Summary: <a href="http://therecoveryshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DSC_5126.jpg"></a>A member asked another member to be their sponsor. The response was, “Are you willing to do what I did for as long as I did it to get what I have?” What would your answer be? Where does that willingness come from?<br> <br> * Definition<br> * What does this word mean to me today?<br> * How is that different from how I understood it in the past?<br> * Where does willingness appear in the Steps?<br> * Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.<br> * Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.<br> * But also: Step 4 — willingness to look deeply at ourselves.<br> * Step 5 and 6 — willingness to change.<br> * Step 11 — willingness to deepen our relationship with a higher power.<br> * In fact, we can find it in all the steps!<br> * Eric noted that you can put the word “willing” in front of each step: Step 1, “Became willing to admit we were powerless…”, etc.<br> * Acronym: HOW — Honest, Open, and Willing. This is HOW the program of recovery works.<br> * How did I become willing?<br> <br> * Examples of others — your stories of using the principles of the program in your own recovery helped me be willing to try them for myself.<br> * Pain — “hitting bottom” over and over in different ways. Eventually willing to try something, anything new.<br> <br> <br> <br> A few tidbits from the episode:<br> Psychology Today article: <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/compassion-matters/201706/5-ways-really-get-closer-each-other">5 Ways to Really Get Closer to Each Other</a><br> <a href="http://phonemeetings.org/">Phone meetings web site</a>.<br> And the quote from Marilyn Monroe that Spencer mentioned: “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”<br> 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> <br> Music from the show<br> Prince: Willing and Able<br> <br> Jason Mraz: I'm Yours<br> <br> Rush: One Little Victory<br> <br> <br> <br>
