 HR 16 MIN
I Was Everything in AA Except Working the Steps - AA Speaker - Jay P.
Jay P. spent his first year and a half sober in AA attending meetings, making coffee, and doing service work but never touching the steps. When a sponsor fin...
Apr 25, 2026
1 HR 12 MIN
Sobriety Is a Doing Process Not a Learning Process - AA Speaker - Don M.
Don M. describes how his early sobriety breakthrough came when his sponsor told him that sobriety is a doing process, not a learning process, and that he did...
Apr 24, 2026
52 MIN
AA Gives You Riches That Nobody Can Take Away - AA Speaker - Ken B.
Ken B. describes his 50+ years in AA, walking through how he moved from thinking he wasn't an alcoholic to understanding true powerlessness through the mento...
Apr 23, 2026
41 MIN
Things Got Worse Faster Than I Could Lower My Standards - AA Speaker - Tim W.
Tim W. shares his story of hitting bottom on the streets, being convicted of second-degree murder while under the influence, serving time in prison, and find...
Apr 22, 2026
2 HR 25 MIN
I Ran Out of Lies and All My Toughness Just Went Away - AA Speaker - Don P.
Don P., an AA speaker with nearly 30 years of sobriety, shares his journey from a seemingly hopeless life of alcoholism, drug addiction, and incarceration to...
Apr 21, 2026
1 HR 20 MIN
My Parakeet Died With Two Years Sobriety - AA Speaker - Jack H.
Jack H., an AA speaker from San Jose, shares his 60+ year sobriety story beginning with his youth as the only alcoholic in a Tennessee farming family, his Na...
Apr 20, 2026
55 MIN
I Can't Stay Sober on Yesterday's Spiritual Awakening - AA Speaker - Frank M.
Frank M. shares over 22 years of sobriety, describing how his addiction masked deep psychological wounds from a chaotic family and a lifelong sense of not be...
Apr 19, 2026
2 HR 39 MIN
The Steps Are the Diagnosis, the Prescription, and the Medicine - AA Speaker - David A.
David A., sober since 1967, explains that the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous follow a three-part pattern: diagnosis, prescription, and medicine. He emphasi...
Apr 15, 2026
22 MIN
I Called My Sponsor From the VIP Suite With a Beer in My Hand - AA Speaker - Ben H.
Ben H. details his childhood feelings of not belonging, his descent into daily drinking and cocaine/meth use, and his failed attempts to control his drinking...
Apr 14, 2026
56 MIN
From 56 Pages of Chaos to a Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams - AA Speaker - Patti O.
Patti O., a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for 31 years, shares her full recovery story from active alcoholism marked by DUIs, blackouts, and a 56-page crimi...
Apr 13, 2026
1 HR 13 MIN
From Waking Up in Random Cities to Never Wanting a Drink Again - AA Speaker - Chris B.
Chris B. presents a detailed exploration of Steps 1-3, emphasizing Dr. Silkworth's definition of alcoholism as both a physical allergy (abnormal reaction to ...
Apr 12, 2026
1 HR 13 MIN
I Had Ten Meetings a Week and Was Completely Hollow Inside - AA Speaker - Mike L.
Mike L. describes being five years sober but spiritually bankrupt, attending numerous meetings while missing the actual recovery program, much like his colle...
Apr 10, 2026
1 HR 1 MIN
I Said I'm Fine for 40 Years and Never Meant It Once - AA Speaker - David L.
David L. explains how he spent 40 years maintaining a false exterior by saying "I'm fine," driven by deep fear and self-delusion that shaped his thinking int...
Apr 9, 2026
1 HR 28 MIN
My Brain Was the Problem, Not Just the Drinking - AA Speaker - Peter M.
Peter M. is an AA speaker who explains that the main problem for alcoholics lies in the thinking mind, not the body, and that abstinence alone is not recover...
Apr 8, 2026
49 MIN
My 12-Year-Old Daughter Drove Me Home Because I Couldn't- AA Speaker - Tami F.
Tami F. shares her story of alcoholism that began at age 12 and escalated to methamphetamine use while raising four children. She describes the moment her 12...
Apr 7, 2026
55 MIN
Save Me a Seat Were the Last Words I Said to My Sponsor - AA Speaker - Mike M.
Mike M. shares 31 years of sobriety beginning with a suicide attempt in California, where God's grace gave him a clear thought that stopped him from taking h...
Apr 6, 2026
38 MIN
The First Time I Told the Truth I Didn't Catch Fire - AA Speaker - Tony K.
Tony K. describes his path from a control-freak drinker with suicidal thoughts to active recovery through AA sponsorship and step work. His central breakthro...
Apr 3, 2026
2 HR 2 MIN
God Took the Compulsion but I Kept Lying Out of Habit - AA Speaker - Damon G.
Damon G. describes his spiritual sickness before alcohol ever entered the picture, explaining how he became convinced alcohol was the answer, and how hitting...
Apr 2, 2026
55 MIN
I Got Fired Twice From the Same Job in 24 Hours - AA Speaker - Josh H.
Josh H. shares how early alcoholism, severe trauma, and years of drug use led to a suicide attempt at 16 and homelessness by 19. He describes getting fired t...
Apr 1, 2026
1 HR 15 MIN
The Bomb Went Off at 16 Years and the Only Thing Left Was the Meeting - AA Speaker - Steve B.
Steve B. is an AA speaker who has maintained continuous sobriety for 28 years without relapse, offering an atypical recovery story. He discusses the spiritua...
Mar 31, 2026
1 HR 11 MIN
Seven Years of Walking Into AA for Cake and Walking Back Out - AA Speaker - Larry T.
Larry T. shares 26 years of sobriety in an AA speaker meeting, beginning with his story of walking in and out of the rooms for seven years, using meetings as...
Mar 30, 2026
44 MIN
Everyone Said My Case Was Too Special for the Regular Program - AA Speaker - Susan D.
Susan D., an AA speaker, describes decades of hidden alcoholism rooted in severe childhood sexual abuse, developing an obsession with alcohol that she concea...
Mar 28, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M.
Dave M. was pronounced dead twice from alcoholic cardiomyopathy after decades of drinking despite multiple interventions, jail stays, and suicide attempts. H...
Mar 27, 2026
1 HR 3 MIN
They Pronounced Me Dead Twice and I Still Wasn't Done Drinking - AA Speaker - Dave M.
Dave M. was pronounced dead twice in the hospital on May 26, 1981, after years of uncontrolled drinking despite warnings from doctors that his alcoholic hear...
Mar 27, 2026
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