Sponsorship: a prompt – Episode 140
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🗓️ 2 February 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Do you have a sponsor? Do you sponsor others in the program? How has your sponsor supported your recovery? How has being a sponsor supported and enriched your recovery? Tell us about it! Two of us share our experience as a sponsor, and of being sponsored, and then challenge you to share your experience, strength,...
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a sponsor others in the program? How has your sponsor |
| 0:06.8 | supported your recovery? How is being a sponsor supported and enriched your |
| 0:11.1 | recovery? Welcome to episode 140 of the recovery show. |
| 0:14.9 | Today, we will share two prompts about sponsorship |
| 0:17.9 | and then ask you to contribute your own thoughts |
| 0:20.0 | for an upcoming episode on sponsorship. |
| 0:23.0 | This episode is brought to you by Lucy and Lauren. |
| 0:25.7 | They use the donation button on our website. |
| 0:27.6 | Thank you, Lucy and Lauren, for your generous contributions. |
| 0:30.8 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:33.0 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to surrendering in happiness. |
| 0:38.0 | We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of, understand as perhaps few others can. |
| 0:44.4 | So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:49.7 | 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. |
| 0:57.0 | During this year, we will share our own experiences. |
| 0:59.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 1:03.3 | Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| 1:05.0 | I hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. |
| 1:08.2 | My name is Spencer and I'm your host today. |
| 1:11.0 | Joining me virtually as co-host Karen. A couple of weeks ago, Karen sent me a lead |
| 1:16.2 | that she had written about sponsorship that she intended to open a meeting with. |
| 1:21.1 | I asked her if she'd be willing to record it so I could share it on the show. |
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