Spirit of Recovery
Tuesdays, 4 PM CT
This is where spirituality and recovery meet. Your hosts Revs. Lonnie Vanderslice and Dan Beckett 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, August 29, 2017
Relax on Impact—Empowering Lasting Change
We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Trying to navigate that paradox can sometimes feel like we are heading for a big crash! Therapist and author…
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Two Way Prayer—An 11-Step Tool Rediscovered
A.A. pioneers used Two Way Prayer as a daily practice—in fact, they considered it more essential for recovery than attendance at meetings. By listening each morning and following their guidance,…
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Recovery High Schools—What Every Recovering Teen Deserves
Recovery from a substance use disorder is challenging for anyone—but even more so for teens. They face the regular pressures of moving from childhood into adulthood, while also learning how to stay…
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Forgiveness—Is It Worth It? Yes!
Recovery happens as we know that although we may have the disease of addiction or the family disease of enabling, the disease does not have us. This is what special guest…
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Singing the Song of Your Heart
Recovery invites us to discover and sing the song of our heart. Since it has the power to uncover truths that lay deep within our heart, music is an essential part of our recovery tool kit. Special…
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Spirit-Mind-Body—The Unity Focus on Healing
Making conscious connections with wholeness and well-being is the key to healing and recovery. Self-awareness, self-responsibility, prayer, and meditation are the building blocks of those connections…
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Loving Yourself Is a Spiritual Action
Recovery means a whole new way of learning to love yourself. Addiction or enabling someone’s addiction makes us fearful and selfish. And that’s very different from being self-loving! Special guest…
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Free From Hate, Free to Live, Free to Help
Entering recovery from alcoholism started a powerful transformation for special guest Scott Shepherd. By taking a long, honest look at himself ,he…
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Surrender and Service—Practices for Recovery
Practice doesn’t necessarily make perfect—but spiritual practices make whole! Loosening our grip on how we think things “ought” to be frees us to surrender into love and wisdom. Taking…
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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Let It Shine!
Every person is God’s light in human form. Recovery is about discovering it, uncovering it, and letting it shine! Special guest Joanna Gabriel is a survivor of classism, sexism, and racism. She has…
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