Have my first speaking engagement on a Zoom meeting with the AA group I started out with (since switched to an affiliated meeting at a different time). I just passed a year sober. Any advice for telling my story?

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Divide your time into three roughly equal sections, each for what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now. Don't spend too much time in your drinking history, and tell the plain truth (don't try to be entertainingor dramatic).

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Share from the heart. Focus more on your strength and hope than war stories, in my opinion. But what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now.

Agree with IBM. Thirds is the route. These shares are about your personal experience and how you went from where you were to where you are. Tell the stories of what your sponsor told you, tell the stories about what you heard in meetings that landed with you.
I always tell about how my sponsor told me to say the prayer from the big book about asking HP to divorce me of self pity, self seeking motives and dishonesty each day and how that process changed my thinking.
I also tell about how open my eyes were after doing the work on the forth step.

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