Relevant Recovery

Can something good become spiritually unhealthy? In this episode, we explore how meetings, sponsorship, work, and even our knowledge of the Big Book can become substitutes for God. Join us as we examine our motives, challenge our dependencies, and consider what it really means to put God first.

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Learning to accept a closed door without turning it into a spiritual crisis. God's will doesn't always mean getting what we asked for. The spiritual challenge is learning to trust God, accept reality, and continue doing the next right thing—even when the answer is no.

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The alcoholic often tries to solve a spiritual problem with material, relational, emotional, or behavioral solutions. The problem isn't that we have normal human desires—the problem is when those desires become demands and we make getting what we want a condition of our peace.

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In past episodes, we’ve talked about inventories; resentment, fear, sex, even the financial inventory, but this episode will tackle a different question: What is Step 4 actually supposed to accomplish? This is not another “how to take an inventory” episode — instead, we’ll examine what happens after the inventory is written.

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This week, we tackle a classic recovery trap: trying to think our way into better behavior. The truth is, we gotta ACT our way into new thinking—never the other way around. Tune in as we unpack why the alcoholic mind loves to over-intellectualize and play God with outcomes we were never meant to carry.

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Recovery isn't just about putting the drink down—it’s about learning how to self-sacrifice, build lifelong fellowship, and shift from being a taker to a giver. In Episode 268 of Relevant Recovery, we share the power of completely unplugging, seeing AA in action through our recovery family, and dropping our guard to experience true, shoulder-to-shoulder connection.

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A simple program or “design for living that really works”. . . Why, when there are millions of examples around the world of people whose lives have been revolutionized, do people still refuse the “design”? AA is a very simple program, designed for complicated people. Why do so many not surrender to this simple program or this simple way of life? Why is the message quite often about not drinking, when the “program” is clearly about so much more than that?

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The High Cost of People-Pleasing. We love to talk about being "considerate, helpful, and kind" in recovery. But what happens when our desire to keep everyone happy isn't actually love at all—it's just codependency, people-pleasing or fear wrapped in a spiritual bow? Today we look at how people-pleasing is actually a subtle form of manipulation, and why true emotional sobriety requires us to trade the approval of people for the service of God.

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This week Ryan joins the show in Heathers absence which should definitely be an improvement. 

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Reaching out isn't a burden—it’s a lifeline. On todays episode we unpack why we hesitate to reach out, reframe the act of calling another alcoholic through the lens of AA literature, and recognize that reaching out isn't a burden—it’s a gift to both people.

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