Recovery Crone Podcast

Please check out the OA Rise website at  OARise.org  : "OA-RISE (#88993) is an officially recognized meeting of the Overeaters Anonymous 12 step program. Our mission is to provide inspiring speaker meetings of depth and authenticity while supporting World Service through financial contributions. We offer 3-hour OA speaker meetings on the first and third Sundays of each month from 1pm-4pm (Pacific...

Please check out the OA Rise website at  OARise.org  : "OA-RISE (#88993) is an officially recognized meeting of the Overeaters Anonymous 12 step program. Our mission is to provide inspiring speaker meetings of depth and authenticity while supporting World Service through financial contributions. We offer 3-hour OA speaker meetings on the first and third Sundays of each month from 1pm-4pm (Pacific...

Please check out the OA Rise website at OARise.org : "OA-RISE (#88993) is an officially recognized meeting of the Overeaters Anonymous 12 step program. Our mission is to provide inspiring speaker meetings of depth and authenticity while supporting World Service through financial contributions. We offer 3-hour OA speaker meetings on the first and third Sundays of each month from 1pm-4pm (Pacific Ti...

You can find the poem here: https://internetpoem.com/louise-gluck/the-wild-iris-poem/  

The final part of this Step 5 series.  Hopefully, you will hear enough experience, strength and hope to know that (a) it's worth it and (b) you're not doing it "wrong".  

This is part 2 of a 3 part series.  I interview Meagan about the 5th step.  Also, I have a prior podcast from the day she finished her 5th step. Click here to listen .

This is part 1 of 3.  I interview my sponsees on their experience doing Step 5.  

Here is a link to the poem.

19. Read page 72 to Page 75, third paragraph in BB, Step Five in AA 12x12, OA 12x12 and Woman’s Way. Sponsee to make appointment at safe space to share inventory. 20. Review Step Five with sponsee to go over any questions/missing information. 21. Then sponsee to do as instructed in the BB on page 75, last paragraph.

The fourth step, in conclusion.... 17. Read page 83-84 in BB (The Promises). Finish all four columns. Use this document to help you. 18. Do Shame Inventory. I've already recorded a podcast on this, which you can find here .

Here is the 3rd and final session from this awesome retreat. I talk about how I used the tools to get out of relapse and how I continue to use them everyday.

Here is a talk on my major relapse, what I learned from it, and how I was released from it.  

Another shame study! Fortunately, there's variation on each one of these, so it's still worth a listen.   Also, this is not the best recording quality and the beginning didn't get recorded.  Oh, well!   tinyurl.com/NLS12Step

I had a great conversation with Tim and Neil about their experience coming into OA. Our conversation went to many interesting places and I think you'll appreciate our wandering minds! 

I had a wonderful conversation with my friend Tim. We talked about the usual things, including being a man in OA and his evolving relationships with other men. 

I asked Meagan, Tom and Stephanie to describe their process of completing the fourth step. 

I give an introduction and then ask Stacy how she went about completing her fourth step.  15. Make appointment in safe space to listen to anger inventory. 16. Read page 63, last paragraph to page 71 in BB and Step Four in OA 12x12. Finish all four worksheets. Here is a link to the worksheets . And here is a link to the resentment character defects checklist .   

I ask Alan (30 years in OA) and Tom (5 years in OA) about coming into the rooms as the minority male and what that experience was, and still is, like for them. We had a great conversation and they agreed to come back again! 

Stacy, Meagan and I talk about our anxiety/PTSD. We try to focus on what it was like growing up with anxiety; what it was like coming into recovery with anxiety; and the tools we use today to stay grounded and out of an anxious mode.

I was asked by a friend to be the speaker at an Anorexia and Bulimia phone meeting. Here is the meeting info: Meeting #: 55514 Meeting phone #: 515-604-9094 Pin # or instructions: 950897# Special focus: Anorexia/Bulimia Additional notes: *6 to mute and unmute. “Many Symptoms, One Solution” Wk1: Step of the Month (OA 12&12); Wk2: Guest Speaker; Wk3: 2nd or 3rd Edition of OA (OA – AB Stories Only);...

This is a special message of love to my beloved tribe during this intense time of the Covid-19 pandemic.

My opening session at Oregon Intergroup Serenity Retreat at Twin Rocks 2020 where I talk about the need for Two Powers. And, yes, I'm repeating myself. But that's what it's going to be like on this podcast because that's what it's like in recovery: hearing the same things over and over but in slightly different ways until you're beaten into a state of reasonableness. Enjoy!

Stacy, Meagan and I talk about living with depression and share our experience, strength and hope! Good times... Good times... 

Read Step Four in AA 12x12 and Woman’s Way. Write out your anger of everything and everyone. This will become your resentment list. You can use this Resentment Inventory Worksheet, but ONLY fill out the first two columns. You will finish the other columns *after* you've had the chance to tell your anger story.  (Please note that I will not be doing another podcast on this assignment, which I said...

This is the afternoon session of the Seattle Winter Retreat 2020. This is the first time I did a presentation on shame. I'm looking forward to doing it again and getting better at it.  You can find instructions to the Shame Inventory here .