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As the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous discovered, something profound can happen when addicts invite God or a power higher than themselves into their lives and attempts at recovery. Through understanding addiction as a symptom of spiritual dis-ease and addressing recovery as an attempt to restore a healthy balance between one\u2019s own ego and desires to run things versus the will and wisdom of God or the universe, AA and its Big Book and Twelve-Step offspring programs have saved countless lives. What are the spiritual principles at work in addiction recovery? Do addicts at their wits\u2019 and wills\u2019 ends discover secrets that are also at work in others' vital spiritual lives? Can non-addicts increase their own spirituality from interacting with recovering addicts and applying Big Book insights in their own spiritual journeys? However one ends up viewing the answers to these question, it's undeniable that powerful things happen in addiction recovery work that are worth close examination (along, of course, with proper celebration of the returns to joy in recovering addicts\u2019 lives). In this podcast, Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon and recovering addicts Keith, John, and Bill discuss addiction and recovery, AA\u2019s Twelve Steps, and the spiritual powers that seem to be unleashed in the interaction of addicts sharing and teaching another. They also introduce and discuss the LDS Church\u2019s Addition and Recovery Program (ARP) that is modeled after AA\u2019s Twelve-Steps but which has also adapted--in some ways successfully but still needing additional development--its approach to better match Mormon gospel teachings and to handle special concerns that arise when recovery programs become affiliated with institutions. The panel also discusses the special challenges Latter-day Saints often face in recovery, but also how the unprecedented levels of honesty and disclosure that operate in recovery work can help build even stronger LDS communities. Minute for minute, and right up to the very end, this is one of the most insight-packed episodes in Mormon Matters\u2019 history. We hope you will enjoy it, learn from and feel blessed by it, and share it.