Creating a Personal Higher Power in Recovery – 417
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
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Summary
Recovery can challenge us to transform our spiritual and religious understandings and underpinnings. For many, especially those emerging from rigid religious backgrounds, rediscovering or reimagining one's higher power becomes a transformative step. In this episode, Sara delves into her personal journey of redefining her higher power, lending an inspiring narrative to those struggling with similar...
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| 0:00.0 | We are told we can create our own God of our understanding. So I decided I was going to do it. I was going to just accept it to blank canvas and there's no rules. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to episode 417 of the recovery show. |
| 0:16.0 | This episode is brought to you by Julie, Rebecca, Amms, Sue, Torrey, and Kimberly. |
| 0:22.0 | They use the donation button on our website. Thank you, Julie, Rebecca, |
| 0:27.0 | Am's Sue, Torrey, and Kimberly for your generous contributions. This episode is for you. |
| 0:34.0 | We are friends and failing members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity and happiness. |
| 0:40.0 | We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction |
| 0:44.0 | understand as perhaps few others can. So much depends on our own attitudes and we |
| 0:49.2 | believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery. |
| 0:53.0 | Before we begin, we would like to state that in this show, |
| 0:56.6 | we represent ourselves rather than any 12-step program. |
| 1:00.6 | During this show, we will share our own experiences. |
| 1:04.0 | The opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. |
| 1:08.0 | Take what you like and leave the rest. |
| 1:10.0 | We hope you'll find something in our sharing that speaks to your life. |
| 1:14.0 | My name is Spencer. I am your host today and joining me today is Sarah. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Show, Sarah. |
| 1:21.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.0 | You wrote to me and said you wanted to talk about, as you put it in your words, overcoming the |
| 1:27.2 | God that was given to you from organized religion and finding the freedom to create a God of your own understanding so that you are able to |
| 1:35.3 | fully turn your will over to a higher power that you love and trust. And this is in relation to |
| 1:41.7 | Alan on step three where we made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him. |
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