Category: The Recovered Word

Pornography Isn’t Your Problem Video by Jason Mahr Health relationships begin with letting go of what is unhealthy. Jason Mahr describes how you can let go of what is damaging and promote healthy relationships in your life. that exists to help coach people to overcome personal constraints while focusing on renewing the mind. With over 20 years of experience in working in churches and counseling others, Jason’s desire to lead others comes from the struggle of overcoming a 23 year battle in his life. The struggle that gripped him for…

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We Don’t Have To Live… An UnHappy Life by Bob K for AA Beyond Belief Click Here for Part I Click Here for Part II Click Here for Part III Click Here for Part IV Ebby’s father and his brothers were heavy drinkers. Eventually, he gleaned an explanation of why his family members’ drinking contrasted with his own from Richard Peabody’s book, The Common Sense of Drinking. One particular section really stuck with me. It was an explanation of the difference between a “hard drinker” and an “alcoholic.” Even though both people might…

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Strip Clubs, Sex for Money, My encounter with Jesus – MY TESTIMONY Video by Montana Buck This is probably the hardest video I’ll ever upload to my channel. But when the Holy Spirit tells you how and when to do something, you obey. My speech was slow and calculated in the beginning, just a little nervous y’all. I pray this finds your heart on fertile soil. God bless you all! “And they overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and they did not…

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Coming To…An UnHappy Life by Bob K for AA Beyond Belief Click Here for Part I Click Here for Part II Click Here for Part III Ebby talks of being arrested, and twenty years after the fact, there remains the desire to air a couple of resentments. Ebby was in serious trouble in the late summer of 1934. His most recent episode—shooting at pigeons perched on the newly painted roof of the family’s Manchester home—had put him in violation of a “three strike” law. Convicted of public drunkenness for the…

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The Central Lie of Porn? Video | Doug Wilson

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  Ebby – More About The Unhappy Life Click Here for Part I Click Here for Part II Ebby’s own account of the relapse, as he described it in an AA talk in 1954, is relayed to us by Mel B.: “I returned to Albany in the summer of 1936. After casting about for a time, I secured a job with the Ford Motor Company . . . This was the fall of 1936, November. I stayed with this Ford Company until the last part of April 1937, went on…

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What should I expect from therapy? Video by Recovery Daily Dose In a typical doctor/patient relationship, the patient expects to enter an office with a problem and leave with a solution. In today’s video, I talk about why that isn’t a realistic expectation when working with a therapist, and discuss what expectations make more sense instead.

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  AN UNHAPPY LIFE – Continued by Bob K for AA Beyond Belief Click Here for Part I Ebby, an archetypal black sheep, was a slacker, a floater who never quite embraced adulthood. Ebby’s older brother “John Boyd Thacher II, was named for his illustrious uncle. He would prove to be a political and business superstar in the same mold . . . Not surprisingly, Jack Thacher was the family’s outstanding student at Albany Academy, a private school (which is locally referred to as AA!) Though (brothers) George and Thomas also…

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The Connection the Addict Craves Video by Jason Hyland | TEDxBostonCollege Jason Hyland speaks about being a voice for the drug epidemic, showing what is possible even for people struggling currently or in early recovery. Being a former addict himself, Jason uses his personal experience to give a unique perspective of grit and self-empowerment. Jason Hyland is a grateful recovering alcoholic and addict, who wrote his national bestselling book “Stop Thinking Like That: No Matter What” while in rehab winter of 2017-2018. In his 20+ months of sobriety, he has…

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EBBY THACHER – AN UNHAPPY LIFE by Bob K for AA Beyond Belief Late November 1934 seemed to be the worst of times for Bill Wilson, an unemployed and completely discredited stockbroker living in Brooklyn, New York. He had fallen from a lofty place in life. Less than six years earlier, everything had been going his way: a luxury apartment, fat profits in a booming stock market, expensive vacations in resorts areas, and a host of superficial Wall Street friends who, as he later recalled, “spent in thousands and chattered in…

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