Welcome to the Recovery Show. We are friends and family members of

alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. We who live

or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction

understand as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own attitudes and we

believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. During this show, we will share our own experiences as they relate to the topic of acceptance.

We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life.

My name is Kelly, and I will be your host today.

Joining me is Swaytha. How are you Swaytha?

Great. Good and also here is Spencer. How you doing Spencer?

I'm doing pretty well.

Good. All right.

Well, our topic today is acceptance and I recently found a reading related to the idea of acceptance

which says that pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.

If I learn to accept that pain is a part of life,

I'll be better able to endure the difficult times and then move on, leaving the pain behind me.

And I really liked the idea of that reading.

It kind of got me to thinking about the difference between my idea of acceptance before the of

me thinking about the difference between my idea of acceptance

before the program and how I feel about acceptance now.

And when I first came to the program, my idea of acceptance was really limited and it was limited to accepting what I thought was right and not accepting things that didn't fall in line

with what I had been taught as right.

I had a really hard time accepting, well we've talked about in previous episodes the idea of being rule

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