More of me

Steve b

Meditations in the 12 steps

chris. AA SPEARKERS

Andrew Wommack you've already got it

Alcoholic walks into the room

Casting Crowns

step 1

access consciousness

when does the past become your fulure

You've Already Got It! Part 1

You've Already Got It! Part 2

You've Already Got It! Part 3

You've Already Got It! Part 4

You've Already Got It! Part 5

The Doctor's Opinion pg xxx "All these and many others have one symptom in common..." through  Bill's Story p6 "...and I did."

5 - Doctors Opinion & Bill's Story begins

What does abuse hold have to do with money, addictions, and getting out of old patterns?

Abuseholdclassfromcph

(www.accessconsciousness.com/creativeedgeofconsciousness)
Stability points are how you define what your reality is. It’s how you make you wrong. It’s how you make you right. It’s how you limit your money. It’s how you make sure you’ll be “ok” and be certain of the result you will get. What would be possible if you took off all the stability points and just flew?

What are stability points?

Susan and I discuss the 3 Biggest Lies People Create in Relationships and How to Change them.

Susan Lazar Hart On 3 Biggest Lies People Create In Relationships

Drop the rock sandy B

SOMETIMES YOU DO GET A SECOND CHANCE TO MAKE A FIRST IMPRESSION.

In which the S.O.S meeting Jeff and Chris set out to attend is not the S.O.S. meeting they find. Which then leads Jeff to facilitate Chris’ second attempt at attending an A.A. meeting.

Will he go in?

Will he stay?

Do they cast him out as an imposter?

Do they welcome him as a brother?

Is there coffee?

Find out in this week’s episode…


We also talk through Step 11. http://12step.org/the-12-steps/step-11.html


REFERENCED

Secular Organizations for Sobriety (S.O.S) / http://www.sossobriety.org/

Sisters of Sobriety (S.o.S) / How some women-only Alcoholics Anonymous meetings identify themselves. / https://www.google.com/#q=sisters+of+sobriety

Headspace / Meditation app /  https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app

Andrew Kukes Foundation for Social Anxiety / We didn’t actually mention this organization but it has a lot of good info / http://akfsa.org


IMAGE

Southington, Connecticut. A meeting / Charles Fenno Jacobs / 1942 / public domain via Library of Congress / http://loc.gov

MUSIC
https://soundcloud.com/djfmdotcom

Episode 13: Two Alcoholics Walk Into A Room

Chris goes to his second, Jeff takes someone else to their first and the 12th Step seems to have been the one that in one way or another got us each to our destinations.


Referenced

The 12th Step
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
http://12step.org/the-12-steps/step-12.html

Headspace / Meditation App
https://www.headspace.com

Centering Prayer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centering_prayer

Please visit: http://sincerightnow.com/pdcst for full show notes.

Episode 14: Meditations, Meetings & Steps

Waking Up the Ghost? I’ll let Marilyn explain:

“… the first time I heard that expression, I was sitting on a deserted island in the Exumas, with a jaundiced Bahamian named Sands. I think it is also the first time a Bahamian man has ever refused a free drink. What Sands meant, was that the icy beer I offered would lead to another, and another and another; it was safer to keep the Ghost in check by not drinking at all.”

A year and a half into her recovery Marilyn shares some insight on keeping the spirit(s) at bay.


Referenced

First Among Equals / Marilyn / Waking Up the Ghost
http://wakinguptheghost.com/first-among-equals/

Land of the Lotus Eaters
http://www.heritage-history.com/?c=read&author=langjean&book=odyssey&story=troyland

Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker

Alan Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking
http://www.allencarr.com

International Drinking Guidelines (Note: I had this wrong. It’s actually 1-2 drinks/day for women in much of the world.)
http://www.icap.org/table/Internationaldrinkingguidelines

2.5 Million Alcohol Related Deaths Worldwide — Annually
https://ncadd.org/in-the-news/155-25-million-alcohol-related-deaths-worldwide-annually


Image

Drinking Tea in the Blitz / photographer unknown / 1941 / via Retronaut


Music
DJ FM
https://soundcloud.com/djfmdotcom

Episode 16: Marilyn / Waking Up the Ghost

Animals and plants function from the present and the future, they don’t function from past. Listen in to how to open a door to a different reality and way of functioning. 
www.creativeedgeofconsciousness.com

When does the past become the sole choice for creation of your future?

Jeff & Chris talk about being sober during the Holidays.
Our new segment, 100% Volume by Alcoholics (with Marilyn Spiller of WakingUpTheGhost.com), has been postponed until a later episode.

Referenced

#addictionchat “Recovery-full Holidays” / @LEAFcouncil

Blackout Wednesday / Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_Wednesday

Q: Does alcohol cook off in food preparation? A: It’s complicated.
http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blalcohol12.htm

Zevia Sparkling Celebrations / Whole Foods
https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/shop/FFX/2369/15725

Manischewitz (makers of Manischewitz kosher wine) / Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manischewitz


Episode 19: Holidazed & Confused

Mark R On Step Three

Jay M On Step Three

Julie G On Step Five

"I will do this, someday...maybe" 
When you use resolve and resolutions you end up judging you. Here's a process to change this!
www.creativeedgeofconsciousness.com

End of Resolve, Beginning of Creation

Have you ever looked at friends your age and seen how much they've aged...then looked at your own body and began to make it age too?  If you don't buy that as your future, what would be possible?
www.creativeedgeofconsciousness.com

Perpetrating Aging on Your Body

What if you're not wrong, you're just extreme?
www.creativeedgeofconsciousness.com

Been Judging You for Being Too Extreme?

What if every belief you have creates constant judgment? How many beliefs are you using to create the wrongness of you?
www.creativeedgeofconsciousness.com

Believing in What's Right

Ep. 1502
Recover, Rewind, Review
Clean and Sober

In which Jeff, Matt and I discuss the 1988 Michael Keaton rehab/12 Step classic then finish with an extended discussion that covers the 12th Step, the 11th tradition and anonymity in recovery.


Referenced:
Atuk. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atuk) The screenwriter, Tod Carroll’s unfilmed, and supposedly cursed, script. It’s taken the lives of at least three well-known substance-abusing actors.

Jerry Stahl. Writer of both screwball, illegal alien sitcom, Alf (http://youtu.be/Eo5tBDXyQno)and his autobiographical story of his heroin addiction—and Ben Stiller tragicomic vehicle—Permanent Midnight. (http://youtu.be/LF5I7Tcrgq0)

All clips from the film Clean and Sober / 1988 / Warner Bros.
With the exception of “My name is John…” clip from Dear John (TV) / 1988 / CBS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_(U.S._TV_series))

Episode 1502: Recover Rewind Review / Clean and Sober

Perfection is antithetical to living; it deadens you and keeps you in judgment for the rest of your life. Perfection involves judging things as positive, which can lock you up even more than than the negative judgments. 

For more with Marilyn Bradford - https://www.marilynbradford.com/ 

or her Book, Right Recovery For You - https://bit.ly/3FF77t6

Positive Judgment and the Trap of Perfection

"Paul" is a recovering alcoholic, currently following a PhD into the neuromechanisms of addictive behaviours. His own experience of recovery, coupled with his research over several years, led him to question why the way addicts and alcoholics talk about their condition as an “emotional disease” is rarely addressed in theories of addiction.

Chris jacked into the Trans-Atlantic Interweb to chat with this fascinating Irishman about recovery, AA, emotional disregulation, the acceptance of prescribed medication in sobriety, and much more.

You may want to listen to this one more than once.

The Alcoholic's Guide to Alcoholism: http://alcoholicsguidetoalcoholism.com

Paul on Twitter: @DrunkenNeuron

Episode 1516: Paul Henry / The Alcoholic's Guide to Alcoholism

Discussion of the first step of AA: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

12 Steps AA Meeting

Recordings from the Saturday night speaker meeting of the 5th Tradition AA Group in Atlanta, GA.

Steve B Atl GA 6-23-12

Marilyn is an international speaker, psychotherapist and teacher who has worked in the field of addiction for over thirty years.

She is the creator of “Right Recovery For You”, a radical and unique approach to ending any addictive or compulsive behavior.

Marilyn's addictions to alcohol, food, and the wrongness of self, and her unwillingness to accept addiction as a life sentence led her to create this transformative and very different program.

Growing up in an academic family that stressed the supreme value of logic and the scientific method, 

Marilyn knew from an early age that she was not going to fit well in this world.
She was a square peg in a round hole. What others took for granted seemed insane to her. This was the beginning of the sense of fundamental wrongness of self that eventually led her to escape through food, alcohol and adapting to other people’s realities.

While searching for alternatives, she was introduced to Access Consciousness.
She found pragmatic tools and techniques to empower herself and others to move beyond limiting belief systems. Seeing the vast improvement in her psychotherapy/addiction clients that came from using these tools, she approached Gary Douglas, the founder of Access Consciousness, and together they founded “Right Recovery For You”.
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Now she travels the world offering others a chance for true freedom from addiction.

Positive Judgment and the Trap of Perfection

Right Recovery for You