Month: March 2013

Trusting the process – Episode 17

What does it mean to “trust the process?” What is “the process?” Is it meetings? The Steps? Working with a sponsor? Reading the literature? Swetha, Spencer, and special guest Anne H share our experience, strength, and hope on these questions and others. We welcome special guest Anne H to the podcast. At the beginning, the…

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roll away the stone – a meditation

  In the tomb of the soul, we carry secret yearnings, pains, frustrations, loneliness, fears, regrets, worries. In the tomb of the soul, we take refuge from the world and its heaviness. In the tomb of the soul, we wrap ourselves in the security of darkness. Sometimes this is a comfort, sometimes it is an escape….

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attitudes – a meditation

  The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them. Antoin de Saint-Exupery Before recovery, I used to go through my days judging things as “good” or “bad”. For example, if I fell ill, I saw that as “bad.” When I was recognized and rewarded for a job…

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self focus– a meditation

  We need to learn to live, to focus on something good or useful to our lives and let the rest of the world go about its business. How Can I Help My Children? Today, I flipped open a book and saw this quote. I think it was a Higher Power moment. I was feeling…

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Arbutus O’N – Speaker talk

Arbutus O’N  from Brownwood, TX speaking at the 3rd Anniversary Soberfest in Champaign, IL – October 9th 1993. “My life continues to be unmanageable when I fail to practice the principles that were given to us by a society of ex-drunks …” “There was one group of people … who never gave up on the alcoholics….

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