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Are you ready for 2018?  In this episode Amy shares how her current depression has gotten the better of her for planning this next year and how she is finding the courage to start again.  Join her in the Year of Courage!  Thanks for Sharing Podcast:  https://healingpathsrecovery.com/podcast/

In this episode Amy celebrates her sobriety anniversary of 5 YEARS SOBER! She sha res the three big principles that helped her get this far and why milestones are important to recognize.

Joyce was in sex addiction recovery for years before she ever saw another woman. After a few years, she left recovery and thought she had it all together. When tragedy struck, she came back and was surprised to find and see other women. Listen to part 2 of Amy’s great interview with Joyce.

Joyce was in sex addiction recovery for years before she ever saw another woman. After a few years, she left recovery and thought she had it all together. When tragedy struck, she came back and was surprised to find and see other women. Listen to part 1 of Amy’s great interview with Joyce.

After listening to a song from her nieces and nephews, Amy reflects and expresses her gratitude to the women who came before her.  Finding gratitude in Recovery is not always an easy feat.  Sometimes we use it as a way to bypass our emotions or it is used as a weapon against us.  Reclaiming gratitue in a way that works for you is essential to recovery.  Listen to how Amy did that for herself.

Expectations control our entire life. The way we behave and feel about ourselves is mostly driven by the hidden expectations that run our lives.  In the continuation of the Letting Go series, Amy tells about her experiences with understanding expectations and shares three important principles she has learned about letting go of the expectations that were running her life before recovery.

In this episode, Amy shares some personal news and discusses how our experiences can help to broaden our view and drive us to connect with others.  Sometimes, we instead, choose to pull away and isolate from others when things happen.  However, allowing our experiences to broaden our view instead of narrow it, is part of living a full life in recovery.  

Continuing their interview, Sally shares with Amy what it was like to write and share her 1st step with her support circle.  She shares some of her experiences in recovery and her life.  We, at Worth Recovery, feel honored to Sally would share with us and through us, all of you.  

Continuing our Women's Stories series, Sally shares her first written 1st step with us here at Worth Recovery.  Her story is one of faith, hope, perseverence, and love. 

Fall brings changing leaves, cooler temperatures, and everything pumpkin spice. And fall brings many lessons for us to learn.  To everything there is a season, and every season brings lessons from nature for all of us to learn.  Fall brings the lesson of letting go.  Listen as Amy explores the ideas of letting go in recovery.   

I never thought as a child that I wanted to grow up to be a sex addict.  That wasn't the course I was on.  Life knocked me a few degrees here and there along my journey.  Without course corrections, we end up a long way from our original destination.  A few degrees can make all the difference on where we end up and the course of our recovery.  

During the month of July we celebrate Independence Day in the United States.  Amy shares her feelings on declaring her independence from addiction and how that has impacted her life.  Celebrating the day you declare independence is just as important as celebrating the day you won your independence, your sobriety date.  What victories can you celebrate today?

We just finished our event in Seattle Washington and I wanted to share with you the three impact moments for me.

Continuing from Episode 95, Amy shares more about her spiritual healing process.  Recovery is a healing process that requires dedicated effort and time.  That healing has to happen physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  The second principle of spiritual healing that Amy shares in this episode is prioritization of our spiritual life.  If we really are suffering from "an illness only a spiritual...

When my nephew told me, "Adults are not to be trusted", it broke my heart.  I hurt for him and his current reality AND I hurt for the feeling of familiarity I felt when he said that.  Trust is a difficult thing.  Learning to trust ourselves and to keep our word is an essential step in recovery.  In this episode, I share some of the ways I've learned to be better at this thing we call honesty.  

Healing happens on purpose.  In this episode, Amy shares the year she became intentional about her recovery.  It is easy to float along in recovery, trying different things, dipping our toes into many options and moving on before we see results.  It is also easy to keep doing things out of habit but not really evalutating to see if the action is having the intented impact.  Learn how to be more in...

So much of living in recovery is living in the in-between times: the time from where we were to where we want to be.  Whether it's the space between denial and awareness, the space between addiction and sobriety, the space between feeling lost and feeling direction, these in-between times make up so much of our lives.  These spaces are places of extreme, hope and despair, love and loss, forward an...

Continuing the journey through the 12 steps, Amy concludes the discussion of Step 9 with this episode:  It Works When I Work It.  The SAA Green Book guides us through a 5 step process in how we actually go about making amends for the wrongs we have done.  In this episode, Amy discusses this process and gives examples from her own experiences.  Cleaning up the wreckage of our past is essential in o...

So much of recovery is a healing process.  Healing of mind, body, and spirit.  The SA White Book tells us that healing has to come about in three areas of our lives - emotional healing, physical healing, and spiritual healing.  I recently was able to prepare some thoughts for a women's retreat about spiritual healing.  As I studied and prepared, so many things went through my head.  In the next fe...

Are you tired of saying you're sorry?  Picking back up the series on the 12 steps of Recovery, Amy continues the discussion on Step 9:  Made direct amends whenever possible, expect when to do so would injure them or others.  Making amends is more than just apologies or saying we are sorry.  It takes a complete attitude change.  Listen to Amy share a portion of that changed attitude and how to appr...

Everything in our physical world around us cycles. Weather, plants, and animals are just a few of the things that cycle. It makes sense then, that our own physical bodies would cycle as well. I'm not just talking about that time of the month, though I am including that. In this episode I share a bit about my own physical cycles and learning the importance of listening to our bodies. Action Items:...

Music has been such a big part of my life. In our world we are surrounded by music. Are you using music intentionally in your recovery? In this episode I share the power music has had in my recovery and share several of the songs that have helped me stay sober. I'm excited to hear from you about how music has helped you and how you connect music to emotion. Action Items: Eliminate some music from...

In Part 2 with Shannon we discuss children, recovery journeys, daily routines and blogging.  A few months ago, Shannon started blogging for Worth Recovery.  Her words are real, authentic, relatable, inspiring and uplifting.  Her story is the same.  I'm excited to share with you a little bit of Shannon's experiences in recovery.  You can read more about Shannon and her recovery journey at the blog:...

A few months ago, Shannon started blogging for Worth Recovery.  Her words are real, authentic, relatable, inspiring and uplifting.  Her story is the same.  I'm excited to share with you a little bit of Shannon's experiences in recovery.  You can read more about Shannon and her recovery journey at the blog:  Worth Recovery Blog

After listening (really watching) two friends have a heated argument on Facebook, I started to really pay attention to my usage of the word "but".  I soon became aware of the problems this word was causing in my life.  As I've worked to elliminate the word "but" from my vocabulary I've learned the power of a new word.  The power of the word AND.  I'm excited to share that power with you!!