Welcome to episode 263 of the Recovery Show.

This episode is brought to you by Karen, Darlene, Lucy, and Catherine.

They used the donation button on our website.

Thank you, Karen, Darlene, Lucy and

Catherine for your generous contributions. This episode is for you. We are

friends and family members of Alcoholics and Attics 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

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. We represent ourselves rather than the program. 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 this sharing that speaks to your life.

Today, as I mentioned last week, I'm sharing with you a presentation by Mary Pearl T on Step 2.

Step 2 came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

A higher power, what was my higher power? I was my higher power. There was no higher power than me.

Now, I wasn't always like that but from the age of 12 I was. You see my daddy I

I worship my daddy we had all the fun in the world together and my daddy would take me with him fishing and

hunting because he retired and he raised bird dogs and we trained them and we'd go hunting

and we'd go fishing and I just loved being with my daddy. My mother was a workaholic. My mother felt like if you weren't working and producing something you had no value whatsoever.

So she would stay at home and when I'd go to my mother about something she'd say shut up leave me along

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