The Way Out Podcast is on right now.  I’m Charlie, and this week, along side my co-hosts Jason and Alex we bring you an enlightening conversation on one of the single greatest four letter words in Recovery: hope.  No doubt the vast majority of us whom have battled drug and alcohol addiction can readily identify with the reverse of this Recovery Power Topic, the absence of hope  - hopelessness.  Addiction and alcoholism systematically and progressively remove hope from our hearts, leaving in a seemingly, and I do stress seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.  But alas there is hope for each and every one of us if we are in a place where we’re ready to grab onto it and chase it like we chased our next drunk or high.  Hope let’s us know there’s indeed a way out of the awful place our disease puts us in.  Listen Up.