Do we have choices in our lives? What kinds of choices do we have? How have we found choices in recovery?

Choice Before Recovery

• Did you feel you had choices in your life?
• Did it seem like, when you had a choice, it was either/or, with no 3rd possibility?
• Were you “allowed” to change your mind?
• How did you make decisions?
  • Little ones? (What to have for dinner, what movie to see.)
  • Big ones? (Which job to take, where to live.)

Choice in early recovery

• What messages about choice did you hear when you started attending Al-Anon?
• Was it a surprise to hear that you had choices? That you had more than 2 alternatives?
• What did you hear about making choices to take care of yourself?
• What if you didn’t know which answer was the “right” one?

Choice now

• What tools of the program can you use to help you make a choice?
• Which slogans are helpful?
• How do you use prayer and meditation in making decisions?
• How can taking inventory help?
• Have you found that you can choose your attitude? Acceptance? Gratitude?

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Links

Eric recommended the Insight Timer meditation app.

Music from the show

Gomez: Options

Natasha Bedingfield: Unwritten

George Harrison: Any Road