DRY JANUARY (and every month) Part II—This Blog’s for you (sounds like a beer commercial !?!?!), if you are either test-driving abstinence or if you have devoted yourself to being clean and sober as a new way of life. Just…

Dry January: a history of assessing alcohol use disorder 

Rebellion Dogs January 2024 

click to Read or download a PDF: Dry January - making exploring our drinking habits hip

In mid-1970s Montreal AA, almost every Alcoholics Anonymous group literature table…

CHECK OUT 3rd PRINTING 10th anniversary BEYOND BELIEF.

READ OR DOWNLOAD OCTOBER 2023 BLOG IN PDF FORMAT

What a decade we’re having! 

Maybe you are new around these parts—welcome. 

Maybe you remember January 2013—thanks for sticking around. 

Ten years ago, …

Napoleon are so similar. That doesn’t mean one plagiarized another; it’s the kind of story enough people THE SECRET BOOKSHELF: Influences on AA’s creator that no one is talking about … until now. 

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First of all,…

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? 

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Inspired am I, by the March 2023 AA…

Oh Canada! Less people do spiritual stuff, like praying or turning to AA for help. 

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The 2021 Canada census data shows a transitioning diversity in our neighborhood (culturally/racially diverse Canada) and…

Can we end of pessimism in 2023?

Expectations lag behind outcome rates of recovery from addiction                     

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Shake any family tree and one or two drunks fall out of it; that…

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…

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…

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…

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

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SLIDES CLICK HERE

This 2022 presentation looks at atheist…

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 ...

But now is…

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”…

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…

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…