August 11 – Healing What Still Hurts

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Aug 11, 2026 · 13m · transcript

Corey brings a question a friend put to him about recovery as a spiral (always circling, always moving) and the thing that troubled him about the picture: there was no way out of it. He points instead to the free man in the Big Book, the one who can go anywhere other free people go so long as he keeps a certain simple attitude, and lands on what actually changed for him. It was rarely the circumstances; it was the point of view he brought into them. Pastor Mike picks it up with his own first Fourth Step, when he told his sponsor he had no resentments at all; he loved everybody, got along with…