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Welcome to Rebellion Dogs Publishing: home to Rebellion Dogs Radio, Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life, and a community for freethinkers in recovery. The book, Beyond Belief available in eBook or paperback. Also, check out what we're reading and books we're talking about.

“Who are you? Who-who, who-who?” So far this month visitors come from 388 cities/towns. Our top visitors so far in July are: Edinburgh Scotland, Gibsons British Columbia, Chicago IL, Los Angeles CA, Manchester England, Montreal Quebec, Sand Diego CA. New York NY, Toronto Ontario, London. England, Dublin Ireland, Calgary Alberta. Thanks everyone for visiting.

Visit our links page, Rebellion Dogs Radio, Reading Room or Blog Page. Actually, visit as you see fit.

BEYOND BELIEF, "Paperback or eBook? But I just can't decide!"  We reward indecision - Get both, save money: $US 20.00 from Rebellion Dogs for both. Or, support your favorite online or brick-and-mortar booksellers. CLICK the PIC


Online secular AA meeting 16 hours per day from around the world, contemporary, irreligious 12-step books, podcasts and social media links - CLICK HERE 

A messaging crisis in AA? what crisis? We know that culture and innovation both foist a new way of talking about things; our language changes... AND at times, AA (who we are collectively) resists change. That said, if there was a long era of fundamentalism and craving closure and certainty, we see millennial stewardship gently taking chances, embracing vulnerability and bringing innovation back to ye olde peer2peer, Alcoholics Anonymous. Listen up and/or join the conversation; CLICK the PIC to get started.

NOW 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


 

 

 

 

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Recovery Speakers with Joe C

View the presentation slide deck seen at the meeting

Power Point: History of AA

Atheist and Agnostics by Joe C.

Note: it's hard to say every interesting fact about the troubles and triumphs of secular AA members. This is a work in progress; if you can add anything or correct anything, email us.

 

The Urge: Our History of Addiction - new Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode

Join in on a discussion with Columbia University's Carl Erik Fisher, podcast host, teacher, psychiatrist and someone who's been on both sides of the person with addiction meets with psychiatrist dynamic. Yeah, it's quite a story. And his search for answers were not satisfied by science and medicine alone. Come along on Carl's trip that visits history, art and philosophy of Episode 68 CLICK HERE

 

Goldilocks syndrome? Let's add this to our AA inventory taking.

January 24th, 1971, 51 years ago Bill W died. How would he have weighed in on this: Another AA central thinks it can kick out an AA meeting for being to "out there." I know, according to AA creed, central offices never rescind the rights of members and groups. The service structure serves--never governs--groups. But drunk-on-power rogue General Service Offices "servants" do drunk thinks: they act with impulsivity instead of thoughtfulness, they react to emotion and regret it later. As Bill W wrote about trusted servants acting in haste, and realizing our wrongs later, "...that we who condemn them are the Pharisees whose false righteousness does AA the deeper spiritual damage." So GSO (UK) booted out some Jesus freak AA's, removing them from the list for being too religious. That's right, just last decade, it was the secular AA groups being excommunicated for not being religious enough. That's Goldilocks Syndrome. Overreaching stewards want AA to be just right... not too hot, not too cold.

This GSO has AA in the news again with journalists having their way with our foolish ways. So we're looking at what happened, and what our play book (our AA Service Manual) says about inalienable rights are and how we can better deal with unpopular and peculiar groups of AA. Read/Listen or both to Episode 67

Rev. Ward B Ewing has been engaged with AA since 1975. As a class A trustee (non-alcoholic), he was voted to the AA General Service Board chair from 2009 - 2013. He has been a champion of inclusivity in AA. Ward's efforts to make AA a more welcoming place for atheists and agnostics got him invited to be one of our speakers at the International gathering of secular AA members in Santa Monica in 2014. He has a new book. Based on lessons learned in AA and the changing demographic of creed in America, Ward has written Twelve Steps to Religionless Spirituality: The Power of Spirituality with or without God (2021). Ward is our guest on Rebellion Dogs Radio. Rebellion Dogs Radio.

 

I suppose turn around is fair play, Allen Berger was a guest on Rebellion Dogs Radio and now Joe C visits Thom, Patrick and Allen as a fourth musketeer on Emotional Sobriety Podcast #22. iTunes - Spotify - Amazon Podcast or click the pic for Stitcher Pod page

The Beatles said, "All You Need is Love." Alcoholics Anonymous says, "Love and tolerance of others is our code." Check out [Revised 10/10/2021] our blog that takes a spot inventory of offering the same love and the same tolerance we want and expect. CLICK the PIC

 


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

We kicked off 2021 with... would y,ou call it "a bang"? This was January 1st to kick off the year with an explosive topic on Here's Tom With the Weather click to hear the January 1 show

 

Click the pic for audio of Our June 19th, EURO ICSAA meetings + more or follow this link for audio + commentary from the first virtual event of its kind International Conference of Secular AA December 5, 2020


For the one-on-one interview CLICK HERE for Rebellion Dogs Radio

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Joe C as a guest on other podcasts:

CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK to STREAM or DOWNLOAD episode 325 of Humanize Me - Bart Campolo of Humanize Me Podcast and Joe yackin' it up.

Share The Shair Podcast 138 to your heart's content. http://theshairpodcast.com/shair-138-atheists-agnostics-and-addiction-recovery-with-joe-c/

 

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ZOOM History of Atheists & Agnostics in AA

ZOOM History of Atheists & Agnostics in AA

Friday, August 19 @ 5:00PM — 6:30PM (EDT, UTC-04)Fri, Aug 19 @ 5:00PM — 6:30PM (EDT, UTC-04)

Growing in Understanding Group (London UK, 10 PM Friday), Zoom ID 838 6045 3157 passcode TOGROWIN, London UK (on Zoom)

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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Aug 6 2022

Crisis? What Crisis? Is AA stuck with our messaging?

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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Jul 30 2022

Agnostics and Atheists in AA - a brief history

Here are the slides and here is the audio for a talk by Joe C for the Recovery Speakers workshop on AA History

 

AUDIO CLICK HERE

SLIDES CLICK HERE

This 2022 presentation looks at atheist…

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Jul 15 2022

If you think you are different, AA Wants You (to be in the next Big Book)

Under other time-sensitive news, “This just in:” 

You may cherish the Big Book, AKA, our first text, Alcoholics Anonymous ...

Or you may set it aside as a conscientious objector on a variety of grounds ...

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May 30 2022

The other million sellers: AA World Services readings for atheists and agnostics

PRACTICAL AA (irreligious  readings and audio from Alcoholics Anonymous) 

Maybe it’s because of the name of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, that people associate the first written account of AA experience as “the basic text,” “the official AA program”…

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Feb 28 2022

Secular addiction/recovery Mutual Aid Groups

In recent blogs we have looked at what mutual-aid groups can do to support individuals who have or think they may have substance use disorder—alcohol (or other drugs). We have looked at the2020 Cochrane Library Review that explored how…

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Feb 28 2022

3 Common Challenges in Addiction Recovery

Addiction has a debilitating effect on human life. Physical health deteriorates but so do does financial, careers, personal, and professional capital as well. The nature of addiction (referred to by professionals as a disorder or disease) often keeps a vast…

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