Hi, this is Dr. Anita here to welcome you back to In The Light.

We're headed into episode 3 of season 2, where we are all about change and growth and recovery.

We kicked off the season with Cheryl Luke talking about the 12-step model of recovery.

And I told you that while the 12-step model is not a silver bullet for everything,

I love that it points out that change is a journey

and that some things we need to do to get better don't necessarily seem to have anything

precisely to do with the issue at hand. Cheryl helped us dive into step one which

says we admitted we were powerless over an issue and that our lives have become

unmanageable. So often we wrestle with the idea of powerlessness but we need to embrace it in order to truly become powerful. The second step in the 12-step

journey is we came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to

sanity.

Even though we didn't talk about Step 2 in Episode 2, I feel like episode 2 really was all about

step 2 because the sanity that feels lost when you are trapped in a behavior or a mindset is exactly what our guests Bishop Rosie and Kara described.

The lesson they taught us was so powerful, especially because Bishop Rosie and Kara seems so different on the

surface. Bishop Rosie is a black preacher from North Carolina and Kara is a white graduate student

in Omaha. Kara is in her graduate student in Omaha.

Kara is in her 20s, while Bishop Rosie has kids in their 20s.

Their issues were completely different,

but their sanity had been challenged by the same trap.

Shame. Shame was undermining their sanity. It had them trying to do the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

But they both recovered by embracing the love of God.

The power that restored them was God's love.

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