Summary: <a href="http://therecoveryshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/8584936014_f209919c4d_b.jpg"></a>How have you experienced courage in your recovery? Which steps required courage of you? How has recovery given you courage to change the things you can?<br> <br> * We use the word “courage” a lot in this program. Most of our meetings start with the serenity prayer:<br> God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,<br> The courage to change the things I can,<br> And the wisdom to know the difference<br> * What does the word “courage” mean to you?<br> <br> * In the past?<br> * Now?<br> <br> <br> * When were some moments in which you found “the courage to change the things you can”?<br> <br> * Coming into your first Al-Anon meeting?<br> * Sharing in a meeting?<br> * Calling another Al-Anon member?<br> * Asking someone to be your sponsor?<br> * Setting (and holding to) a boundary?<br> * Not enabling your loved one.<br> * Taking your 4th step inventory?<br> * Sharing your “wrongs” with someone in the 5th step?<br> * Making amends?<br> <br> <br> * How have you found courage in recovery?<br> <br> * Faith and trust in the program, sponsor, higher power.<br> * Little steps lead to confidence in bigger steps.<br> <br> <br> * Finding the courage live your own life with your authentic truth. (24 hours at a time.)<br> * Step 11 “power to carry that out” == courage<br> <br> Upcoming topics include parenting. As an adult child of an alcoholic, how can you not pass that on to your own children? What have you learned in recovery about being a better parent? Or, alternatively, what is your experience as the parent of an alcoholic or addict? Please call us at 734-707-8795 or email <a title="Send us mail" href="mailto:feedback@therecoveryshow.com">feedback@therecoveryshow.com</a> with your questions or experience, strength and hope. Or just leave a comment right here.<br> A listener called, looking for an e-book version of the Blueprint for Recovery 4th step workbook. To my knowledge, this is not (yet) available in electronic format. <a href="/alanon-ebooks">Some Al-Anon literature is available as E-Books</a>. A variety of small publications are also available for <a href="https://al-anon.org/store/downloadable-items/">free download</a> from the Al-Anon website.<br> <br> Music from the show<br> The Killers: Rut<br> <br> Fleetwood Mac: Landslide<br> <br> The Wizard of Oz: If I only had the Nerve<br> <br> <br>
