This week, Karen B tells her story and shares her experience, strength, and hope. Karen grew up in a loving family that nonetheless carried the family disease — in adult children of alcoholics. Her aunt took her to Alateen. She says she loved the slogans, but she didn’t stick with it. In her early twenties,…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:15:28 — 34.6MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
How have you enabled your loved ones’ alcoholism? What is enabling, anyway? How do you know when you’re doing it and when you are empowering them, instead? What does the dictionary say? Merriam-Webster 1 a : to provide with the means or opportunity: training that enables people to earn a living b : to make…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:14:38 — 34.3MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
Read a transcript of this episode.What does September mean to you? How do you handle times of transition? I’ve been thinking about September. I guess it started with my wife commenting, as we walked to the car, “This is the first sweater day.” She had that tone of voice, like it was the worst thing….
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:55 — 19.3MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
Mary Pearl T shares on Step 1, “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.” Please call us at 734-707-8795 or email feedback@therecoveryshow.com with your questions or experience, strength and hope. Or just leave a comment right here.
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:13 — 22.5MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options
What does it mean to “place our problem in its true perspective”? Can a change in perspective change everything? Our suggested opening says “as we learn to place our problem in its true perspective, we find it loses its power to dominate our thoughts and our lives”. What is perspective? From dictionary.com: the state of…
Read MorePodcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:26:05 — 39.5MB)
Subscribe for free: More Options