Would be great to have you! If you set this thread to ‘watching’ you will get notifications whenever someone posts here, which may or may not be what you want…! But I will post on the morning (UK time) with a reminder and details of the meeting topic to be covered that day 
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How do I set a thread to watching? Sorry, I’m being thick!
Well that looks massively obvious, let me look now! 
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Haha it’s one of those things that’s easy when you know how! I only found out because someone else had written about it. Thanks for the screenshot @icebear ! 
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Good morning wise friends! Meeting today at 1pm UK time - I think that’s 6am Pacific time, 9am Eastern time, 11pm Australian Eastern time.
Zoom meeting details:
Tuesdays, 13:00 GMT (British Summer Time) join via this link
or use meeting ID: 558 318 4669 password: 12345
Today we will share the Appreciative Joy meditation from the Recovery Dharma YouTube channel:
And read the section ‘Recovery is Possible’ from the Recovery Dharma book, p. 68.
All welcome
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Morning! I’m going to join but its school holidays so will have my mic off! 
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Haha well that will make it fun. It’s all extra opportunities to practice acceptance 
Enjoy the meet. Going out to work now so alas.
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Darn, I’m missing out this time but looking forward to a future date!
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Sorry, I won’t be able to join as this is in my working hours. Enjoy the meetings. 
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Nice to meet you @Hailstrom ! How did you find it? @Tinele hope you enjoyed what you managed to stick around for while you were at the allotment! @emc2018 did you pop in at the start? Wasn’t sure.
I was totally distracted to start with trying to work out who might have come from TS 
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I really love a lot about the bit of the book we read today. It’s a great summary of some of the core principles of Recovery Dharma.
Something I shared was in relation to the idea that “Recovery transforms how we show up for those around us.” (p. 71). It made me think about something that came up when I did a bit of Tara Brach’s Radical Compassion challenge in April -
The other thing that I didn’t share in the meeting, but have thought about after, is that reminder that the process of recovery (or awakening, maybe) is a lifelong thing. It’s about being mindful and making adjustments to the situations we find ourselves in. Because things do change. It’s something I’ve been trying to work out with my mental health… What does better look like? I suppose it will look like different things at different times. There’s no one right way, and what feels like the right thing at the moment might not in another week, month, year etc. So just got to go with the flow and come back to finding some peace in the idea that the future is never certain. It’s something I can find some comfort in but at the same time, it feels deeply unnerving.
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Yes, nice to properly meet you too 
I had a rare window of opportunity so I thought ‘seize the day!’ and logged in. Glad I did. It certainly helped knowing that a friendly and familiar face would be on the call. That’s the first time I’ve shared aswell which I’m happy about (even though I did feel like I was about to melt when I started talking 
).
I struggled a bit with the meditation but that was no surprise to me. I haven’t been engaged in my practice this past month or so. It was always going to be a challenge. But simply taking the time to pause and acknowledge is always benificial regardless.
I’m going to see if there is anyway of attending these more regularly. Unfortunately it clashes with a work meeting which happened to be cancelled today. I’ll chat with my boss and see if there is any room for change. Even if I skip the odd meeting so I can attend. Fingers crossed 
Thank you Sian, I really enjoyed it and am hopeful that I can see you in another meeting again soon 
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I had similar thoughts aswell. That recovery is an ongoing approach to life, not a process with a clearly defined end. And is something that stretches far beyond the act of getting sober. I think this has a lot to do with why I experienced such a decline after my first year. Whether consciously or unconsciously, I had an expectation that there would be this final point to the process. A year seems like the most obvious time frame to put on it. Once I realised that wasn’t the case things began to unravel. Tbh it took me the best part of my second sober year to come to terms with that and not resent it.
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Ditching the daughter and going to the allotment was a terrible idea, my phone overheated and crashed during the meditation . I’m away next week but will join Tuesday 10th August. This time at my laptop with mic and camera on! Nice to see a few faces at the start. See you all very soon! Lizzie
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Me too. This was happening next to me…
But just making time to sit, to try and come back from distractions, that’s what it’s all about!
So glad you were able to make it and it would of course be amazing if you could get to more in future but of course understand work can make that difficult. And fwiw your share was great, I really related to it.
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Hi @siand , nope it wasn’t me, sorry. Unfortunately, 11pm on a work night is too late for me. I’m really busy with work at the moment and I’m not finding a lot of time for much else. Probably why I’m feeling so tired and stressed lately.
Will hopefully find some balance soon. 
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Meeting today in about 10 mins - 1pm UK time - 6am Pacific time, 9am Eastern time, 11pm Australian Eastern time.
Zoom meeting details:
Tuesdays, 13:00 GMT (British Summer Time) join via this link
or use meeting ID: 558 318 4669 password: 12345
Today we will practice the Body Sensations meditation from the Recovery Dharma YouTube channel:
And read the section ‘What is Recovery Dharma?’ from the Recovery Dharma book , p. vii.
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I debated joining but had a work zoom at same time. Maybe one day! Thanks for sharing this, @siand
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