Join other women in recovery for a winter weekend retreat at the Center at Mariandale. Together we will explore our "Design for Living" from the Big Book of Alcoholics Annonymous, and with prayer and discussion we will review the Twelve Steps of recovery...and also reflect on the "New Frontier" of Emotional Sobriety.

Throughout the weekend, there will be time for input, reflection, small group sharing and an Open meeting on Saturday evening. The retreat begins with dinner on Friday at 6pm followed by the Opening Conference at 7pm.

"The capacity of emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodnes of the gift of human life." Thomas Keating

Bill W. writes the following on the importance of Emotional Sobriety; If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependency and its consequent unhealthy demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling liabilities.

Then we can be set free to live and love; we may then be able to twelfth-step ourselves, as well as others, into emotional sobriety.

The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear-primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

Dates and Time: Fri., Jan. 17 at 5pm thru Sun., Jan. 19 at 11am.
Presenter: Sr. Peggy Murphy, OP
Fee: $295 (all inclusive)

About the Presenter:

Sr. Peggy Murphy, OP has worked in the field of Counseling and Education in New York City, Puerto Rico and Orange and Sullivan Counties in New York. Sister is a New York Certified Addiction Counselor and has worked in inpatient treatment at Villa Veritas and Pius XII Adolescent Center, in Downstate and Fishkill Correction Facilities and in Outpatient treatment with Children of Alcoholics. She has a Bachelor's degree in Education from St. John's University, a Master's degree in Pastoral Counseling from Iona College Graduate School and a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work from Yeshiva University (Manhattan) and a Doctorate in Theology from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She has served as Chairperson of the Division of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at Mount Saint Mary College (Newburgh, New York) where she is currently a Professor Emerita of World Religions.