Category: The Recovered Word

10 POWERFUL Stories of Addiction (& Recovery) Video

Randolph Jason

10 POWERFUL Stories of Addiction (& Recovery) Video The third in an ongoing series of curated deep dives, today’s show is a masterclass on addiction & recovery, featuring personal stories of sobriety from past guests & wisdom from lauded mental health experts. 00:00:00 – Intro 00:04:12 – Anna Lembke 00:13:44 – Dan Peres 00:23:56 – Jessica Lahey 00:33:24 – David Choe 00:39:55 – Judd Brewer 00:49:30 – Amy Dresner 00:57:50 – Jeff Grant 01:07:31 – Gabor Mate 01:19:05 – Charlie Engle 01:28:29 – Mishka Shubaly

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Newcomers: Watch out for the Time-Bullies!

Randolph Jason

Newcomers: Watch out for the Time-Bullies! From Big Book Sponsorship Don’t let anyone talk you out of your miracle. By the 1980’s, working the 12 Step Program had been replaced by a “Meeting Makers Make It” Program and going to meetings became the program! In the 1940’s and 50’s meetings were a place where recovered alcoholics talked about carrying the message of experience strength and hope to suffering alcoholics and help newcomers work out a solution to their problem (alcoholism/addiction). “Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that…

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Carrying The Message: Dr Bob… Prince of Step 12

Randolph Jason

Carrying The Message: Dr Bob… Prince of Step 12 By Dick B. via Big Book Sponsorship GNN Note – I heard reported that Dr. Bob handed out more then 5,000 copies of Sermon on the Mount by Emmett Fox. If you’ve not read this short, 164 page book, you should. It will change your life, it certainly had a massive impact on mine. This was one of the main books the very early AA meetings used as a guide to help stay sober and bring others to the Light. /…

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Face-To-Face: Making Amends And Changing Lives…Step 9

Randolph Jason

Face-To-Face: Making Amends And Changing Lives…Step 9 We need to have 100% confidence in our Sponsor / accountability partner. We need to know they have traveled this road a great many times and that which we share will go no further – under any circumstance. Peoples lives are at stake. People can be harmed in ways that we never knew existed… and no, I am not being overly dramatic. People die everyday because of their addictive behaviors, we do not need to add to the death toll with our misspoken…

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The Oxford Group Connection and The Mayflower Hotel

Randolph Jason

The Oxford Group Connection and The Mayflower Hotel from Silkworth.net Click here for The Oxford Group Connection Series of articles >>> The first in the series is The Oxford Group Connection published July 26, 2022. Here begins another key circumstance to set the stage in Akron, Ohio. Harvey Firestone, Sr., offered Jim a job as secretary to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1926, and moved him to Akron, Ohio putting him in residence at the Portage Country Club adjacent to the Firestone Estate(7) Jim worked for Firestone eleven years…

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Forging Our Relationship With Our Creator, Our Family and Our Friends…Step 8

Randolph Jason

Forging Our Relationship With Our Creator, Our Family and Our Friends…Step 8 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother. But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And…

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