{"id":427,"date":"2020-12-06T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/?p=427"},"modified":"2024-05-30T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:12:41","slug":"sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/06\/sponsorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heard  in a Sponsorship Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/swim2.jpg?resize=397%2C127&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/swim2.jpg?w=397&amp;ssl=1 397w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/swim2.jpg?resize=300%2C96&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Doing Al-Anon without a sponsor is like going to the swimming pool and watching other people swim.<\/li><li>Sponsorship is not a lifetime commitment. Letting go is not a sign of failure<\/li><li>The sponsor holds the flashlight while the sponsee does the digging.<\/li><li>I give spiritual consent to my sponsor, so if s\/he suggests something, I will do it.<\/li><li>When my sponsee calls, it is like free money.<\/li><li>Anonymity: I do not share who my sponsor is, because that would set them on a pedestal.<\/li><li>Having multiple sponsees helps keep the sponsor from obsessing on one of them.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard in a Sponsorship Workshop Doing Al-Anon without a sponsor is like going to the swimming pool and watching other people swim. Sponsorship is not a lifetime commitment. Letting go is not a sign of failure The sponsor holds the flashlight while the sponsee does the digging. I give spiritual consent to my sponsor, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-service","category-program","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/serenity4me.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flashlight-in-woods.jpg?fit=275%2C183&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serenity4me.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}