Episode 26: How A “Devout Atheist Jew” Found Her Higher Power
Quote of The Day: reflect on the good things that happened this year
December 29, 2019
Episode 27: 5 Things to Let Go of in Recovery (Commitments and Resolutions)
January 9, 2020
Welcome to today’s show!
WHAT WE’LL LEARN:
- Learn how Dorri’s first “God” or higher power was Jimi Hendrix
- How the Nazi Holocaust is a thread throughout Dorri’s life
- How her father’s stolen Nazi Dagger became part of Dorri’s suicide plan
- Dorri learned about escape from a childhood game in 5th grade
- What the book Go Ask Alice had to do with Dorri’s story
- How art informed Dorri’s recovery after she woke up from a black out
- Dorri would romanticize drugs and how it made her feel like she “was somebody”
- What Dorri feels are the positive aspects of AA
- How she rationalized her drug/alcohol use and continued to use while going to 12-step meetings
- What she thinks about “the God within” in Buddhism
- What she considers her “God” to be now
- How Dorri’s AA sponsor of 31 years has helped her through the traumatic events in her life and why she still talks to her today
- What behavioral skill her sponsor has taught her that has helped with depression
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