How I Came to Believe: hope in recovery

Atheists in Recovery

Welcome to today’s show!

WHAT WE’LL LEARN:

• How David’s earliest roots brought up feelings of isolation and sadness. Learn why being one of only a few Catholics from East Tennessee had a huge impact on David.
• How David’s first drink as an altar boy sipping the Priests wine gave him a feeling that “everything’s going to be okay.”
• David recalls a real hatred to be himself and a hatred for everyone else that “wasn’t like me.”
• David said he went to treatment 5 times in the 80’s for “back problems.” I went to get my family off my back, to get my friends off my back etc…
• When David’s sister “cut him off” that was the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” And he was ready to seek help.
• How David now realized the God of his understanding in his youth was not a nice god. Recovery introduced David to a higher power that was different than anything he was ever raised with.
• How Covid and the isolation involved with living during a pandemic prompted David to increase his Zoom recovery meetings
• Where and how David identified his Higher Power (and it continues to develop)
• David’s message to the A.I.R. community

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Augustinerecovery.com
• [e-mail] (email)

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