+1 for the speaker tapes. I'd be hard pressed to note a single more helpful thing to me when I first got sober. Gotta thank @newbeginnings for linking me to a speaker tape from there when I first showed up here on the forum desperate and scared out of my wits.
Think I listened to hours upon hours on my iPhone every week. Some of the stories I heard from XA were truly enlightening and honestly allowed me to understand that it CAN be done... that dying drunk need not be my fate. Oh, and that it's very much WORTH IT.