THE EXTRAVAGANT PROMISES PODCAST

THE EXTRAVAGANT PROMISES PODCA
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Are these extravagant promises? We think not. A podcast about reckoning. recovery and redemption. We share experience, strength, and hope.

  1. 08/18/2022

    EPISODE #57: WHISPER

    What if I told you ... would you believe it? How could you? How many times do we hear in the Rooms about lives that are second to none, lives worth celebrating, when, at one time, all was lost? Do we believe them? Have we ever heard the converse? Of course not. Rarely have we seen a person fail ... So why are we so stubborn, why don't we believe? We need to see for ourselves, and we few, we proud few who are lucky enough to stick around until the miracle happens, well, we truly "came to believe."

    31 min

  2. 07/19/2022

    EPISODE #56: LUCKY SEVEN

    LUCKY SEVEN. Today marks seven years of continuous, uninterrupted sobriety. On Father’s Day 2015, I wrote a letter to God petitioning Him, begging Him to save me. I needed an angel, in a bad way. My Higher Power didn’t send me one angel, He sent me a program of angels in the earthly form of a group of drunks just trying to stay sober and stay alive called Alcoholics Anonymous. Since getting sober, I have endured death of loved ones, ruin and wreckage in many forms as well as victory and glory. I have tried to treat those imposters all the same. It wasn’t all pink clouds, but I have kept faith that my Higher Power loves me, and if I can just stay sober today and help one drunk do the same, I will earn and live a life worth celebrating. My name is Gregory B. My sobriety date is July 19, 2015. I have a sponsor, who has a sponsor and I sponsor other dudes who are trying to get sober and stay that way. I go to meetings and I’ve worked the Steps. I support other drunks who need a helping hand or just a kind word of encouragement. These are not extravagant promises. They come true if you work for them and if you let them. Luck's got nothing to do with it. Neither do I. Just my Higher Power. I love you and so does my Higher Power.

    46 min

  3. 07/07/2022

    EPISODE #55: ONE BAD APPLE

    The Judgment of Paris: Discordia throws the golden apple into the banquet (to which she was not invited), and the rest, as they say is history. Unprecedented carnage, an Odyssey, the fall of Troy, death of Gods and Mortals alike, a stolen bride, and of course, the death of Paris himself. All because of one bad apple. Like the Waylon Jennings song goes, "there's one in every crowd, for cryin' out loud, why was it always turning out to be me?" Why indeed?

    35 min

  4. 04/01/2021

    EPISODE #54: SAME AS IT EVER WAS.

    Recovery and the Twelve Steps are both living breathing organisms, institutions, theories, and principles, but they are solid and fundamental at the same time. That is the beauty and the mystery of our Program.

    49 min

  5. 02/08/2021

    EPISODE #53: TOLERATED

    We get the conduct we tolerate. This is nowhere more important than the conduct we tolerate in ourselves.

    32 min

  6. 01/20/2021

    EPISODE #52: ABANDONED

    In this episode, we continue the discussion and theme from our last episode regarding Outside Issues, and how they lead to emotional dysregulation and instability, which is the precursor to a relapse for sure.

    26 min

  7. 01/07/2021

    EPISODE #51: OUTSIDE ISSUES

    Due to the chaos in our country and the impact it has on a lot of us staying sober, this episode leaves our current topic and addresses the important concept of “outside issues” and keeping our focus and equipoise when all around us are losing their minds. This is apolitical and ideologically neutral.

    25 min

  8. 01/02/2021

    EPISODE #50: STRAIGHT UP RIGHTEOUS

    Today we continue our exploration of the 1903 treatise the “Homely Virtues,”particularly Chapter I entitled, “Straightness.” While this term may connote many things to many people in today’s parlance, in 1903 the term was used to mean “honest,” “earnest,” and “genuine.” Aren’t these the bedrocks of our recovery?

    25 min
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Are these extravagant promises? We think not. A podcast about reckoning. recovery and redemption. We share experience, strength, and hope.

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  • Creator
    THE EXTRAVAGANT PROMISES PODCA
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2022
  • Episodes
    56
  • Rating
    Explicit
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