Recovery Crone Podcast

Super excited to post another "Nicole & Stacy Have a Conversation" podcast. Together we nerd out on recovery, depression and self care, beauty as power, beauty and oppression, the price of beauty, being the pretty girl, mean girls, and, as always, aging! Thank you for listening xoxo

This is the morning session of the Seattle Winter Retreat 2020. It was an honor and a privilege to be the guest presenter. All the handouts are available here    

Click here for a copy of the poem!

Appointment at spiritual place of sponsee’s choice. Sponsee to read aloud from BB, changing third person pronouns/proper nouns to first person pronoun starting at page 60 through the end of the Third Step Prayer. Click here for a rewrite of pages 60-63

This is a somewhat popular inspirational story, but the chemical process of emerging butterfly is true! A special shout out to Ellen who loved watching me tell her this story back in the day!

After I recorded myself, I found this quote and turns out it is from one of his plays. Even though the context is wrong, I'm uploading this anyway because how I tell it is how I thought of this quote for over 20 years.  Here's the original:  http://www.elise.com/quotes/arthur_miller_-_take_ones_life_in_ones_arms

And we're back! Stacy and I continue our conversation about getting older. The focus is on me reflecting on my 40s as I am about to turn 50. Topics covered include midlife crisis, sexualizing the body, body image dysmorphia, feeling unsafe in a sexualized body, losing the male gaze, not wanting to be a cougar, badass older women, and more. Enjoy! 

This is my opinion about the kids' books and movies that we should watch to aid our recovery, particularly for ACoA. I want to reiterate that the first two are AUDIOBOOKS (don't watch the movies) and the last three are Pixar animation movies. Click for Hothead Paisan

Read Step Three in OA 12x12, AA 12x12 and Woman’s Way. Write out Third Step prayer and after each line, explain it in a way that resonates for you. Click for 3rd Step Prayer

I'm enjoying including my sponsees on my podcast. Another sponsee, Meagan, finished her 5th step the same day Stacy and I recorded ourselves. I asked Meagan if we could record our conversation for our tribe and she was gracious enough to agree! I do a brief introduction before that recording. Enjoy! Click for 4th Step Worksheets   www.tinyurl.com/NLS12Step OASerenityService@gmail.com

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Stacy, a beloved sponsee, and I get together to talk about body image dysmorphia, anorexia, pregnancies, and growing older. This is part 1 focusing on Stacy's story and her recent 41st birthday.    www.tinyurl.com/NLS12Step OASerenityService@gmail.com

You can find the AA Big Book here:  https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/alcoholics-anonymous

Click for Healing the Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw Click for I Thought It Was Just Me by Brene Brown Click here for my audio files of Brene Brown   www.tinyurl.com/NLS12Step OASerenityService@gmail.com

Click here for Pema Chodron reading You can find the AA 12x12 here:  https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/twelve-steps-and-twelve-traditions

Click here for the poem

First, I recite my morning prayers and then I explain how I got here.   Third Step is on page 63 of BB:  https://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/en_bigbook_chapt5.pdf Charge of the Goddess:  http://www.45worlds.com/i/139f140651e2e167408 Three Little Birds:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBeNx5qiTL8   www.tinyurl.com/NLS12Step OASerenityService@gmail.com 

You can find the AA Big Book here:  https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/alcoholics-anonymous

Once upon a time I asked my fellowship to send me poems that connected to their recovery journey. Here is the first of more to come! Click here for poem

You can find the AA 12x12 here:  https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/twelve-steps-and-twelve-traditions Click here for Women's Way Step Two

This is the first assignment for Step 2. You can find the AA Big Book here:  https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/alcoholics-anonymous

Born and raised on The Fear Team, I now live on and for The Love Team. Very grateful.   My Recovery Tools Folder

Here is a link to my "Life Compass" that includes images of the Queen of Compassion, the Queen of Judgment, and the Shame Hag. Click here for Life Compass   www.tinyurl.com/NLS12Step OASerenityService@gmail.com

My sponsees call me the "Queen of Analogies". I have several and I have told these stories so many times over the last 20+ years. I'm so glad I can now send a link to this podcast! The Highly Sensitive Person book www.tinyurl.com/NLS12Step