How have you experienced the effects of alcoholism or addiction transforming into the effects of recovery? Colleen suggested this topic, writing “we often hear about the effects of this disease, but I’ve never heard the phrase, the effects of recovery. It has really made me reflect, as I have found over the past couple of…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:07:30 — 31.0MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
Do you have trouble making decisions? What have you learned in recovery helps you make decisions? Eric, Spencer, and several of you share about indecision and making decisions. Our conversation was guided by these questions. Definition: a choice that you make about something after thinking about several possibilities the ability to decide quickly and without…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:18:36 — 36.0MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
How can we use our recovery tools to help us when our loved ones are suffering from mental illness? Is it harder when our loved one is our child? Roberta shares her experience, strength, and hope around these questions. Our conversation was guided by these questions. How/when did you come to Al-Anon? Give as much…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:41:32 — 46.6MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
If I’m not the problem, then there is no solution. Huh? How does this make sense for my recovery. Spencer, Eric and several listeners share our thoughts about this idea. How would you have felt about this statement before you came into recovery? In what ways were you trying to fix other people’s problems? Which…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:36:30 — 44.3MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
Recovery takes time. That’s a good thing. Why? Ester leads us through a conversation about slow recovery, guided by these notes. Recovery, like everything in life, has its ebbs and flows. An “ebb” in its noun form is defined in the Meriam Webster dictionary as “the reflux of the tide toward the sea” and as…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:27:55 — 40.3MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options