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Secular AA"s Podcast

International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous - atheists, freethinkers & agnostic in AA stories, panels, speakers, meetings... This is the podcast page for ICSAA recovery #addiction #recovery #atheism #freetinkers #ICSAA #secular #secularAA #alcohol #self-help #mutual-aid #irreligious #sobriety #sober curious

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ICSAA 2024 Long Timers' Panel

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2024/11/02

This is a Q&A panel with long timers in sobriety sharing their secular experience strength and hope, including Penny, Dale, Marty, Dennis, and Joe with Mary C as emcee.This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sunday 10:30 AM, September 22, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Mary C.Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoholics Anonymous and borrowed from the wider recovery community. Secular AA is a growing subculture ...

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77:33

ICSAA 2024 Broken Anonymity and Gossip

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2024/11/02

This workshop focused on the primary dangers of broken anonymity in 12 step fellowships. Topics include the dangers of privacy breaches and how this can expose individuals to judgment or harm from employers, family, or the public. This breach can deter participation, erode trust among members, and lead to legal or professional consequences for affected individuals. Additionally, it undermines the reputation of 12 step fellowships and its effectiveness by compromising the confidentia...

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78:36

ICSAA 2024 Working Under Cover (or Exposed!)

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2024/11/02

Many of us stay involved in "traditional" AA; in fact some of us only (or at least mainly) go to such meetings and are active in AA General service. Of these, some are "out there" as unbelievers, others not so much. Some see Secular AA as an attempt to evolve the culture of the fellowship we love from within rather than any kind of alternative. Many of us don't. Let's discuss tactics, war stories, experience and explore presuppositions and challenge them.This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sun...

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63:28

ICSAA 2024 We’re Not All Egomaniacs: Adapting the...

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2024/11/02

Beth Aich is the author of We're Not All Egomaniacs: Adapting the Twelve Steps for Alcoholics with Low Self-Esteem. Some of us come to Alcoholics Anonymous feeling terrible about ourselves and are told, bewilderingly, that our problem is too much ego and a lack of humility. Bill W. described himself as an egomaniac. He put his own needs and wants ahead of others, was grandiose, felt entitled, and thought he was all-powerful. He called this the alcoholic personality type and designed a program...

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78:25

ICSAA 2024 Relationships in Recovery: Platonic and...

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2024/11/02

Recovery from addiction significantly influences relationships, both romantic and platonic. No matter how we interact, relationships with others significantly impact our recovery. This panel will discuss how we engage with other people in recovery as well as dealing with interactions with other people who might not be in our recovery network.This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sunday 9:00 AM, September 22, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Chad C. and Stephanie F.Secular AA is AA sobriety that...

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40:33

ICSAA 2024 Cognitive Distortions with Glenn Rader

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2024/10/28

Glenn Rader is the author of Modern 12 Step Recovery: Updated Steps Support from Science and Psychology Practical Guidance. Today’s talk is about cognitive distortions, which are irrational and exaggerated ways of thinking common with anxiety, depression and substance use disorder, including alcoholism. In the rooms, we hear the term "stinking thinking." For Glenn, it's all the same. Dwelling on the negative, overgeneralizing, catastrophizing and black and white thinking, Glenn shares so...

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90:37

Secular AA Global Speaker Tour - We Agnostics of...

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2024/10/28

Traducción EspañolaSeptember 2024: Secular AA's monthly world-tour of speaker meetings is hosted by We Agnostics from Tempe, Arizona. Our speakers this month are:Andrew NGary SDiana E..with Beth H as emcee.Following these talks is sharing from around our agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA world. This is an open and welcoming meeting inviting others to share their thoughts about the speakers' shares and should be interesting for anyone, newcomer and long-timer alike (or just curious).Next ...

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75:55

ICSAA 2024 Gender, Sexuality, and Sobriety

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2024/10/22

In this panel, speakers discussed the dual themes of 'tolerance and diversity', as well as the experience of a person who identifies as a sexual and/or gender minority within AA. Attendees were invited to share their diverse experiences within AA.This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Saturday 9AM, September 21, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Chad C. and a panel of alcoholics.Secular AA is AA sobriety that is neither religious nor irreligious, focusing on the practical, humanist tools of Alcoh...

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71:05

ICSAA 2024 Emotional Sobriety in Relationships with...

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2024/10/11

Negotiating closeness and autonomy in a relationship, leaning into conflict and dealing with it--this is an introduction to Emotional Sobriety and Relationships with Dr. Allen Berger, clinical psychologist and author of 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety, day one of the 10th anniversary International Conference of Secular AA at the Double Tree Hilton Universal Studion Hotel in Orlando September 20th to 22nd, 2024Allen Berger website: https://abphd.com/The podcast: Emotional Sobriety...

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ICSAA 2024 Limitless Expansion through Practice of...

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2024/10/07

Last month (August 2024), JEB celebrated 46 years of sobriety, and he is a retired Licensed Professional Counselor. In an interactive session, we will explore what has been for JEB the most important part of Step 12 practicing the Steps as a program of living, applying what we first learn as we clean up the wreckage of our past. In Step Twelve of Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Bill wrote about this lifelong practice, “Here we begin to practice all the Steps in our daily lives so that we ...

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ICSAA 2024 Who is Hank Parkhurst?

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2024/10/07

"Who is Hank Parkhurst and his role in the founding of AA and why is he forgotten?"This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Saturday 10:30 AM, September 21, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, led by Geri B.The presentation slides can be found on www.aasecular.org/icsaa2024, direct link here.Secular AA is AA sobriety without the God-stuff, one of the fastest growing subcultures within Alcoholics Anonymous offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the Internationa...

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58:44

ICSAA 2024 Healing Our Relationships in Al-Anon

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2024/10/07

Alcoholism is a family disease. If you have been impacted by another person's drinking, Al-Anon is for you, whether that person is still drinking or not. Come share the experience, strength and hope of panel members, who each have different relationships with the disease of alcoholism: some as parent, adult child, or spouse of alcoholics, and some recovering alcoholics who are dual members of both Al Anon and AA.This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sunday 10:30 AM, September 22, 2024, in Orland...

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68:36

Secular AA's Biennial General Membership Meeting -...

Secular AA"s Podcast ·

2024/10/07

October 2024: This month's speaker tour is instead Secular AA's Biennial General Membership Meeting, held on Sunday October 6th, 2024. During this session, general membership votes were held on:the location of ICSAA 2026,nominated members to the Board of Secular AA,and ratification of Board-amended Bylaws.This is an open and welcoming meeting and should be interesting for anyone, newcomer and long-timer alike (or just curious).Next month's Secular AA Global Speaker Tour will be featuring "Bey...

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ICSAA 2024 Trauma & the 12 Steps with Dr. Jamie Marich

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2024/10/05

What a great talk by Dr. Jamie Marich based on her studies, practice and lived experience with addiction, recovery, the 12 Steps and Trauma. Hosted/introduced by Zanner, Jamie tells the ICSAA 2024 Orlando crowd that they had their Dr. Jamie Marich dress and PowerPoint professional presentation upstairs; after sitting through day one's chill-vibe, she thought that frayed gene shorts, a "Sober is Sexy" T-shirt and a talk from the heart was more in order. Not only is Dr. Jamie a recognized clini...

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ICSAA 2024 Penny M Saturday Keynote Speaker

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2024/10/05

Will-I-Am, chair of the Board of Secular AA, opens this keynote address and introduces Penny M., from Virginia, who found sobriety January 29th, 1968, at the age of 30. This recording was from the International Conference of Secular AA, Orlando, Florida, September 20th to 22nd, 2024, at the Universal Studios Hilton/Double Tree Hotel. Part of Alcoholics Anonymous, secular AA is a recognized special composition group catering to agnostics, atheists, and freethinkers. Our format is secular, and ...

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ICSAA 2024 CHIME & Recovery Science by Joe C

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2024/10/02

Friday September 20th: Keynote from the International Conference of Secular AA 2024 in Orlando...From research done and reported @ Rebellion Dogs Publishing, Joe C (Toronto Beyond Belief Agnostics & Freethinkers AA group) looks at the evolution of measuring efficacy of AA and other recovery from substance use disorder and a framework to measure recovery that comes from studies of people who thrive after mental health traumas and conditions - post-traumatic gains!! What does the latest dat...

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ICSAA 2024 Dr Trysh Travis AA in the age of Polarization

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2024/09/26

Trysh Travis is a professor of Women's Studies and History (U of Florida) who focuses on:gender popular cultures in the 20th-century United Statesthe culture of addiction and recovery. Dr. Travis writes, and blogs about self-help, "mental hygiene," and alcoholic equalitarianism, and her current project is tentatively titled "Feminists on Drugs: A History." Trysh has presented to AA History Lovers and been a guest on Rebellion Dogs Radio, talking about the history of women in AA. In ...

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ICSAA 2024 Loss, Change and Grief & the 12 Steps

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2024/09/25

the Journey With Love® with Dr. Noeréna https://thejourneywithlove.com/ from the International Conference of Secular AA, Sunday, September 22, 2024, Orlando, Florida, "12 Steps through loss, change and grief."This recording is from ICSAA 2024, Sunday 10:30 AM, September 22, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, as Rady of Westside Agnostics (Cleveland, OH) introduces fellow member Dr. Noeréna Abookire, PdD, for her talk on Twelve Stepping through Loss, Change and Grief, While Protecting Recove...

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ICSAA 2024 Zanner W from Sobriety to Recovery

Secular AA"s Podcast ·

2024/09/24

Welcome, this is the kick-off to the 2024 International Conference of Secular AA in Orlando, Florida, September 20-22 with Zanner W.Will-I-Am and Alcohol-Free Margarita offer opening comments and introduce Zanner W from Toronto, speaking about "from Sobriety to Recovery" followed by sharing. This is the tenth anniversary of ICSAA, with the first gathering of Atheists, Freethinkers and Agnostics in AA being in Santa Monica in 2014. Secular AA is AA sobriety without the God-stu...

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87:54

Secular AA Global Speaker Tour - We Agnostics of...

Secular AA"s Podcast ·

2024/09/07

September 2024: Secular AA's monthly world-tour of speaker meetings is hosted by We Agnostics from Tempe, Arizona. Our speakers this month are:Andrew NGary SDiana E..with Beth H as emcee.Following these talks is sharing from around our agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA world. This is an open and welcoming meeting inviting others to share their thoughts about the speakers' shares and should be interesting for anyone, newcomer and long-timer alike (or just curious).Next month Secular AA wi...

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