Mary C and Joe C in conversation with Dr. Adina Silvestri is what's on the menu for Episode 85 of Rebellion Dogs Radio. Some of the topics we discussed with Dr. Adina include the evolution of therapeutic modalities and what's on offer today for people with Mental Health or substance use concerns: Internal Family Systems (adopted from attachment theory), microdosing for enlightenment and breakthroughs, trauma and emotional impasses, hypnosis, sound bathing and more. In Adina's podc...

This is Episode 84 of Rebellion Dogs Radio. Mary C and Joe C welcome Jamie Marich, PhD as her latest collaborative effort is published: Queering EMDR Therapy. Dr. Jamie will read a poem of hers that is published in this latest book. We talk about the need for authenticity/integrity and its role in properly connecting in peer2peer, therapy and recovery, work, and community. We will look at this therapist/author's backlog of great books and her recent visits to ICSAA (Interna...

Episode 38 of Rebellion Dogs Radio includes this interview with author Leslie Jamison at a Toronto hotel for her book tour. The Recovering is part memoir and part history of the Americana writers, creators, their work and their struggles. Jamison’s 2024 latest Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story is also autobiographical, this time about love, parenthood and divorce. For our interview of this replay podcast (#38), Leslie had her beautiful baby in tow - a book tour during the realities of par...

Right now, we look ahead to 2024. Freethinkers in Orlando Alcoholics Anonymous are preparing to host the International Conference of Secular AA. This will mark ten years since our first International gathering of AA, for and by atheists and agnostics. This show is a replay of Episode IX - highlights of the first ever We Agnostics & Freethinkers International A.A. Conference from Santa Monica California, November 6th to 8th, 2014. Rebellion Dogs Radio # 9 includes segments from t...

A significant portion of this Rebellion Dogs Radio Episode 20 was the first interview we conducted with recovery friend/history lover, and writer Bob K, also known as Bobby Beach, originally aired in January 2016. It is with sadness that we share the news that Bob passed away at the age of 75 on August 12, 2025, in the early morning hours. This recording, the first of two on Rebellion Dogs Radio (the second being about his historical fiction called The Secret Diaries of Bill W. Th...

Rebellion Dogs Radio episode 83 broadcasts within the 90 years of AA in Vancouver, Canada, from July 3 to 6, 2025, at the International Convention. Because COVID-19 prevented the in-person 2020 Detroit I C from happening, it’s been ten years since we all met in Austin. Estimates put the attendance at 38,000 in Vancouver; others enjoyed 8 hours of hybrid “Language of the Heart” – the convention theme – by logging on privately or participating in watch parties with AA members at home gro...

The magical mystery tour of AA storytelling came to Atlanta in 2015, where 60,000 attendees at the International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous gathered from July 1st to 5th. “80 years – Happy, Joyous and Free” was the theme. Diggins, Big Mike, and Jeff Y spoke to 1,500 and 2,000 people at the We Agnostics Panel held at the Convention with three speakers. 2025's AA celebration will include a Secular AA Hospitality Suite, which you can find in your 2025 AA Vancouver program. W...

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, Canada, from July 2nd to 6th. There will be another We Agnostics Panel at 9:30 AM on Saturday, and also, "What is a secular AA format?" Friday afternoon and "One Big Tent" named after the Grapevine booklet of Atheist and Agnostic Experience, Strength an...

In 2000, Minneapolis featured the third rendition of non-believers at the quadrennial International convention of AA. In 1990 We Agnostics was part of the Seattle AA program. In 1995 We Agnostics was hosted by the San Diego AA World Convention; there has been such a panel every world convention since, in Toronto 2005, San Antonio 2010, Atlanta 2015. Detroit 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When posting this, there are less than 70 days to Vancouver 2025, The Language of ...

The AA World Convention is a quinquennial gathering to celebrate the anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. Since 1990, there has been a “We Agnostics Panel." At the time of posting, we are 80 days away from Vancouver 2025, July 3-6. AA World Convention with the theme “Language of the Heart.” 2025's AA celebration will include a Secular AA Hospitality Suite, which you can find in your 2025 AA Vancouver program. We are open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; come and visit. There will ...

Connection Hope Identity Meaning Empowerment These commonalities of most people who thrive (vs. cope) in recovery from addiction and mental health comes from the research of Mary Leamy, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Recovery and Staff Wellbeing, and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research programme, Kings College in London https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/mary.leamy A conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health: systematic review and narrative synthesis, DR MA...

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 run-of-the-mill problem in early recovery that doesn’t get enough ink: if we are together in a relationship and you go to treatment and come home to stay sober, should I live a sober life too? It’s your problem. Well, that’s one way to look at it; others would feel we are in this together. Here’s another case: a couple is together for a long time. Neither h...

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 changed from Him/His, but in other places,gender-balanced He/Him/His “may have changed to God”.Only “Dr. Bob’s Nightmare” is included in the stories (more on some problematic Doctor Bob language to follow).Plain language interpretation reduced 164 pages by 25%—a noteworthy reduction. How Bil...

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 of past; history is the study of change; it’s not about remembering the past; it’s about liberating ourselves from it.”Episode 75 of Rebellion Dogs Radio explores three calls to action by Alcoholics Anonymous that need our attention in 2024:1. ...

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 was recorded in the Fall of 2015. It is eight years later - both of these mavericks are doing their thing, in meetings and on stage. Visit our website for links if you connect with Jack, Richard, or both of these samples of recovery. I suspect that one or both are performing somewhere you could get to, or maybe in a meeting ...

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 on Rebellion Dogs Radio, Episode 49. Four years later, more has been revealed and new insights gained. So listeners asked, “When are you two going to sit down again for a podcast?” Here it is. This time around we look at new insights and...

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 Church of Canada, who at the time was facing a review of her peers who found her liberalism to be maybe too far to be called even progressive Christianity. Looking back in 2023, these heretical views of not so long ago are today's contemporary views or worldview and/or sub...

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 school teacher, she earned an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English, followed by a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of The Language of the Heart: Twelve-Step Recovery from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey (UNC Press,...

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 York newspaperman who got sober in the 1960s and would write some AA history including early AA + When Love is Not Enough, the story of Lois Wilson. Bill died in October 1922 and he is being honored by friends in recovery, so we are replaying this 2016 recording....

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 Episode 72 of Rebellion Dogs Radio, The Secret Diaries of Bill W by bob k bring him back for another lap around the track. We spend, well pretty much the whole episode talking about all kinds of things but mostly Bob K and Joe C talk about writing, this, Bob's new historical fiction, mostly but it's a fun chat that we welc...