The Recovery Show

boundaries – a meditation

  He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I always had trouble with boundaries. I didn’t know how to keep people from encroaching on my stuff. Nor did I know how to keep out of other people’s stuff. On the…

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Gratitude – Episode 19

How do we feel gratitude? Can gratitude help get you through a hard time? Is it something you can choose? Does finding gratitude make your problems go away? What is an “Attitude of Gratitude”? Special guest hosts Kate and Patrick join Swetha and Spencer to talk about these questions, and about their experience finding gratitude,…

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Step 4 – doing the inventory – Episode 18

Step 4 states “[We] took a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” What were our first impressions? What did we fear? What did we find? What was our experience of working Step 4? How has it enhanced our lives? Kelli, Erika, and Spencer talk about our experience, strength, and hope around Step 4.

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fear the fall – a meditation

  nobody fears the height, you all just fear the fall, go to the edge sometimes, and prove your body wrong. Dessa — The Crow   A friend writes: One of the most powerful lines from this, for me, is at the end, where Dessa says “nobody fears the height, you all just fear the fall,…

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Asking for Help – Episode 15

We talk about asking for help. When we came in, we did not have experience asking for help in a healthy way. We didn’t want to impose on people we barely knew, we still thought we could do it ourselves. How did we come to understand that reaching out was not weakness, that others gained…

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