Are these extravagant promises? We think not. A podcast about reckoning. recovery and redemption. We share experience, strength, and hope.
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What if I told you ... would you believe it? How could you? How many times do we hear in the Rooms about lives that are second to none, lives worth celebrating, when, at one time, all was lost? Do we believe them? Have we ever heard the converse? Of course not. Rarely have we seen a person fail ... So why are we so stubborn, why don't we believe? W…
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EPISODE #56: LUCKY SEVEN
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LUCKY SEVEN. Today marks seven years of continuous, uninterrupted sobriety. On Father’s Day 2015, I wrote a letter to God petitioning Him, begging Him to save me. I needed an angel, in a bad way. My Higher Power didn’t send me one angel, He sent me a program of angels in the earthly form of a group of drunks just trying to stay sober and stay alive…
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EPISODE #55: ONE BAD APPLE
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The Judgment of Paris: Discordia throws the golden apple into the banquet (to which she was not invited), and the rest, as they say is history. Unprecedented carnage, an Odyssey, the fall of Troy, death of Gods and Mortals alike, a stolen bride, and of course, the death of Paris himself. All because of one bad apple. Like the Waylon Jennings song g…
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EPISODE #54: SAME AS IT EVER WAS.
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Recovery and the Twelve Steps are both living breathing organisms, institutions, theories, and principles, but they are solid and fundamental at the same time. That is the beauty and the mystery of our Program.
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We get the conduct we tolerate. This is nowhere more important than the conduct we tolerate in ourselves.
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In this episode, we continue the discussion and theme from our last episode regarding Outside Issues, and how they lead to emotional dysregulation and instability, which is the precursor to a relapse for sure.
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EPISODE #51: OUTSIDE ISSUES
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Due to the chaos in our country and the impact it has on a lot of us staying sober, this episode leaves our current topic and addresses the important concept of “outside issues” and keeping our focus and equipoise when all around us are losing their minds. This is apolitical and ideologically neutral.…
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EPISODE #50: STRAIGHT UP RIGHTEOUS
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Today we continue our exploration of the 1903 treatise the “Homely Virtues,”particularly Chapter I entitled, “Straightness.” While this term may connote many things to many people in today’s parlance, in 1903 the term was used to mean “honest,” “earnest,” and “genuine.” Aren’t these the bedrocks of our recovery?…
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EPISODE #49: ORDINARY PEOPLE
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This episode begins our study of the work The Homely Virtues, focusing on the Prelude or "Introductory," called "Ordinary People," and the intersection with programs of recovery. I find it fascinating that a book that predates the 12 & 12 by almost fifty years or more could so eloquently and exactly mirror the last paragraphs in Step 12 of that sem…
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EPISODE #48: BURNING MY SHIPS
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This episode focuses on my journey over the past twelve months, why I stopped podcasting for a bit, and how I stayed sober and strengthened my program of recovery and serenity through the global pandemic.
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EPISODE #47: LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYIN'
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This is the beginning of Season 3 of the EPP. Show notes: -- December 9 is an important day for me, for my life, for my Program. Why? -- While it is true that you may be able to get sober alone, it is a lot harder, and I do not know anyone who has succeeded. I am not saying it isn't possible, or that there aren't viable programs of recovery other t…
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God’s power to forgive is greater than our power to sin.
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“On with the show ...” Motley Crue. This is the first episode of Season 2, and the first of the Solo Meetings, in which I am offering as a form of service a meeting-like format so that those who are unable to attend a meeting in person or through another format or platform can get relief and recovery as if they were in a meeting and listening.…
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Control-freaks, please apply.
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EPISODE #43: THE TEN MOST DANGEROUS WORDS
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What will other people say? What will other people think?
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EPISODE #42: THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
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The Divine Spark is inside us all ...
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EPISODE #41: AMAZING GRACE
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I once was blind, and now I see ...
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“The fundamental tenet of Buddhism is not, ‘Every man for himself.’ I know. I looked it up.” Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda)
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EPISODE #39: FUNERAL PYRE
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Burn, baby burn ...
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Continuing to “adult” the shit out of life ...
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It is, after all, a spiritual axiom.
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EPISODE #36: UVA UVAM VIVENDO VARIA FIT
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Look it up ... Here’s to the sunny slopes ...
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Choose your words wisely.
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“I wish her a lucky passage ...” Richard Wilbur.
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Who, Me?
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“Ay, ay, a scratch; marry, ‘tis enough ...” Romeo and Juliet, ACT III. Scene I.
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EPISODE #31: WE THINK NOT!
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1461 Twenty-four hours. How did I do it? I didn’t drink, and I didn’t die. Here’s how ...
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EPISODE #30: BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD
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The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz. The First Agreement. Tonight.
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EPISODE #29: THE GHOST IN YOU.
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“Physician, heal thyself ...”
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EPISODE #28: NO MAN IS AN ISLAND.
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Send not to know, For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee ...
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EPISODE #27 - CASANOVA WAS VENETIAN ...
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We are only as sick as our secrets. The Big Lie was known to me, before I told it.
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EPISODE #26: ACROSS THE RIVER
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“When people talk, listen completely ...” Hemingway
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EPISOD #25: THE HAPPY WARRIOR
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Who draws His breath in confidence of Heaven’s applause? You know.
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EPISODE #24: BALL DON’T LIE
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Ahhh, Rasheed. You may have been a ‘heel, but you are a damned genius.
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EPISODE #23: FREE. FALLING.
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Loss becomes a ticket to a journey to a destination you could never have reached before.
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“I’m gonna be like you, Dad, you know I’m gonna be like you.” “Cat’s in the Cradle,” by Harry Chapin.
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EPISODE #21: REDEMPTION SONG
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But my hand was made strong, by the hand of the Almighty ...
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EPISODE #20: SACRED, PART 2
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As Jack London said, there are meetings under circumstances which make men remember ...
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The type of love that everyone could have, that many do, and sad few do not.
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EPISODE #18 - TELL ME A STORY
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The name of the story will be Time. Find that gentle, sweet child within you.
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EPISODE #17: A MAN’S PRICE
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“A man’s game charges a man’s price.”
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EPISODE #16: BLACK CARE
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Can we outrun the darkness? Maybe, maybe not.
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EPISODE #15: THE BEST WAY OUT
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Churchill, Frost ... your pick.
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EPISODE #14: THE ROUND HILL CHRONICLES
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Sometimes you eat crow, eat the turkey, and sometimes you just leave the damned country.
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Because luck’s got nothing to do with it.
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Be kind, be pitiful; Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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EPISODE #11: DESERVE’S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
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Because in this Universe, it’s pay me now AND pay me later.
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EPISODE #10: WHY ME? WHY NOT ME?
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Because there are no bad students, only bad teachers. At least that is what Mr. Miyagi taught me.
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EPISODE # 9: WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER
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Eamonn M., A Man, AMEN.
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Sometimes, well, sometimes the bear eats you.
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