The thing that I hated most about myself and was so fearful to share with others has now become my favorite thing to talk to others about.

He took my mess, and he made it his message.

Recovery's not easy, and new challenges come up every day, every year, but I would choose the heart of recovery over the heart of addiction

any day of the week. Welcome to the Storytellers Live podcast where everyday women are gathering

in homes across the country to share stories of the hope found in Jesus. I'm Katie Dunn. I'm Robin Cowen,

and I'm Lindy Walker, and we are your podcast host. Welcome back.

We are rolling right along here in January.

We're excited as we are doing more workshops and speaking events as a ministry,

wanting to bring content out into the community.

So in 2026, if you are planning a women's event, a conference,

if you would like us to come and do a

Finding God in the Details Workshop, we would love to come to your community. There's going to be a

link in our show notes as well, and I would love to talk to you about opportunities for your

church or small group. So tell us to our storyteller. All right, today we have Helen Hanson

Smith, who is from Fair Hope. And I love when God brings us different

topics at the right time. First of all, our communities have done a great job of bringing really

diverse stories. I don't know if you have listeners, I've noticed. We just have really unique

stories, and this is one of those. So Helen Hanson is sharing about being an alcoholic in her 20s and what that looked like late in college and in her life.

And this is just a perfect story for January is, you know, last week we talked about financial situations today, drinking or any other habits or addictions.

You have.

Next week we actually have a great story on marriage.

And these are all January New Year topic. Yeah. Yeah. They have. Next week, we actually have a great story on marriage. And I should like these are all January new year topic. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so excited to really dig into the discussion on Helen Hanson's story. The verse of the week this week is one from the Psalms. It's Psalm 374 and it says, take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart and we're going to talk a

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