Welcome to episode 244 of the Recovery Show. I want to thank Denise who wrote,

when I heard you speak about violence in the non-alcoholic as a possible topic,

I immediately thought of an Al-Anon talk I heard. It was by Carl H from

Hollywood, California given in Calgary Canada in 2010. He is an excellent

speaker and addresses this topic head on concerning violence towards his alcoholic in this case his wife as well as talking about how the program helped him to heal in other relationships.

It was one of the first talks I ever listened to and got me hooked on listening to open talks in addition to going to meetings and listening to the recovery show.

Thanks again for your service, Denise.

So I checked out Carl's talk and it is excellent. I hope you enjoy it.

Hi, my name is Carl. I promise Chris I would do something hold on a second Oh, I'm not. Oh, I'm going to hold.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, I'm not.

Oh, Oh, Marjorie, thank you so much for inviting me down to speak or up to speak. I consider this a great privilege and I tell you something

like this. I can't tell you how valuable it is to me and I hope it's of some value to you.

If anyone gets called out during this,

I have a three minute version which I'd like to give you

so you'll get the picture.

It's an analogy and as you know, analogies are never perfect, but this one's pretty good.

Before a program I was very much like the family dog.

Absolutely important member of the family and lovable as can be and do anything you wanted to do.

I could run errands, I could fetch, I could guard you.

You know, dogs can be detectives, we can sniff things out. We're rescuers.

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