The Family in Recovery – Episode 230
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🗓️ 25 December 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this recording from the 2010 AA Woodstock of the South, Bob B, Polly P, Ralph W, Michael E, Bill R, and Linda B share their experiences of family recovery in Al-Anon and AA. Upcoming topics include parenting. Please call us at 734-707-8795 or email [email protected] with your experience, strength and hope. Our contact page has more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 230 of the recovery show because I'm traveling during the Christmas holiday. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm sharing with you a panel of six people from Al-Anon and AA talking about the topic of family in recovery. I found some real wisdom in here and some |
| 0:18.0 | laughs and I hope you do too. I'm an alcoholic. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay welcome to the family meeting. |
| 0:25.0 | If we open this meeting with the Serenity prayer please. |
| 0:30.0 | God, God, granted is trending, except the things I cannot change. |
| 0:38.0 | Courage to change the things I can. |
| 0:41.0 | And listen to my appearance. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:49.0 | So we have six of us that are on the panel, so each of us is going to talk about 10 minutes and talk about our experience with both with recovery and family. |
| 1:00.0 | Family dynamics are. family dynamics or lack of them. |
| 1:07.0 | And I think, I agreed to chair this panel if Bill wasn't on it, but Bill's here. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't know how the hell I ended up having to do that. |
| 1:19.0 | And Polly, would you start us out please? |
| 1:23.0 | Okay, I can't see my wife, so you have to. |
| 1:26.0 | You'll have to help me out with time. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi everybody, my name is Polly Pistle and I'm an alcoholic. |
| 1:32.0 | And I'm really glad to be here and I'm really grateful for the for the programs of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon. |
| 1:44.0 | I am, there's been an enormous amount of family recovery in our family. |
| 1:51.0 | I have two sons and those two sons went through my alcoholism with me. |
| 2:00.0 | They were 14 and 16 years old when I got sober and and I was an alcoholic for about 16 well I drank for about 16 years and so these kids went entirely through my alcoholism with me. |
| 2:17.0 | And what has happened as a result of that is I'm a woman who should never have been allowed to keep these kids. I was |
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