Step 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives were unmanageable.

What does this mean to you? How have you experienced this in your life?

Welcome to episode 413 of the recovery show.

This episode is brought to by Janice, Tammy, Shauna, Renee, May, Deanna, and Andrea.

They use the donation button on our website. Thank you, Janice, Tammy,

Shauna, Renee, May, Deanna, and Andrea for your generous contributions. This episode is for you.

We are friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts who have found a path to serenity

and happiness.

We who live or have lived with the seemingly hopeless problem of addiction understand as perhaps a few others can.

So much depends on our own attitudes and we believe that changed attitudes can aid recovery.

Before we begin, we would attitudes can aid recovery.

Before we begin, we would like to state that in this show we represent ourselves rather than any 12-step program.

During this show, we will share our own experiences. The opinions

expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. Take what you like and leave the rest. We hope that you will find something in our

sharing that speaks to your life. My name is Spencer. I am your host today and

joining me today is Nora welcome to the recovery show Nora

Thank you Spencer I'm very honored to be here very happy to be here

This is our second episode in the Steps series. The first one was

number four eleven when we talked about the steps in general, an introduction to the steps.

Today we're going to be talking about step one and the structure that I'm using here is to read

from our literature from the book how Al-Anon works. We're going to be

reading from chapter 8 which is titled 12 Steps and we're reading Step 1 which in the

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