Tradition 8 – Episode 83
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🗓️ 5 August 2014
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Do you find yourself looking for the “experts” in your meetings? Do you sometimes feel like you have nothing to offer? How do we help one another in Al-Anon? Today, we’re going to talk about Tradition 8, which states “Al-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers.”...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 83 of the Recovery Show. This episode is brought to you by |
| 0:06.0 | Kendall who used the donation button on our website. Thank you Kendall. This |
| 0:10.7 | episode is for you. We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. |
| 0:17.0 | We who live or have lived with a seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps a few others can. So much depends on our |
| 0:25.0 | own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:28.3 | Do you find yourself looking for the experts in your meetings? Do you sometimes feel like you have nothing to offer? |
| 0:35.0 | How do we help one another in Al-Anon? |
| 0:37.0 | Today we're going to talk about Tradition 8, which states, |
| 0:40.0 | Al-Anon, 12-step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. |
| 0:46.0 | Joining me today is co-host Ruth. |
| 0:48.0 | Ruth, could you please read Tradition 8 and German for us? |
| 0:51.0 | Hello Spencer. Yes I can. |
| 0:54.0 | All I know, |
| 0:55.0 | a-n-a-walt if Emma also, |
| 0:58.0 | also a roof-plea. |
| 1:00.0 | Our audience stand, |
| 1:01.0 | you have a year of fuck half. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | Before we begin, we would like to state that though we at the recovery show may be in a 12-step program, |
| 1:10.0 | we represent ourselves rather than the program. |
| 1:13.0 | During this show we will share our own experiences as they relate to the topic of tradition 8. |
| 1:18.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
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