RECO12
An Addiction Recovery Lunch-hour Speaker Meeting. A new guest speaker with at least 1 year sobriety from any addiction, and who is actively working in recovery, will speak for 25 minutes each week on a specific recovery topic. This will be followed by a moderated 25 minute Q & A session from the live audience. The live speaker meetings will be held on Zoom each Friday at 10:00 AM Pacific time. To attend the live recordings and have the opportunity of asking questions of the guest, please send an email to reco12pod@gmail.com and request to get on the invitation list. To become a Reco12 Spearhead and support this mission, please consider subscribing at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1117700/support . All aspects of recovery will be covered, including but not limited to: Steps, Blessings of Recovery, Relapse Prevention, Sponsoring, Specific aspects of recovery, What to do if I relapse, etc. We invite each guest speaker to seek guidance so they can reflect the light they have been given in order to inspire hope, meaning, growth and worth in each of us, the listening audience.
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Nanci B - Abstinence: No Matter What - Meeting 90
Here is a little about Nancy in her own words. "I was taken to my first meeting of OA January 28, 1975 at Beverly Hills High School more than 45 years Ago. At that time I weighed approximately 300lbs. I was trying to separate from a man who was beating me up on a daily basis, now called a battered wife. I had a seven an 9 year old totally out of control from neglect. I had smuggled dope across border with Heroin Addicts to have friends. I thought if I helped them, I could have a friend. I was arrested and taken to jail.
I was a fat kid and fat my entire life. Spent a decade on drugs given to me by top physicians in order to lose weight. My parents had me institutionalized. They mortgaged their home but I still got bigger. I now am a woman who has dignity. I put in my mouth what nurtures me and only have friends that are kind to me. They say beyond your wildest dreams.
I had no dreams. This disease took them all away so how do I live now? ….free of shame and resentment and anger it is called happy, joyous, and free." Nancy is also active in AA and a member of alanon, aca, coda, and emotional health anonymous. I am a world service delegate and regional delegate and served on the local intergroup board and active in aa hospitals and institutions and worked as an addiction counselor.
Reco12 is an organization with the mission of learning and sharing the similarities of addiction of all kinds and gaining and sharing tools and hope from others who are walking a similar path. Speakers from our past meetings have represented many fellowships and identify with addictions with such variety of alcoholism, drugs, food, sex, gambling, theft, just to name a few.
Resources from this meeting:
Overeaters Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous
Adult Children of Alcoholics
CODA
Narcotics Anonymous
Gamblers Anonyous
Fat is a Family Affair (book)
Sugar Blues (book)
Nanci's Prayer that she shared:
Happy Moments Praise God
Difficult Moments Seek God
Quiet Moments. Worship God
Painful Moments. Trust God
Every Moment. THANK GOD
If you wish to contact Nanci, her email is: nancigo@yahoo.com
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