Episodes
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Knowing AA History: Spotlighting Barry L
Many people had a hand in changing the course of Alcoholics Anonymous, and consequently, the entire peer-to-peer, mutual aid world. Some of these stories are lost or buried--not hidden from us, just so deep in archives that no one who's come across them had a grasp on their significance to you…
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Science behind the 12 Steps? Joe Nowinski PhD's new book
This year, a new book looks at 12 Step outcomes. It’s called, If You Work It It Works! The Science Behind 12 Step Recovery by psychologist and award winning author, Joe Nowinski PhD. It is a jargon-free look at how, 12 Step modality help alcoholics/addicts. I read it, I interviewed Dr. Nowinski…
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Rights and the Duty to Accomodate in AA: getting ready for the 2015 conference
As A.A. readies for its annual business meeting (for Canada & USA) in April, I just came back from C.E.R.A.A.S.A., the Canadian Eastern Regional A.A. Service Assembly which was held outside of Toronto – Mississauga February 20th to 22nd. There are ten districts from the Ontario/Manitoba border…
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Food Junkies: Food and other process addictions
Listen now to Episode 10 of Rebellion Dogs Radio on Pod-0-matic HERE What do Maxwell House Coffee, Grape-Nuts cereal, Kool-Ade, Jello and Marlborough cigarettes all have in common? Well their formulas are engineered by chemists that all work for the same companies. Companies that continue to get...
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Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode 9 - We Agnostics & Freethinkers International AA Conference in Santa Monica
Welcome to Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode IX where we bring you highlights of the first ever We Agnostics & Freethinkers International A.A. Conference from Santa Monica California, November 2014. So much content is available on this and we include many links included in this blog. Rebellion Dogs...
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Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode 8 - Coping with ADHD or OCD
Dual-diagnoses: Addiction + OCD or ADHD and how to deal with it. Rebellion Dogs Radio #8 features Dr. Tim Bilkey and professional rocker, Paul Nelson Just listen by scrolling down and playing our embedded Radio player or click on the track above. Download a PDF of Episode 8. This download...
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The Big Book: Sacred or outdated? What AA Stewards, past and present say about progress vs protection
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous - On one side are the thumpers, muckers and literalists who claim than no modality has touched the healing force of the Twelve Steps as outlined in Alcoholics Anonymous. On the other side, reformers say it's misogynistic, religious, archaic, while it was a…
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Rebellion Dogs Book Club: Podcast 6 talks about good reads
Get your reading spectacles on – It’s Book Club time!Podcast #6 looks at great recovery books that widen our gateway. On www.RebellionDogsPublishing.com you will find a bookstore. We’re talking about reading on this blog-post (and podcast). Not only is planet Earth’s first secular daily…
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Get your Pride On, AA: What AA can learn from World Pride
Read, view or print as a PDF For 30 years, Toronto has celebrated lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual & queer (LGBTQ) Pride. This year, Toronto was host to Word Pride. According to the World Pride Toronto website the full diversity of celebrants June 22 to 29th, 2014 is an estimated attendance of...
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Rebellion Dogs Radio # 5, Standing: Who get's a say in AA?
Print or read the PDF Hear it as a podcast from Pod0matic “Who is more contemptible than he who scorns knowledge of himself?” John of Salisbury (1120 – 1180) John Ralston Saul commentates on the relationships between citizenship, individualism and the public good. He argues that Western society…
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Sober Truths: 50 years of AA critics, bad science and bad attitudes
Finding Fault like there's a reward to it - Isn't there more to constructive criticism than pointing out the faults in others? Meet the new book (same as the old book) that takes a pot-shot at AA, 12 Steps and the Treatment modality that embraces this "bad science." Authors Lance and Zackary…
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Grief, the missing link in Big-Book-modality. An interview with John McAndrew
John McAndrew, MA, MDiv, is a spiritual teacher, facilitator, counselor, musician, and poet. We found him at the National Conference of Addiction Disorders in Anaheim California, September 2013 giving a talk that asked if the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous is still relevant as a treatment...
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Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode Two: Wellness Factors
Rebellion Dogs Radio was partly inspired by the 2013 National Conference of Addiction Disorders (NCAD). Next episode will feature our discussion with John McAndrew, MA, MDiv, the director of Sensible Spirituality Associates. This week we have another NCAD connection. Wellness Factors came by out...
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Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode One
Welcome to Rebellion Dogs Addiction & Recovery Radio Show, bringing you a 21st century look at 12 Step life, with more bite and less dogma. Play the show in your own audio player or download it. Please note, it's a big file and might take a couple of minutes to download. Otherwise, scroll down…
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Editors want to print what you want to say.
Download PDF Here - Have your voice heard if you have something important to say. If there is anything I can offer about what to write, I learned it from my teachers in songwriting. Ralph Murphy, VP of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, is a producer, performer and...
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Retiring General Service Board Chair, Ward Ewing reflects on his time with Alcoholics Anonymous
At the 63rd General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous, April 21 to 27, 2013, after 11 years as a nonalcoholic Trustee, Ward Ewing stepped down as AA’s Chair of the Board. Taking over for Ewing, fellow non-alcoholic Trustee, Terry Bedient is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare...
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Here the pannel on "Growing Along Spiritual Lines" given by Joe C and Joe L (priest)
There is a Solution was the theme of the Ontario Regional Conference of AA April 12th, 13th and 14th. Saturday, the annual Spirituality panel was shared by AA member (and Catholic Priest) Joe L and Beyond Belief Agnostics and Freethinkers Group member (and author) Joe C. You'll be amazed at who…
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