The Recovery Show

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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everyone – a meditation

  Everyone you will ever meet knows something that you don’t. – Bill Nye, the Science Guy I used to think that I had to have the answers for every problem in my life. I used to think that I had to fix everything and everybody around me, by myself. I used to think that…

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sorrow – a meditation

  Once you express your sorrow from the bottom of your heart it will be washed away. Look at a flower it can never hide its scent nor its color. – Rumi Step 9 asks us to make amends to those we have harmed. When we do so, we are cleansed. We don’t do it…

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