Month: February 2013

Enabling – Episode 11

Swetha, Spencer, and Kelli talk about enabling. We start by defining our understanding of the term, enabling. Early on, Swetha wondered whether anything nice she did for someone was enabling. Her sponsor helped her by giving her this definition: “getting between someone and the consequences of their choices or actions.” Kelli also had this confusion….

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hope through adversity – a meditation

hope is a function of struggle. … hope is not an emotion, but hope is a cognitive, behavioral process that we learn when we experience adversity, when we have relationships that are trustworthy, when people have faith in our ability to get out of a jam.

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Compassion for Self – a meditation

  If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone. -Maxwell Maltz Sometimes, when I am struggling with uncomfortable feelings, I am apt to turn my focus outward and fixate on others rather than accepting my own reality. At times like this, I often find myself afraid to be without others there to…

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Podcast news and a new topic

Dear listeners: We plan to record two episodes this Sunday (February 17), because a couple of us are traveling next weekend so we won’t be able record the show then. We want to give y’all a chance to send us your thoughts on the topic of the second show, which will be Detachment. If you have…

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unto the least – a meditation

  For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me. … Truly, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and…

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