Do you have joy in your life? Do you feel fulfilled? Are you finding these gifts in recovery? Or are you still waiting for them to come?

In this first episode in a series, we explore a “Gift of Al-Anon“.

We will become mature, responsible individuals with a great capacity for joy, fulfillment, and wonder. Though we may never be perfect, continued spiritual progress will reveal to us our enormous potential.

Spencer and Brooke explore how this gift is appearing in their lives, guided by these questions.

• If you had read or heard this statement when you had just arrived in Al-Anon, what would you have thought of it?
  • would you have made sense of it at all?
  • would you have believed it could be true for you?
  • Did parts of that statement seem true already? Which parts and why?
• As you have traveled your recovery path, how has your understanding of this statement changed?
  • Are there parts you thought were true that you came to see were not true?
  • Did parts of it start to make sense?
  • Did you find a deeper understanding of parts of it?
  • Did you see that this was true of others in the program, and come to want it for yourself?
• How do you see this gift coming true in your life today?
• What progress do you still look forward to?
• What would you say to a newcomer who can’t believe this could ever come true in their own life?

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Music from the show

Joseph suggested “The Weight” by The Band as a song that feels good.

Susan said “it reminds me of my recovered self” when she recommended “Inner Ninja” by Classified.

About “Lost in my Mind” by The Head and the Heart, Kathleen wrote

I love this song for its tone of compassion for overthinking and obsessive thinking. It was a theme song in the movie Silver Lining Playbook and I just heard it performed by staff and some patients at a charity event at the mental health facility, Skyland Trail in Atlanta, GA. Very powerful moment for me as an Alanon and mom of a daughter with bipolar disorder.