Shot glass of recovery. Work in the 12 steps. Listen to fellow speak. You can listen in wherever you may be. It's a shot glass of recovery. Okay, so hi everybody. My name is Karen and today I am the guest host on a Shot glass of recovery. I'm an alcoholic. This is going to be very informal discussion on the different ways people sponsor. I've asked Lisa, Charlene, myself and Sam to share on today's panel.

Last tip on sponsorship and being sponsored,  If you can look at the person who has been guiding you through the program and in a non-judgmental way, you're just seeing, wow, what they say and what they do are two different things or you feel you've outgrown them, maybe you met someone new who you really are inspired by...It's your recovery. Protect it. Value it. So my final piece of advice is it's ok to gently and kindly separate and move on. And one of the things that I recently started doing, if I take on a sponsee that has another sponsor, first I ask some questions, Because sometimes people just want to cut and run because They don't like the honesty that their sponsor just gave them. I'm not going to tell you anything different, so I want to know why are you interested in a change?

Why does someone want to leave the sponsor that they currently have? If it's a legitimate reason like that, like, you know, there might come a time in every relationship where you surpass the person that was once your guide and that's okay so it's time to choose another one so what i have started to suggest is you sit down with your potential new sponsor or on your own and you write a thank you letter not a you're fired not a goodbye see you later you suck . But a thank you letter and you focus on "Thank you for your time, Thank you for your honesty, thank you for being vulnerable and honestly sharing your journey and experience with me.   Something like that. 

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