Daily Reflection Podcast

#51 The Gift of Laughter (Feb 20) - Bee R. (Phila., PA)

• Michael L. & Lee M. • Season 2 • Episode 51

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By the time Bee hit bottom, she had forgotten the last time she laughed.  She went from being the life of the party to being sad all the time, or just numb. One day she had experienced an incredibly low-point in her life and found herself zombie-walking to an AA meeting where she found laughter and fellowship. Since then, she's rediscovered laughter it's clear from our chat that she values the healing power of humor. 

THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER

At this juncture, his A.A. sponsor usually laughs.

TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 26

Before my recovery from alcoholism began, laughter was one of the most painful sounds I knew. I never laughed and I felt that anyone else's laughter was directed at me! My self-pity and anger denied me the simplest of pleasures or lightness of heart. By the end of my drinking not even alcohol could provoke a drunken giggle in me. When my A.A. sponsor began to laugh and point out my self-pity and ego-feeding deceptions, I was annoyed and hurt, but it taught me to lighten up and focus on my recovery. I soon learned to laugh at myself and eventually I taught those I sponsor to laugh also. Every day I ask God to help me stop taking myself too seriously.

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