Summary: <br> What does a lack of honesty with ourselves and others look like? What does the program teach us about the importance of honesty to our recovery?<br> <br> <br> <br> Ester and Spencer share their experience, strength, and hope on the topic of honesty, roughly following this outline.<br> <br> <br> <br> * Honesty before recovery – or was there?* How were we dishonest with ourselves and others?* What did we learn from our family of origin?* Honesty in recovery?* How was it modeled in meetings?* Learning to be honest with ourselves through sponsorship and the steps.* Still learning and growing.* The slippery slope of lying by omission.* How to be honest without breaking another's anonymity?<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Readings and Links<br> <br> <br> <br> Ester read from<a href="http://intimacy" class="broken_link"> </a><a href="https://therecoveryshow.com/book-intimacy">Intimacy in Alcoholic Relationships</a>, pp. 47 and 49.<br> <br> <br> <br> Spencer mentioned the Step 4 chapter in <a href="https://therecoveryshow.com/book-paths-to-recovery">Paths to Recovery</a>, where it talks about why we write out our fourth step inventory. He also referred to the reading on Tradition 8 in the same book.<br> <br> <br> <br> Richard recommended a reading from <a href="https://therecoveryshow.com/book-odat">One Day at a Time in Al-Anon</a>, August 15, about frustration.<br> <br> <br> <br> Upcoming topics<br> <br> <br> <br> An upcoming topic is titled “the disease of relationships”. Megan wrote “One of my favorite pages out of our CAL talks about alcoholism is a disease of relationships.” How has this disease shown up in your relationships?<br> <br> <br> <br> Please call us at 734-707-8795 or email <a href="mailto:feedback@therecoveryshow.com">feedback@therecovery.show</a> with your questions or experience, strength and hope. Or just leave a comment right here.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Music from the Show<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Aretha Franklin – Honest I Do<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Depeche Mode – Policy of Truth<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
