SHAIR 113: "The Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality" with Dr. Jane Galloway, Author of The Gateways.
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Jane Galloway the author of The Gateways- The Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. The Gateways are...A Gateway, a Bridge, an Opening into living the Spiritual Life that the Steps promise! What YOU get from this is TOOLS, Inspiration, Time to release the Shame and move into the FREEDOM.
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Is there more to recovery than just staying sober and clean? Dr. Jane Galloway offers an emphatic "yes" to this question in her groundbreaking 12 Step companion guide, The Gateways: The Wisdom of 12-Step Spirituality. Galloway presents the 12 Steps squarely in the context of 21st-century spirituality with breadth, skill, and sensitivity that helps readers of any faith (or of none) experience profound spiritual awakening.
Too many recovery programs fixate on the sickness of addiction and, as a result, trap people in a pathology-centered mindset. Jane Galloway's strength-based approach suggests "Rather than obsessing on what is 'wrong' with a person, learning what is 'right' with them may hold the key to understanding." Incorporating ancient developmental systems like Chinese meridians and the Kabbalah Tree of Life, as well as more recent psychological systems like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Erik Erikson's Eight Ages of Man, Gateways presents 12-Step Spirituality as a Wisdom Path. Galloway's 12 corresponding Gateway Essences unlock the power of the Steps through spiritual practices and rituals that make up a customized, holistic Mind, Body, Spirit tool kit.
As a 30+ year member of Alcoholics Anonymous, ordained pastor and Doctor of Ministry, accomplished stage and screen actor, and community organizer, the Rev. Dr. Jane Galloway brings a woman's voice to the chorus of men who have previously spoken on 12-Step spirituality. Her work is inspired by and devoted to AA's founding spiritual vision as it appears in "The Big Book": "To us the realm of Spirit is broad, roomy, all inclusive; never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek." The Gateways opens wider vistas to the deeper wisdom within us all.
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Join us today as Jane takes us through her battle with Drugs and Alcohol and her inspiring journey into recovery. You don't want to miss this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | My spiritual awakening is what got me sober. |
| 0:05.5 | So they happened simultaneously. |
| 0:07.2 | So a light came into the room. |
| 0:08.7 | I was drunk or I had been drinking all night and the light came in the room and said it's over. |
| 0:12.6 | It's the drinking. |
| 0:13.8 | And from that moment, I was propelled into another whole thing. |
| 0:17.8 | So they were simultaneous. |
| 0:19.3 | That was Dr. Jane Galloway, and this is the Share Podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | It's time for the Share Recovery Podcast, where we bring you amazing life-changing success stories |
| 0:30.1 | from addicts and alcoholics all over the world who share their inspiring journey |
| 0:34.1 | and recovery. |
| 0:35.1 | And now here's your host, Oh. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of The Share Podcast, and today we have Dr. Jane Galloway |
| 0:46.5 | joining us on the show. And Jane is the author of The Gateway's, The Wisdom of Twelve Step |
| 0:52.1 | Spirituality. Now, in this episode, we take a few different twists and turns |
| 0:57.1 | as far as the interview format goes, because there's a lot of topics to touch on, especially when it |
| 1:01.8 | comes to spirituality. There's so many avenues for connecting with your higher power. And for many of us, |
| 1:09.4 | we were raised to believe that there was only one spiritual path to connect us with our higher power. And for many of us, we were raised to believe that there was only one spiritual |
| 1:12.5 | path to connect us with our higher power, whether that be through religion or whether it be |
| 1:16.8 | through some sort of spiritual practice. And Jane's purpose for writing the book is to springboard |
| 1:21.8 | from the completion of the 12 steps in whatever 12-step fellowship you are a part of, and then enhancing your |
| 1:28.7 | understanding of the 11th step. It's a fascinating interview. We had a lot of fun doing it. So let's |
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