AA secular members

07/18/2025

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Emotional Sobriety back-2-back...

"I have discovered something more important to me than happiness: self-respect.

Even on a bad day, a day when I am far from being my own biggest fan, my integrity can remain intact. That is the ultimate measure of myself, at the end of a day, and ultimately at the end of my life.

It's not about what happens to me; it is always about how I respond. It's not about how I am treated; it's about what I choose to do with whatever that is. - Thom Rutledge

Visit https://growinginunderstandinggroup.com/ for two weeks, Friday on Zoom @ 5 PM Eastern (2 PM Pacific, 10 PM IE/UK, 11 PM Central Europe, 7 AM Saturday AEST), JULY 18th, JULY 25th (90 minutes). I may have spent more time as a guest on the Emotional Sobriety Podcast than on our own Rebellion Dogs Radio, so far this year. So let's turn the tables...
On the 18th, Joe C holds court with podcast-pilot, Patrick Newman & Best-selling author, psychotherapist, Thom Rutledge

Friday at 5 PM Eastern (2 PM Pacific, 10 PM IE/UK, 11 PM Central Europe, 7 AM Saturday AEST) on July 18th and July 25th (90 minutes).
On July 25th, Joe C of Rebellion Dogs Publishing and Allen Berger, author of 12 Essential Insights into Emotional Sobriety and we'll talk about the book and what's been learned since, through workshops, a weekly Thursday Zoom meeting and Allen's daily practice and observations.

Hope you can join us :-)

06/18/2025

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stream or download some of the great We Agnostics through the years: 1990 Seattle, 1995 San Diego, 2000 Minneapolis, 2015 Atlanta
If you're in Vancouver July 2-6, 2025 visit the hospitality suite for the International Conference of Secular AA, in the Fairmount Vancouver from Thursday until Saturday night.

06/18/2025

Who's going? International Conference of Secular AA hospitality suite open at Vanocuver 2025 Thursday through Saturday.

2025 A.A. International Convention in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

06/14/2025

Wilson, the daughter of 82-year-old Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson, is vocal about her sobriety journey and hasn’t drank alcohol in...

06/14/2025

This recording is the first-ever "We Agnostics" panel at AA's International Convention, held in Seattle to celebrate 55 years of AA in 1990.At the time of recording, we are a couple of weeks from the 90th Anniversary of AA, held in Vancouver, Cana...

05/12/2025

Do you have AA’s The Meeting App?
The world convention Vancouver (July 3-6) program is available under “News”
It includes a list of hospitality suites and so much more.
ICSAA (Secular AA) is @ The Fairmount. Note that there is also a “Waterfront Fairmount” which will surely create some confusion among the 35,000 on hand.
AA secular members Friends of Bill W. & Dr. Bob The Secular Recovery Group

05/04/2025

less than 60 days to go to Vancouver 2025 Language of the Heart, July 3-6. Check your program for:
Secular AA hospitality Suite (International Conference of Secular AA)
3 Pannels: Starting a Secular AA meeting (Friday Afternoon), We Agnostics (Saturday 9:30 AM), One Big Tent (Saturday 3 PM)
listen to previous We Agnostics pannels from Rebellion Dogs Publishing

The AA World Convention is a quinquennial (every five years) gathering from different cities that of different towns. The San Diego AA International Con...

05/01/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BwFdyjFFY/ Twelve Steps, Emotional Sobrety and a secular AA approach

Joe C. of Rebellion Dogs Publishing and Secular AA joins the roundtable to discuss Step Three: "Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the ca...

03/15/2025

St the Ontario Regional Conference (Toronto), we host a Freethinkers beginner’s meeting at 7 PM Saturday

03/03/2025

"A newcomer walks into an AA meeting somewhere in America..."

It sounds like the start of a good joke. But think about this when you read the March Blog about Atheists in the Closet in 12-step meetings.
https://bit.ly/RebellionDogsMarchBlog

According to a recent poll, American worldviews are changing. Maybe it's just about knowing how to ask questions to get accurate answers. But Gallup has asked a question that in so many ways asks who believes in a 12-Step prayer-answering, life-changing God?

It turns out, less than 1/2 of Americans believe in such a Guy in the Sky. So do only the 42% who do believe in such a thing stay in AA or are most of us going along to get along? And if most AA's don't really take that Bill Wilson idea seriously or literally, why we keep talking about as if that's how we are all getting sober?

Kate Cohen's book WE OF LITTLE FAITH: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should Too) talks about "going from lying to telling the truth, pretending to not pretending."

Atheists in the closet! Come out, come out, wherever you are. This blog, part 1, looks at some science and some good books, and we hope others will weigh in. It's quite a wake-up call. Scroll below and look at this poll.

https://bit.ly/RebellionDogsMarchBlog

AA secular members Atheists in Recovery Many Paths To Sobriety NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals CAMH Foundation Beyond Belief Sobriety

03/01/2025

01/17/2025

Thriving instead of surviving trauma or addiction-a discussion about those who do

Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholic's Anonymous, wrote in 1952,