Welcome to episode 255 of the recovery show. This episode is brought to you by

Debbie, Kimberly, Catherine, and Sasha. They used the donation button on our

website. Thank you Debbie, Kimberly, Catherine, and

Sasha 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. Today I'd like to share a talk by Ann Marie

R, a loved her humor and her ability to find gifts in troubles. A brief note about the

audio quality, there seemed to be some very brief interruptions here and there in the recording but the essence of her talk the

message that she's worldwide.

And I so want to thank everybody who put this together.

Carolyn and Kaye and her husband, John, and the committee, you you know a lot of work goes into these

conferences and you know it's it all happens because people say yes people step up

they be of service And if you're not of service, you need to step

up. That's what I have to say. So I'm really grateful to be here.

And I really do want to thank Melinda because the thing that I thought was so wonderful

is it's such a testimony to her program, the fact that she was willing to go

any lens, any lens?

And I thought, how wonderful?

I mean, she even called me up and asked me, you know me you know what do you like to eat I thought

okay I guess we're getting a little personal here.

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