Worth Recovery

When we turn our will over to our higher power, we're not giving it up for someone else to play with.  We turn it over to the CARE of God.  Listen to Amy talk about three significant experiences in her life where she has seen the Care of God in her life.  

Connection is vital in recovery.  At a recent women's retreat, Amy interviewed women who wanted to share with you their tools of recovery.  Listen to Liberty, Sarah, and Pamela share their messages with you about Acceptance, Support, Rigorous Honesty and Hope for the future.  

What does it mean to turn over your will?  How do you do that? What does it require?  Listen to Amy discuss the answers to these questions and the identity crisis that comes along with it.

Will you go to meetings for the rest of your life?  Listen to Amy answer this question and talk about the fundamental principles of living in Recovery.  

Step 3 asks us to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.  Recovery demands that we be accountable for both our actions and our inactions.  Step 3 is where we being this accountability process.  Are you being a decision maker in your own life?

Finding a place to stay connected is essential if we are to live in recovery.  At a recent women's retreat Amy attended, she spoke to Becky, Candace, and Emily and recorded their brief message to you about recovery tools they have learned.  

In the conclusion of the series on Step 2, Amy provides suggestion on how to work this step in your life.  Listen to her outlines the four commitments necessary to working Step 2.  

In the conclusion of Lee's story, listen to her describe some of the events of the last three years in recovery including her worst and best moments.  "Don't let anyone tell you you're not worth it" is her concluding message. 

In continuing the deep dive on step two, listen to Amy talk about the ways insanity manifests in our lives.  If we agree that we need to be restored to sanity, as step two tells us, we must be willing to see and admit our own insanity.  How does insanity manifest in your life?

In the first of the Women's Stories Series, Amy talks with Lee, as she shares her story of addiction and recovery.  Everyone's story is just a little different.  Hear how addiction impacted Lee, her life and her family.  

The understanding of a Higher Power must be personal in order for it to work in our lives.  Listen to Amy share her experiences with defining her Higher Power and the challenge to define your own!

If there was one thing you wish people could understand about your addiction, what would it be?  Listen to Amy talk about the one thing she hopes all people remember about addiction, especially sex addiction.  

Continuing the deep dive into the 12 Steps of recovery, Amy discusses what step two is all about.  Coming to meetings, waking up to our insanity, and learning to build confidence in a power bigger than ourselves are all essential parts to understanding the beginning of step 2.  

In the concluding episode of the Talking Back Challenge, Amy discusses phase 4 of the design your own talking back statements.  Learn how to stay in the trenches and declare war on the negative shaming voices in your head.  Worksheets can be found at www.worthrecovery.com.

The steps work in so much more than addiction.  Listen to Amy discuss how step one is a life principle and how we can apply the principles of software development to our own lives.  Also, learn how to translate this principle into language everyone can understand.

In the second part of the series on Talking Back, Amy discusses phases 2 and 3 of crafting your own personalized, unique talking back statements to help you overcome the negative and shaming voices in your own head.  Episode 012 started the three part series which will conclude in Episode 016.  Check out the worksheets available on www.worthrecovery.com to help get you started!

Step one is more than just an admittance of powerlessness and unmanageability. In this admittance, we have the opportunity to connect with our story and put context to our lives.  Then, it becomes our responsibility to "change the things we can" as the serenity prayer tells us.  How have you worked step one in your life? Listen as Amy shares how it has worked in her life.  

Do you struggle with negative thoughts and shaming voices?  Do they stop you from acting in your life?  It is time to start talking back!  Listen to Amy talk about her four phase process for talking back!

Continuing the deep dive into the 12 steps of recovery, Amy explores how unmanageability shows up in her life.  Though we all have apparent unmanageability, we also have deceptive forms that can take awhile to see. Listen and discover the overt and covert unmangeability in your own life.  

Feeling discouraged?  Things not working out like you wanted them to? Listen to Amy talk about her recent experience with discouragement, the elements of hope, and learn three tips to building hope in your life.