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Podcast: Recovery (Sort Of) - The Podcast
Episode: 82: Tradition 5 - Each Group Has but One Primary Purpose - To Carry the Message to the Addict Who Still Suffers (Sort Of)
Description: We are talking the 5th Tradition - each group has but one primary purpose, to carry the message to the addict who still suffers. Tradition Five says that the 12 step fellowship has one primary purpose. Does this leave room for secondary purposes? Can a 12 step program also have other goals or objectives? Why is it that we come to a program to get clean, but our primary purpose in the Fifth Tradition isn't to get and stay sober? Are we aware that our primary purpose is to carry the message? What is the message we carry? That an addict...