Spirit of Recovery
This is where spirituality and recovery meet. Your hosts Rev. Dan Beckett and Rev. Michelle Vargas explore practical ways to apply spiritual principles on the 12-step recovery journey. Emphasis is on understanding the unique challenges to those affected by addiction as well as simple techniques to support attaining new levels of happiness, joy, and freedom. Listen each week for practical information for those in recovery, their families, or anyone who wants to learn more.
Episodes
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 4:00 pm (CST)
How Recovery Works
“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.” Thus opens the chapter in the Big Book titled “How It Works.” Although the book goes on to describe the 12 steps… |
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00 pm (CST)
God as We Understand God
For some of us new to recovery, the whole “God thing” can be a real barrier. We may be carrying old ideas of God that don’t make sense to us. We may not realize that we don’t need to accept… |
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:00 pm (CST)
A Life Worth Living
In addiction, many of us became down, even perhaps deeply depressed. Now that we’re in recovery, how can we create a new life of vitality and purpose? A life that repairs body and soul and becomes… |
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020 4:00 pm (CDT)
Confident Living!
Many of us in addiction recovery are all too familiar with the feeling of fear. Fear of the future, fear of change, fear of pain—you can probably add to the list. The good news is that in recovery… |
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 4:00 pm (CDT)
A Life of Purpose
Many of us enter addiction recovery with an excess of energy, not always knowing what to do with it. We can exhaust ourselves overcommitting, trying to make up for lost time, or just generally… |
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 4:00 pm (CDT)
From Chaos to Peace
When we first get clean and sober, it is not unusual to feel like the whole world has been turned upside down. It can feel like chaos has taken over our lives! Fortunately, if we are willing to do… |
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00 pm (CDT)
The Will to Heal
When we were in active addiction, sometimes we made bad decisions. Our minds were fogged, but we didn't know it. Our thinking was warped, but it made perfect sense to us! Once we had been on a… |
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:00 pm (CDT)
School of Hard Knocks
Murphy’s Law seems operable in the life of many addicts—whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Beaten into submission by the school of hard knocks, we wonder, Do we have to learn everything the… |
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 4:00 pm (CDT)
Imagine That!
When we first get into addiction recovery, it can be hard to imagine a life without a drink or a drug. It may seem like our life is over and we'll never have fun again. But nothing could be… |