Inukshuk with Julia Heidmann

Episode 17 May 03, 2025 00:35:50
Inukshuk with Julia Heidmann
Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
Inukshuk with Julia Heidmann

May 03 2025 | 00:35:50

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Hosted By

Patrick Newman

Show Notes

Frequent collaborator and fellow recoverer Julia Heidmann stops by to talk about the role emotional sobriety has played in her relationships with others and herself.

 

From our friends in Canada:

 

“Inukshuk, pronounced (in-ook-shook), is a stone monument erected in the image of humans. One of its purposes was to serve as direction markers in the harsh and desolate Arctic. It was a tool of survival and a symbol of unselfish acts of the Inuit people.

 

The Inukshuk symbolizes co-operation, balance and unselfishness: the idea that teaching and group effect is greater than individual effort.

Each stone is a separate entity, yet each supports and is supported by the one above and the one below it. No one piece is any more or any less important than the other.

 

Its strength lies in its unity. Its significance comes from its meaning as a whole. The Inukshuk reminds us of our interdependent responsibilities to invest our efforts today, to direct a better way for all of us tomorrow.”

 

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Allen and Patrick will soon be visiting Dublin, for Friendly Circle Berlin's "Recovery Reimagined 2025", details below:

 

https://friendlycircleberlin.org/recovery-reimagined-2025 

 

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