Embracing Spiritual Growth Through Step 11 – 438
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
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Step 11 of the 12-step recovery program suggests that we can improve our conscious contact with a higher power through prayer and meditation. Spencer and Sara share personal insights and experiences that highlight the transformative power of this step as part of our spiritual growth in recovery. Understanding Step 11 Our conversation is structured by...
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| 0:00.0 | Do you pray? Do you meditate? How are you improving your conscious contact with a power greater |
| 0:06.9 | than yourself? Welcome to episode 438 of The Recovery Show. This episode is brought to by Paula, Lori, |
| 0:13.8 | and Lauren. They use the donation button on our website. Thank you, Paula, Lori, and Lauren for your |
| 0:19.8 | generous contributions. This episode is for you. |
| 0:22.6 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. |
| 0:28.6 | We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps few others can. |
| 0:34.6 | So much depends on our own attitudes, and we believe that changed attitudes can aid |
| 0:38.8 | recovery. Before we begin, we would like to state that in this show we represent ourselves |
| 0:45.4 | rather than any 12-step program. During the show, we will share our own experiences. The opinions |
| 0:51.6 | expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 0:55.0 | Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| 0:57.0 | We hope that you will find something in our sharing today and it speaks to your life. |
| 1:02.0 | My name is Spencer. |
| 1:03.0 | I am your host today. |
| 1:04.0 | Joining me today is Sarah, and you are here pretty recently to talk about participation |
| 1:09.0 | as a key to harmony, our fourth concept of |
| 1:13.0 | service on episode 433. So welcome back. Thank you for having me. I really enjoy the conversations. |
| 1:20.9 | Today we're going to be talking about step 11. And we'll start with reading from the book |
| 1:27.1 | How Alonon works, chapter 8, the section on Step 11, which, depending what version of the book you have, is on pages 61 to 62 or maybe 62 to 63. |
| 1:38.3 | Step 11, sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood |
| 1:44.2 | him, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out. |
| 1:49.5 | Would you like to read the first paragraph? |
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