Start where you are. When change comes, as it always does, it helps to know who you are.

Welcome to episode 177 of the recovery show.

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

So much depends on our own attitudes and we 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 you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life.

My name is Spencer and I'll be your host today. I want to start with a reading. This is an excerpt from the book by Pima Children. Start where you are and it's

from chapter six also titled start where you are. It's a little story about a Tibetan Buddhist monk named Milarepa.

One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled

with demons.

They were cooking his food, reading his books, sleeping in his bed. They had taken over the joint.

He knew about non-duality of self and other, but he still didn't quite know how to get these guys out of his cave.

Even though he had the sense that they were just a projection of his own mind all the unwanted parts of himself, he didn't know how to get rid of them.

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