S4 EP7: All of You is Welcome with Jim McElroy

When 12-Step recovery meets the contemplative tradition, something profoundly practical emerges. Jim McElroy has spent decades at that intersection, sharing how Centering Prayer and the Welcoming Prayer offer those in recovery a new relationship to pain, not an escape from it. In this conversation, through vulnerable storytelling and the wisdom of Thomas Keating, Jim explores healing as integration rather than elimination, and how both practices bridge the language of 12-Step powerlessness with the contemplative language of consent.

Featured Resources:

• 12 Practice for Daily Life: The Welcoming Prayer - Twelve Steps, Thomas Keating: https://youtu.be/i7VcDwgTyas?is=ga1OmV6AkbfCejnp
• Welcoming Prayer resources: https://cp12stepoutreach.org/welcoming-prayer/
• 12StepOutreach Centering Prayer resources: https://cp12stepoutreach.org/

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