What trauma has alcoholism brought into your life? How are you healing from it?

Welcome to episode 237 of the Recovery Show. This episode is brought to you by Holly, Susan, Kristen, Mary, and Mary Ann. They use

the donation button on our website. Thank you, Holly, Susan, Mary, and Mary Ann for your generous

contributions. This episode is for you.

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 a seemingly helpless problem of addiction understand as perhaps a few others can.

So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Before we begin, we would like to state that though we at the recovery show may be in a 12-step program,

we represent ourselves rather than the program.

During this show, we will share our own experiences.

The opinions expressed here are strictly those

of the person who gave them. Take what you like and leave the rest. We hope that you will find

something in our sharing that speaks to your life. My name is Spencer and I'm your host today. Reading today is from our daily

reader Courage to Change June 4th. The second step is about possibility, about hope.

With this step we come to believe that a power greater

than ourselves could restore us to sanity. We are asked to open our minds to the possibility that

help is available. Perhaps there is a source of assistance that can do for us what we have been unable to do for ourselves.

We don't have to believe that it will happen only that it could.

This little bit of hope, this chink in the armor of despair is enough to show that we are willing to move in the direction of healing.

Once we recognize that the possibility of help exists, it seems worthwhile to explore relationship with a higher power.

A little willingness can go a long way toward making hope and faith and ongoing

part of our lives. In the hands of a higher power sanity and serenity become realistic hopes.

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