Begin in Stillness – Episode 231
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🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Begin the new year in stillness, in contemplation of the year past and the year to come. What do you want to let go of from the last year? Write it down. Destroy what you have written (burn it, dissolve it in water, or crumple it up and throw it in the trash.) You don’t...
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| 0:00.0 | What do you aspire to in the past year? |
| 0:05.0 | What do you aspire to in the new year? |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to episode 231 of the Recovery Show. |
| 0:12.0 | This episode is brought to you by Penelope, Jane, Greg, and Gloria. |
| 0:16.0 | They use the donation button on our website. |
| 0:18.4 | Thank you, Penelope, Jane, Greg, and Gloria for your generous contributions. |
| 0:22.9 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:25.5 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity |
| 0:29.1 | and happiness. |
| 0:30.5 | We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps a few others can. |
| 0:35.6 | So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:41.1 | Before we begin, we would like to state that the way the Recovery Show may be in a 12-step program we represent ourselves rather than the program. |
| 0:48.0 | During this show we will share our own experiences. |
| 0:51.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them, |
| 0:54.9 | take what you like, and leave the rest. We hope that you will find something in our sharing |
| 0:59.2 | that speaks to your life. My name is Spencer and I'm your host today. |
| 1:03.0 | Let's start with a reading from Courage to Change. |
| 1:08.0 | This is January 1st reading. |
| 1:11.0 | We live in a society of instant gratification, instant coffee, instant |
| 1:16.2 | breakfast, instant money from our local ready bank machine. It's everywhere we look. |
| 1:20.9 | No wonder so many of us arrive at Al-Anon's doors looking for the instant answer to all the problems that come from living with and loving and alcoholic. |
| 1:28.0 | Recovery is a process. It takes time to regain, reclaim, and recoup all that was lost while we tried on our own to cope with |
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