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Robert shares varied concepts and approaches to understanding behavior that diverts us from our healthy desire to become well. We delve into social and medical aspects.
Thanksgiving
Coming from where we come from, many of us are fortunate to be alive, let alone free and most of us in our right mind. So many of us have had new things added to our life and many have had things restored to our life. Both the new things and the old things restored are beyond our comprehension.
Step 7 “Humbly Asked God To Remove Our Shortcomings”
If the word “humbly” makes you feel uncomfortable, like me, you were messaged to confuse humility with humiliation. If the word “asked” makes you feel uncomfortable, you were likely taught to do everything yourself, to depend on no one
Episode #210 Tuesday- The Fix: South Davis Recovery Club Nov 13, 2021
In this episode, Robert shares his experience, strength, and hope in an AA Speaker Meeting. Robert talks about his 35 years of personal recovery and what he believes others need to follow to attain live long sobriety.
How I See Myself
I need to surround myself with people who are going in the same direction that I have decided to go into. As stated, “water seeks its own level.” Maybe you have heard something to the effect of “a rising tide lifts all boats.” Both are true. If I am a person of action who decides to see myself in a positive light, I am more likely to be attracted to others who strive for the same thing.
Let Go and Let God
Have you ever caught yourself aggressively replaying some conversation or interaction from the past? Or have you caught yourself rehearsing some future conversation or scenario in your head? Both of those things bring me to an awareness that I am not present. In Al-Anon, we call that obsessive thinking. Either ruminating about some previous event that I cannot change or obsessing about some future event that hasn’t even come to pass—neither of these is beneficial to me nor the relationships in my life.
Keep Coming Back
If there was anything more valuable than this three-word phase I don’t know what it would be. So many of us come from a place where we have worn out our welcome long before they finally asked us to leave. The last thing anyone would consider to be a logical request would be to ask me to come back.
I Want You to Win
There was no way to get to the goal of sobriety and lifelong recovery without accessing that through others who came in before me and those who would come after me. It became a paradigm shift for me and my recovery. The more I have become well, the more I examine this notion in every conceivable area of life. When I find myself not rooting for a person’s success the first thing I check is my ego. I ask myself, what is it about their success that threatens you and the success you hope for?
Hide and Seek
Do you remember as a child all the games that you would play with friends, brothers, and sisters if you had him? We would play games like Ring Around the Rosie, Duck-Duck-Goose, Tag, and Dodgeball. Most of these games could be played with a varying amount of people. For some of the games, too many kids would pose a problem in other games, not enough kids would pose an equal problem. One of the games that were most popular was Hide and Seek.
Minding Your Business
I think this is at the heart and soul of what mindset recovery is all about. We need, to the best of our ability, to remove and separate the emotion so we can make the best objective decisions in the forward movement of our lives. Because we are human beings that live, breathe and move in an emotional and spiritual space we cannot negate the emotion and how we conduct our personal life. That is not recommended nor desired, but it should not preclude us from having a rational response to that.