Tom – His sister needed Al-Anon – Episode 256
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🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Tom grew up in a loving, chaotic family. As an adult, he found recovery for his alcoholism, but didn't know how to cope with the alcoholics around him. It wasn't until he decided that his sister needed Al-Anon, that he started attending regularly, and carrying the message back to her. Eventually, he started to see...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 256 of the Recovery Show. This episode is brought to you by |
| 0:06.0 | Penelope, Lucy, Christina, and Deborah. They use the donation button on our |
| 0:09.8 | website. Thank you, Penelope, Lucy, Christina, and Deborah for your generous contributions. |
| 0:14.8 | This episode is for you. |
| 0:16.9 | We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and |
| 0:20.8 | happiness. |
| 0:21.8 | We who live or have lived with a seemingly hopeless problem of addiction |
| 0:24.8 | understand as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that |
| 0:29.7 | changed attitudes can aid recovery. Before we begin, we would like to state that though we at the Recovery Show may be in a 12-step |
| 0:38.0 | program, we represent ourselves rather than the program. |
| 0:41.0 | During this show, we will share our own experiences. The opinions |
| 0:44.9 | express here are strictly those of the person who gave them. Take what you |
| 0:48.8 | like and leave the rest. We hope that you will find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. |
| 0:54.0 | My name is Spencer and I will be your host today. |
| 0:57.0 | Joining me today is Tom. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome, Tom. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, thanks for having me on today. |
| 1:01.0 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:02.0 | And I asked you to pick a reading to open with that had some meaning for you. |
| 1:08.0 | So page 74, which is March 14th of Courage to Change is the Pigeon story and I'll go ahead and read that. |
| 1:17.0 | One beautiful day a man sat down under a tree not noticing it was full of pigeons. |
| 1:22.0 | Shortly the Pigeons did what pigeons do best. |
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