Welcome to episode 247 of the recovery show. This episode is brought to you by

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Thank you, Susie, Mary, Debbie, and Eileen 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 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.

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 am your host today.

Today I want to share with you the talk by Nancy S.

She's speaking in 1987 on the topic of negative into positive. She uses some language in

this talk describing her son that feels out of date today, not language that I would use now, but it was 30 years ago.

Thank you, Jody.

Well, it's finally this morning I was thinking as I got up that Naina asked me, I think I've heard every speaker that got up here say this Naina.

She asked me to do this talk months and months ago and I said sure, you know, that's a long way off and you know as with many things they do come here even if you live one day at a time they finally do get here and I don't know how I guess I don't think I had a whole lot of choice about the topic.

I think you just told me the topic.

The topic is turning negatives into positives into positive.

Let me start out by telling you that my name is Nancys.

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