Step 12: A Journey into Spiritual Awareness – 439
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
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Spencer and Eric explore Step 12, “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.” We follow the reading on the step from the book How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics, interleaving it...
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| 0:00.0 | Have you had a spiritual awakening? |
| 0:03.0 | How do you carry the message of recovery and how are you practicing recovery principles in your own life? |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to episode 439 of The Recovery Show. |
| 0:13.0 | This episode is brought to you by Amy, Megan, and Alba. |
| 0:16.0 | They use the donation button on our website. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you, Amy, Megan, and Alba for your generous |
| 0:21.8 | contributions. This episode is for you. We are friends of family members of alcoholics and addicts |
| 0:28.5 | who have found a path to serenity and happiness. We who live or have lived with the seemingly |
| 0:32.8 | hopeless problem of addiction, understand as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own attitudes |
| 0:39.0 | and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. Before we begin, we'd like to say that |
| 0:45.3 | in this show, we represent ourselves rather than any 12-step program. During the show, we will |
| 0:51.6 | share our own experiences. The opinions expressed here are certainly those of the person who gave them, |
| 0:57.0 | make which the like and leave the rest. |
| 0:59.0 | We hope that you'll find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. |
| 1:03.1 | My name is Spencer. |
| 1:04.1 | I am your host today along with Eric, who has co-hosted so many episodes. |
| 1:10.4 | Our most recent one was Grief and Relief episode 429. |
| 1:14.8 | I just wrote down, um, teeth. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, it's 40-something. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.9 | The last time you said, 40-some odd, and I said, yeah, some much odder than others. |
| 1:24.2 | Always true, always, especially with you. |
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