Rebellion Dogs Radio
A contemporary look at addiction, recovery and mental health - less dogma, more bite. The author of Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life shares interviews with writers, artists, film-makers, treatment professionals and shares the latest research.
Episodes
28 episodes
Sober Love: Couples Getting Sober on Episode 77 with Dr. Joe Nowinski
Dr. Joe Nowinski's book ideas comes from working in the trenches, not from any ivory tower. Episode 77 of Rebellion Dogs Radio looks at a
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Season 5
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Episode 77
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1:00:10
Plain Language Big Book - AA's more comprehensible message
What’s Different?The first 164 pages are now 122 pages – by simplifying the language.More “gender-balanced” – e.g. jaywalker is female; but not gender-neutral using “they”.The wording of the Steps has not ch...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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46:54
The year ahead Episode 75 AAs new survey and new literature
We look at history—why? Isn’t this a contemporary, or even future gazing look at recovery and addiction? Well yes and yes. Yuval Noah Harari, PDH author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind says, “History is not the study o...
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Season 4
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Episode 75
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1:10:58
Retro Rebellion Dogs with Ep 19's Richard + Jack
From our Radio vault, Episode 19 features Richard, a Canadian Slam Poet, Comedian, pianist + Jack from LA, punk rocker, author, and recovering Big Book thumper. This show w...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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1:01:41
Bill Schaberg the sequal - 4 years after Writing the Big Book:The Creation of AA
It was the Fall of 2019, Writing the Big Book: The Creation of AA by William Schaberg was about to be published and Joe C sat down with the author to talk about the soon-to-be-unveiled book born of eleven years of primary documentary research o...
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Season 4
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Episode 76
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1:07:23
Replay Marc Lewis and Greta Vosper from 2015
Two Davids, facing two Goliaths of stubborn orthodoxy are the focus of Episode 17 of Rebellion Dogs Radio. One rebel is Mark Lewis, who challenges the disease model of addiction. Greta Vosper, atheist minister of the United Chur...
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Season 3
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Episode 75
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51:31
REPLAY Prof TRYSH TRAVIS, Episode 34 Women in AA
Trysh Travis, is Associate Dean at University of Florida. She oversees Women’s Studies, is a cultural and literary historian whose work looks at the gendered history of medicine and popular therapeutic cultures. While working as a high sc...
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Season 3
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Episode 74
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1:10:19
Replay Ep. 23 William B and Jackie B
William G. Borchert: September 9, 1933 - October 1, 2022 memorial will be on Zoom coming from Stepping Stones April 2 (first 1000 only) ZOOM 867 0807 3394 Passcode 1962 7—8:15 PM New York time (UTC –4) Who was Bill B? A New...
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Season 3
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Episode 23
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55:07
The Secret Diaries of Bill W with bob k
Bob K's new book is out - The Secret Diaries of Bill W In 1972 AA was learning to live sans-founder as Bill Wilson had been dead for a year. In...
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Season 3
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Episode 72
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1:07:20
Meet Michael, author of We Sober Agnostics (2023)
Michael is a professor, musician, journalist and author. Having just written a Living Sober-size booklet, Michael is our guest to make a case for AA for people, even if they are skeptical about the higher power stuff. He shares how in ...
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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1:12:06
Non-alcoholic trustee Mani Mehdikhani on what the 2020 AA membship survey tells us
Meet Clinical Psychologist at Greater Manchester West NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust, Mani Mehdikhani, one of AA Great Britain’s non-alcoholic trustees on their General Service Board. Among other duties, Mani and his committee ...
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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53:04
Modernity and Fundamentalism in 12 Step Culture Today
With or Without God: the latest Alcoholics Anonymous Membership Survey from Great Britain identifies how many members are religious vs. secular.Episode 69 of Rebellion Dogs Radio looks at our more enlightened understanding o...
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Season 2
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Episode 69
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1:27:11
Replay: Episode 41 Addiction & Recovery from Criminal Justice to Rock 'n' Roll (2019)
This blast from the past features two interviews by recovering alcoholics helping to overcome the stigma of addiction (and in some cases, addiction recovery) from the courtroom to the Rock 'n' Roll cabaret. First, we talk with author, l...
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Replay: Episode 32 Generational Divide (2017)
Thanks for listening to Rebellion Dogs Radio: A contemporary look at addiction, recovery and mental health, hopefully with less dogma and more bite!Douglas Coupland (author: Generation X) wrote, "The boomer generation is the one that unself...
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Season 2
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46:30
Carl Erik Fisher author of The Urge: Our History of Addiction
Rebellion Dog Radio EPISODE 68 features guest, Carl Erik Fisher. A Columbia University Psychiatrist, host of Flourishing After Addiction podcast, author of THE URGE: OUR HISTORY of ADDICTION, Carl Erik Fisher talks about his rese...
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Season 2
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Episode 68
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1:14:06
Replay: Episode 53 is a welcome letter to anyone new to secular Alcoholics Anonymous
This show was first published when secular AA was just growing into the digital new normal of Zoom AA. It was an experimental time and since February 2020, more new varieties of agnostic, atheist, freethinkers, irreligious AA meetings had sprun...
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Episode 53
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1:12:36
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Replay: Talking to Writing the Big Book author William Schaberg in the Fall of 2019
Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A. by William SchabergWe have to go back to 1979, the seminal scholarly account of early history, Not God: The History of Alcoholics Anonymous by Ernie Kurtz. It too...
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What a CONCEPT: AA and Public Controversy
Alcoholics Anonymous starts the year—January 1, 2022—in self-inflicted public controversy: "The way our ‘worthy’ alcoholics have sometimes tried to judge the ‘less worthy’ is, as we look back on it, rather comical. Imagine, if you c...
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Season 2
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Episode 67
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1:14:26
Episode 66 Blast from AAs past. Listen to the Jim B Memorial Gathering
Jim B was 36 years, two months, four days sober, an atheist, and one of the first few dozen to get sober in Alcoholics Anonymous when he died September 8th, 1974. Jim B outlived both “official” founders, Dr. Bob and Bill W.Listen here f...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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52:24
Religionless Spirituality with Ward Ewing on Rebellion Dogs Radio
“A person’s spirituality, then, is built on three internal processes: the way we perceive the world about us, how we feel about that world, and the choices w...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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1:14:43
Rebellion Dogs 56 Relatability and Accessibility of AA Literature
Alcoholics Anonymous prepares for the 2021 April General Service Conference. The program—at the time of writing—is now circulated, and Literature has a few items including a modification to Big Book text. There is a video accessible to members ...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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1:03:49
We Are Not All Egomaniacs Rebellion Dogs 64 with Beth Aich
Beth Aich has a bridge-building, gateway widening new book. We're Not All Egomaniacs: Adopting the Twelve Steps for Alcoholics with Low Self-Esteem busts the one-size-fits-all AA approach that assumes everyone in AA fits the narcissist...
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Season 7
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Episode 64
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55:12
Episode 63: Emotional Sobriety with Dr Allen Berger
Rebellion Dogs Radio # 63 features Dr. Allen Berger. Here is one of many gems from 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety: Getting Your Recovery Unstuck: “In our lives, emotional stability is achieved by becomi...
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Season 7
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Episode 63
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1:02:08
Recovery After Rehab: Dr Joe Nowinski on Episode 62
Joe Nowinski is back in Rebellion Dogs Radio sights as we think his new book satisfies a previously unmet need. Recovery After Rehab: A Guide for the Newly Sober and their Loved Ones is like the owners manual to your new sober life. "S...
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Season 7
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Episode 62
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1:04:35
Bigger than the Big Book? Are Zoom Meetings the single biggest breakthrough in Peer2Peer?
What will history record as the biggest game-changer in Peer 2 Peer support for people with alcohol and other substance use disorders? Was it a Big Book, or something bigger? Is the breakthrough in connecting the still sufferin...
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Season 7
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Episode 61
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1:11:32
