Best of: Our first meetings
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🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 88 minutes
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What was your experience of your first Al-Anon meeting? Maybe you haven't been to one yet. Spencer, Kelli, Swetha and 7 other members talk about their first meeting or meetings. Hear how we came to believe that they could find help in Al-Anon. For some of us, the first meeting was transformational and enlightening. Others of...
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| 0:00.0 | And I burst into tears and I started crying and I apologized. |
| 0:04.3 | I was like, I don't know why I'm crying. |
| 0:06.5 | And I don't know who it was, but they handed me the tissue box and said, |
| 0:10.5 | never ever apologize for crying at an Al-Anon meeting. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to episode 26 of the recovery show. |
| 0:17.0 | This episode is brought to you by Anne H and Thomas P. |
| 0:20.0 | They use the donation basket button on our website. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you, Anne and Thomas, for your generous contributions. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:27.0 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. |
| 0:32.0 | We who live or have lived with a seemingly hopeless problem of addiction |
| 0:35.4 | understand as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that |
| 0:40.5 | changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:43.0 | Today we're going to talk about what it was like when we first came to Al-Anon. |
| 0:47.3 | Do you remember your first meeting? |
| 0:48.9 | What do you remember about it? |
| 0:50.1 | Did it click with you right away or did it take some time? |
| 0:53.0 | When did you realize that the program was right for you? |
| 0:56.0 | How did that happen? |
| 0:57.0 | We and our guests will answer these questions and more. |
| 1:00.0 | Before we begin, we would like to state that though we and our guests may be in a 12-step program, |
| 1:04.2 | we represent ourselves rather than the program. |
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