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BEYOND BELIEF CLICK the Book PIC above
This is new for 2023, (some of) you asked for merch, now you have it! “Rebellion Dogs our every sip at first” ha, ha, ha. T-shirts, hoodies plus these selections of drink-ware. Now something to sip from or wear while musing on daily reflections. More of what you don't really need but sometimes we want - fridge magnets, throw pillows etc.
Some of it is available, now. CLICK the PIC to get your own (oR cLiCk HERE) more wacky gift ideas at RedBubble.com, pillow T-shirts, coasters and more
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Survey Says: A look at 50 years of demographics and trends revealed from membership surveys from 1968 to 2022.
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Dead and gone for over 50 years now, worshipers fawn, detractors throw stones, and the late Bill Wilson continues to be part of addiction/recovery discussions every day. Rebellion Dogs Radio is pleased to sit down with Bob K and chat about his historical fiction, The Secret Diaries of Bill W. Episode 72 covers a lot of ground really but here's the story behind the story which is the untold secrets of AA founder, Bill Wilson. CLICK the PIC or HERE to HEAR all about it.
March 2023 Blog is all about service and it's way to inform lasting recovery and un-stuck any of us who do not feel the joy of living a life of meaning. Help another, water a plant, cuddle your pet, while self-reflection matters, turning our eyeballs from staring at the monkeys in our brain to look out and engage life, that's ½ of it. Anyway, we talk all about it. Or write all about it. If you want “talk about it” google Emotional Sobriety Podcast as Joe C is a guest for a two-part series on Emotional Sobriety and the Twelve Traditions and 12-Step service.
March BLOG: Service in Recovery
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These researchers, pictured below are talking between sessions at the Recovery Capital Conference of Canada in Calgary (April 2022). Both of these men have been involved in recovery research for decades. We all have anecdotal lived experience so we have something to say when people ask, “What are the chances of getting and staying sober?” “Is relapse to be expected?” “How sober is sober, exactly?”
If you are long-term sober, so dry you're a fire hazard, here's a blog that can put your know-how up against scientific evidence about outcome rates and what influences recovery success. If you're new, we have some idea what's on your mind and while every journey is unique, this will give you a sense of what it takes, and what works best. READ IT, SHARE IT, HAVE YOUR SAY HERE
PODCAST PIT-STOPS with JOE C. - we stopped by three fellow recovery podcasters (click to listen)
How many podcasts do you listen to? Is it like a meeting-on-demand, you can tune into for free anytime, any place? Maybe every home group should have a podcast, sharing member's unique stories or your group's meeting-after-the-meeting coffee talk.
Available on YOUTUBE on Herb K's site from our co-hosting 1/2 day workshop Saturday April 23, 2022. Our topic is Step Two and Three. An atheist and a Big Book-literalist discuss the secular, practical path to AA sobriety's legitimate equivalency to the spiritual/religious version.
INFO HERE Watch or Listen here on YOUTUBE
Do you want a 40% change at sustained, engaging recovery? Or would you prefer an 80% chance? Some of that will be informed by decision you make in the first days, months and year of sobriety.
Joe Nowinski is back on Rebellion Dogs Radio. Recovery After Rehab: A Guide for the Newly Sober and their Loved Ones is like the owners manual to your new sober life. "So, I'm finished my stint in rehab; what do I do now? What do I do first?" For all the $$$ you spent and/or your health provider spent on your in (or out) patient care to treat alcohol use (or other drug) disorder, the $28 for this book will help improve outcome rates. Listen now or download from your favorite podcast sites
SECULAR AA Meetings on Demand: Listen to International Conference of Secular AA speakers and panels any time, anywhere CLICK HERE
Click here for hour of speakers panels, recovery talk from International Conference of Secular AA December 5, 2020
For the one-on-one interview CLICK HERE for Rebellion Dogs Radio
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AA History: Growing in Understanding Group, Zoom ID 838 6045 3157 passcode TOGROWIN, Worldwide
From 1968 to the 2022 (soon to be released) AA Membership Survey in the USA we check our demographics for outreach to healthcare professionals and the general public. We also use the survey to take inventory of how we are doing: who is getting the help they need; who's being left behind. Looking at them collectively we can measure trends.
The Great Britain 2020 Membership Survey reveals two new talking points: How are AA members doing with the proliferation of Zoom (and other online) AA meetings? What do AA's really believe? Members answer if they believe in a higher power and how religious or secular they are.
This event is part of a series from the Growing in Understanding group.
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Free ZOOM event; help yourself to a program in several different time-zones ICSAA 2022 Program Oct 29 & 30 @ https://www.omagod.org/announcements
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this is "some of" the history of atheists and agnostics in AA. Secular AA has "widened AA's gateway" according to founders and "isn't REAL AA" according to fundamentalists. In this meeting we will take a historical look at gatherings: secular AA meetings, conferences and literature in AA.
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updated and revised history of secular AA: meetings and other gathering, the impact of Zoom, barriers and bridges, Secular AA: is it a different program or a different language?
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The Spirituality Series is sponsored by Mary & Joseph Retreat Center Herb K & Joe C will discuss their respective approaches: Traditional VS Non-Traditional and dialogue about their understanding and experience then open the workshop to participant questions. Herb K will unpack his understanding and experience with the Big Book from the “spiritual” perspective – helping participants clarify the practical meanings of: FAITH; CHOICE; DECISION. Joe C will share his approach from the “secular” viewpoint – addressing the % of people coming from or drawn toward atheism or agnosticism, modeling how to have an effective personal experience.
From Joe C.: “Step Two and Three are a process for a freethinker like me--not an event. My unaided will was insufficient to sustain sobriety. What resources would suffice; where would I go or what/whom would I turn to for the care that I needed? None of these are original ideas, but I heard them at AA meetings and applied them to my life: a) the power of example, b) a Group of Drunks, c) a higher purpose. As ideas and practical tools, these three touchstones have all been instrumental throughout my AA recovery. I see in these principles the same practices and hope of Steps Two and Three that others find who ‘call it God-consciousness’."
Herb K’s journey ~ 7 years in Claretian seminary, a graduate education in psychology, 40 years in human resources consulting, certification as a Spiritual Director, active participation in 12 Step Fellowship since 1984 and the publication of 3 books on spiritual awakening. www.herbk.com
Joe C’s search for a secular daily reflection book for people in recovery came up empty, leading to his writing “Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life” (2013). Joe is a broadcaster & author, clean and sober since Disco music. His writing, research and reporting efforts have been directed towards music, finance, travel, mental health and addiction/recovery. Joe hosts a syndicated show on IndieCan Radio, devoted to the emerging music scene and Rebellion Dogs Radio, a contemporary look at 12-step life. Contact Joe at https://rebelliondogspublishing.com/
Cost: $25 - Zoom information and links will be emailed to you a few days before each event. info: https://maryjoseph.org/event/steps-2-3-we-agnostics-a-choice-a-decision/ register: https://giving.ncsservices.org/App/Form/ca432038-394c-4a06-992f-f6485beca71e
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Mar 5 2023
Rebellion Dogs Blog March 2023
Emotional Sobriety, stewardship and service, the Twelve Traditions, what is the connection in the role of finding lasting, meaningful recovery?
Download or read as a PDF HERE
Inspired am I, by the March 2023 AA…
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Feb 2 2023
Oh Canada! Less people do spiritual stuff, like praying or turning to AA for help.
Read/print this February 2023 Blog in PDF
The 2021 Canada census data shows a transitioning diversity in our neighborhood (culturally/racially diverse Canada) and…
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Dec 24 2022
Can we end of pessimism in 2023?
Expectations lag behind outcome rates of recovery from addiction
Shake any family tree and one or two drunks fall out of it; that…
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Nov 29 2022
Read/download the PDF version of this blog, Remembering John Lauritsen: A Freethinker in AA
Professionals, and hopefully more people in recovery from substance use disorder, are discovering or re-discovering the practical lived experience offered in AA’s “little book,” Living…
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Nov 5 2022
There are a lot of fellowships where mutual-aid is available for almost every conceivable problem. Alcohol and other drug use disorders not a yes/no diagnosis anymore (eg: moderate, severe, chronic alcohol use disorder). Some people identify as having an alcohol…
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Aug 6 2022
The next era of 12-Step Recovery will see AA confronting our long period of—what I will call—being stuck. Predictably, what will follow will be to embrace innovation and the next generation of creative ways to express ourselves and to get…
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