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, 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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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The 12-Step Path of Wisdom
There’s more to recovery than staying sober and clean or free of obsession with another person. The 12 steps of recovery are a wisdom path to spiritual living. Special guest…
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Choosing to Live a Life of Joy
Even in long-term recovery, life can throw us curveballs. How can we use our spiritual recovery tools to face life with faith in joy? Special guest Ray Nelson, Unity minister and person in long-term…
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
No One Is Alone
One out of every five people struggles with mental illness. Too often, it can feel like a dark secret that isolates those suffering from it. Ignoring it is not an option. As friends and family…
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Recovery—Active and Engaged!
Recovery gets us out of self-centeredness and into living. We are freed and strengthened to participate fully in our communities. Special guest …
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Free to Love—Resetting the Patterns That Keep Us Lonely
A lot of what we learned about love relationships we learned in our family or circumstances of origin. Recovery makes it possible to learn new ways of relating. With awareness and commitment, we can…
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
We Are Willing to Grow Along Spiritual Lines
What does it mean to grow spiritually—and by the way, how do you do it? Recovery pioneers, the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous, wondered the same thing. Burned by traditional religion, they…
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Fear of Economic Insecurity Will Leave Us
Recovery makes it possible for us to focus our minds and hearts on constructive living—and that means losing our fear of economic insecurity. There’s no magic formula for “getting rich,” yet there…
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