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The Big Book

The 12 and 12

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Call In and Get Coffee

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Call in and get your free Recovered Podcast Coffee

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and tell us:
1.  Your name and city
2.  Your sobriety date
3.  Your Home Group
4.  Your Sponsor
Also, tell us how about your very first meeting.  What do you remember from your first ever meeting?
Make sure you email me with your snail mail address so I can send you your coffee.

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What is ambition?

Is ambition good or bad?

How can you tell/judge?

What is the opposite of ambition?

Is ambition a form of greed?

Before program, did you have ambitions?

What were they?

Did your disease affect what you were ambitious for?

How did your addiction affect your ambitions?

In early recovery, what were you ambitious for?

How did the program help or hinder?

Did your ambitions change with experience in recovery?

What are your ambitions with sponsees?

What are your ambitions with your higher power?

What are your ambitions with the fellowship?

What are your ambitions in life?

What are your ambitions at work?

How does the program affect your ambitions?

How does prayer form your ambitions?

How does a sponsor affect your ambitions?

What would you say to the new person about ambitions?

Calls

Jesse from Massachusetts

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Tom from Michigan

 

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Call In And Get Free Coffee

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Call in and get your free Recovered Coffee.

 
Just call
 
and tell us:
1.  Your name and city
2.  Your sobriety date
3.  Your Home Group
4.  Your Sponsor
 
Also, tell us how recovery has changed your ambitions.  Has recovery changed your priorities.
 
Make sure you email me with your snail mail address so I can send you your coffee.

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Call In And Get Free Coffee

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Call in and get your free Recovered Coffee.

 
Just call
 
and tell us:
1.  Your name and city
2.  Your sobriety date
3.  Your Home Group
4.  Your Sponsor
 
Also, tell us how recovery has changed your ambitions.  Has recovery changed your priorities.
 
Make sure you email me with your snail mail address so I can send you your coffee.

Check out this episode!

Call In And Get Coffee

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Call in and get your free Recovered Coffee.


Just call

and tell us:
1.  Your name and city
2.  Your sobriety date
3.  Your Home Group
4.  Your Sponsor

Also, tell us how recovery has changed your ambitions.  Has recovery changed your priorities.

Make sure you email me with your snail mail address so I can send you your coffee.

Special App Owner Open Talk Kelly S. – Recovered 605

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The Big Book

The 12 and 12

24 Hours a Day

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Check out this episode!

Feeling Sad in Recovery – Recovered 604

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The 12 and 12

24 Hours a Day

This episode is more about feeling sad rather than something more serious like clinical bi-polar depression.  For someone suffering from mental illness such as a manic state of bipolar, simply going to a meeting is not enough.  

We are not therapists and we have no expertise in this area.  If you are in therapy, and you hear us crossing that line, please accept our apology, that is not our intent.  If you think you are clinically depressed, see a professional and follow their direction.  Take what you like and leave the rest.

But let’s turn to you first,

Before you came into program, before addiction, as a child, would you consider yourself as a generally happy kid?

How about during middle school?

How about during high school?

How about after your tried drugs and alcohol?

Was there any trauma in your life that changed your general disposition of happiness?

As your drinking career developed, did you suffer from periods of depression?

Have you ever had therapy?

Have you been diagnosed with depression?

In your understanding in therapy, How are depression and sadness different?

Again this program is about sadness, clinical depression can be dangerous and we urge you to get professional help along with your participation in a recovery support group.

Near the end, was there any joy left?

Tells us about sadness in early recovery.

How did you cope?

How do the:

  • steps,

  • slogans,

  • prayers

  • meetings

Help?

How does your:

  • sponsor

  • higher power

  • big book and 12 and 12

  • other literature

Help?

What is it like today?

What is emotional sobriety?

we have an email

email – Ruth T

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/14d7ce4e122eac36

Call from Chris from Vancouver

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email – Mary F

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=b1511a8242&view=pt&search=inbox&type=14d7ce4e122eac36&th=14d85f44f832cd58&siml=14d85f44f832cd58&siml=14d8689b873818ef&siml=14d869ef3860902b

We have Calls

Call – Matt from Connecticut

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Call – Alex from Austin

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Call – Amy

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What would you say to the new person who is sad all the time?  What would you say to the person who is grieving, but probably doesn’t even know it?

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Dear Friends:


Our next Recovery Topic is :  
Feeling Sad in Recovery

Call in and be part of the show.  Call:

Call in and answer the following question:
What recovery tool do you use when you are feeling sad?

Feeling the feelings is part of being sober.  Now that we are clean, we can no longer use drugs and alcohol to medicate these negative feelings like we used to.  But now, we have tools to help us cope and lean about ourselves in a healthy way.  How do you do this?

We have a chat room available to you to listen to the show live and interact with us and other listeners as we record the show.  You will also hear bloopers and other conversations that don’t make it to the edited episode that is posted later that night.

Our next show is:
Tuesday, May 26 at 6:30 pm EDT (-4 GMT)

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God bless and see you next time.