Welcome to episode 79 of the Recovery Show. This episode is brought to you by

Diane, Natalie, Diane, and Sandra. They used the donation button on our website.

Thank you, Diane, Natalie, Diane, and Sandra for your

generous contributions. This episode is for you. We are friends and family

members of Allecks and addicts who have found a path to serenity and

happiness. We who live or have lived with a 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.

How is it Alan unfunded? Why don't we take outside contributions? What if we all lived

our lives in that way? Today we're going to talk about Tradition 7 which states

every group ought to be fully self-supporting declining outside contributions.

And my guest today is Ruth and Ruth could you read Tradition 7 in German?

Hello Spencer, yes I can, of course.

Zip the Tradition. Ghed a group,

so seps the Helden and from a house and come to

sure long a-plane.

And that's, I think that's our shortest tradition.

Yes, it looks like.

We, one of the meetings that I go to reads all 12 traditions at the beginning of the meeting

and I always am astounded at how long some of them are seem at least and this one is so short and it says so much

Yeah, I think it is pretty clear. Why do you think we have this tradition?

Well, I actually wanted to

start with a reading here from Courage to Change.

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