Am I the right kind of busy?  Where does self-worth come from?  Helping versus enabling?  Being a victim versus a participant?  Susan shares, in part 1 of 4 of Episode 11, about how the booklet "When I Got Busy, I Got Better" (P-78) impacted her life.  We discuss the different types of fear in Chapter One, how service keeps us from isolating, & that we're so glad there's no performance review in service work!

QUOTABLE MOMENT FROM SUSAN:

• "I used to say I was born angry!"

LITERATURE MENTIONED & RELATED EPISODES:

• "When I Got Busy, I Got Better"  
• "From Survival To Recovery"  –  Episode 4: part 1 of 2,   Episode 4: part 2 of 2,  &  Episode 13: parts 1 - 4 
• "Alcoholism, A Merry-Go-Round Named Denial"  –  Episode 9: part 1 of 4 

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