March 06, 2023

Looks Like a Duck, Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck...

7 minutes

Aloha and welcome to the Sobriety Rocks Podcast! I’m your host Kirk Waterman, today we to talk about Ducks...

Timothy Radman said,“If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.”

During my party days I thought reacting to whatever was going on around me, was a strength. The reality was, I was an overemotional drunk, who no longer helped in a crisis, I became the crisis.

Once I finally made it to recovery, instead of finding a bunch of ugly ducklings like me, there were rooms full of beautiful swans. Happy and useful, graciously gliding through the waters of life.

Little did I know, while you all looked calm and serene, you were dedicating nearly every moment of your lives to recovery. Not only your recovery, but the recovery of lots of other people. And the results were beautiful!

So beautiful, that I started to do what you were doing. A little at first, then a little more... Slowly but surely, I started feeling the same peace and calm you had. So much so, that I took to recovery the same way you did, like a duck to water.

All these years later, taking consistent action in recovery is just like being a duck. While we appear calm on the surface, we’re always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Today I say, let’s not just quack like a duck, let’s do all the work, so we can soar like an eagle.

We close with a brief 12-stp meditation to help bring us patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.

I’m Kirk Waterman, thank you for joining us. Aloha!

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