Is there a stone blocking the tomb of your soul? Have you crawled inside to escape the pain of life?

How can we roll that stone away.

Welcome to episode 199 of the Recovery Show.

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Shayna, Susan, and Kamala. They use the donation button on our website.

Thank you, Salihan, Lela, L'Orian, Laura, Kim, Shaina, Susan, and Kamala for your generous contributions.

This episode, and the past episode because it's been two weeks since I've thanked donors

there for you. We are friends and family members of

alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. We who

will ever 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 believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Before we

begin we would like to state that though 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. is I wanted to start with a reading that sort of inspired the title of this episode.

The reading is an excerpt from a work titled Rolling Away the Stone by Sarah York.

In the Tomb of the Soul, we carry secret yearnings, pains, frustrations, loneliness, fears, regrets, worries, worries.

In the Tomb of the Soul soul we take refuge from the world and its heaviness. In the

tomb of the soul we wrap ourselves in the security of darkness. Sometimes this is a comfort, sometimes it is an escape. Sometimes it

prepares us for experience. Sometimes it insulates us from life.

Sometimes this tomb life gives us time to feel the pain of the world and reach out to heal others.

Sometimes it numbs us and locks us up with our own concerns.

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