{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Emotional Sobriety - Recovered 424","description":"This topic is in reference to an article Bill W. published in 1958\n\nWhat is Emotional Sobriety?\nthe development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.\nWhat types of emotions are most vulnerable to instability in sobriety?\nThose adolescent urges that so many of us have for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance -- urges quite appropriate to age seventeen -- prove to be an impossible way of life when we are at age forty-seven or fifty-seven.\nWhat character asset (virtue) is most needed to achieve emotional sobriety?\n Humility\nAccording to Bill, why are peace and joy illusive?\nHow shall our unconscious  be brought into line with what we actually believe, know and want! \nFor Bill, what is the problem for him?\n dependence on people to supply his needs\nWhat was his solution to the problem\n To love others first regardless if it is returned\nWhat is the root of the problem?\n\n unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand\n","author_name":"Recovered Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/recoveredcast.com","html":"