How has your recovery informed your creativity?

Join us as Katie and Karen share their experience.

Welcome to episode 431 of The Recovery Show.

This episode is brought to you by Susan, Tena, Anonymous, and David.

They used the donation button on our website.

Thank you, Susan, Tena, Anonymous, and David 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 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 in this show we represent ourselves rather than any

12-step program. During the 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. I'm your host today and joining me today are Katie and Karen. Welcome to the recovery show.

Hello. Hi. We're so happy to be here.

We'll open with a reading that you chose. Karen,

you go read that? Yeah. That's from Courage to Change, page 41. One of the effects of alcoholism is that many of us have denied or devalued our talents, feelings, achievements, and desires. In Al-Anon, we learn to know, appreciate,

and express our true selves. Creativity is a powerful way to celebrate who we are. It's spiritual

energy that nourishes our vitality. It is a way to replace negative thinking with positive action.

Every one of us is brimming with imagination, but it often takes practice to find it and put it to

use. Yet anything we do in a new way can be creative, building a bookcase, trying a new seasoning

on a vegetable, taking a new approach to handling

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