AG Speaker Meeting Pamela August 25, 2026

Hello.

Hi, my name is Pamela.

I'm an alcoholic.

Hi, Pamela.

And thank you to Jordan and the Atlantic Group, all of you, for having me.

Um, I'd like to share a few specifics about my sobriety, uh, for identification purposes.

I like to say first that I have a sponsor, and that throughout my sobriety I have had a sponsor, and I'm grateful to the people who have been my sponsor.

I also currently have a home group where I am twice a week or more.

Um, we have two meetings a week in Riverdale, up in the Bronx, down to earth.

Two great meetings a week, and, um, it's a wonderful, uh, community of, uh, recovery, recovery community there.

Next thing I wanna say is that I have a sobriety date, and I saved that for the last, because my sobriety date is actually this month.

[audience cheering]

And on August 14th, I celebrated 39 years.

[audience cheering] And that is a miracle.

And the people who will celebrate tonight are all miracles from one on.

But I like to say, what I was thinking about this month is that it's no less a miracle than that I ever came here at all, because this is the last place I ever wanted to be.

There have been times when I've been sober, and it was still not my first choice.

[laughing]

There seemed like so many other fun things to do, easier, softer ways.

Um, yeah, I want instant answers to all nagging problems, so, uh, beginning with feelings.

Um, just to, again, for a little identification purposes, I, um, always like to say I did not grow up in an alcoholic home.

That's just how it is.

But I always wanted to drink.

I always wanted to drink.

Drinking looked good to me at four.