BILLWARDLIFE-CAST (formerly The UDRCast)

Bill welcomes you to the thirteenth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study. Bill finishes up Step 5 and gets into Step 6. He highlights the significance of humility and daily self-assessment and emphasize the necessity of discussing personal issues with God-centered, 12-step advisors, while noting that their approach is just one of many paths to recovery. Transitioning into Step 6, Bill underscores that willingness and rigorous honesty are key to spiritual growth and successful recovery. The discussion also covers the critical role of continuous willingness in achieving a profound psychic change.

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Bill welcomes you to the twelfth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! In this episode, Bill focuses on the significance and the detailed process of Step 5 from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We discuss the need for rigorous honesty, the role of past experiences in shaping current behaviors, and the importance of a good sponsor to identify patterns. Bill highlights various scenarios illustrating how untreated behaviors contribute to addiction and the importance of a thorough inventory for genuine self improvement. He talks about the value of humbling oneself and the transformation that follows a well-executed Step 5. Key elements discussed include continuous self-assessment, the role of God-centered guidance, and the long-term impact on personal relationships.

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Bill welcomes you to the eleventh episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! Bill continues to discuss Step 4 out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. This episode covers personal inventory, resentments, and fear in recovery. We talk about the importance of rigorous honesty, understanding the spiritual malady, and the practical steps to overcome these blockages through the Step 4 process. Bill also delves into his own personal experiences and spiritual insights, highlighting the role of God-centered 12-step pillars in the recovery process.

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Bill and Gord P welcome you to the tenth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord start on Step 4 at the bottom of page 63 out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We discuss the fact-finding and fact-facing inventory as laid out in the Big Book, how to write a Step 4, getting down to the causes and conditions of our addictions, and what resentments are and how we deal with them on paper.

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Bill and Gord P welcome you to the ninth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord finish up Step 3 and discuss the original manuscript of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We discuss how to quit playing God and trying to control people and situations around us, giving over our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand it and allowing God to be the director of our lives, and how amazing things happen when we take such a position. We also discuss the Step 3 prayer from page 63.

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Bill and Gord P welcome you to the eighth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! We discuss Step 3 out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in the Chapter How It Works. Bill and Gord explore how to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God as we understand him, how the real alcoholic has no effective defense against the first THINK, how the root of our troubles are actually of our own making (arising out of selfishness, self-centeredness run riot) and how a Higher Power can help us with this root problem.

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Bill welcomes author, filmmaker and recovery activist Kerry Gladue to the “Social Impact” series. Kerry discuses: growing up in foster care, the history and effect of intergenerational trauma and residential schools on his family; entering recovery in his early 40s and starting new; and his book titled “Second Chances.”

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Bill and Gord P welcome you to the seventh episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! We continue working on Step 2 out of the Chapter We Agnostics in the Big Book and discuss: opening the door to the belief in a higher power just a little bit; throwing out old ideas that don’t work for a set of new ideas that do work; the bedevilments; and how belief can come from seeing it work for others in the program.

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Bill and Gord P welcome you to the sixth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! In this episode, we start with a short share of experience, strength and hope from Katie. Bill and Gord then discuss the chapter We Agnostics from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous including: Step 2, getting rid of old ideas that we not working for us in favour of a set of new ideas that could work for us, and moving from a life centered on self to a life centered on a higher power.

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Bill welcomes his good friend and Executive Director of Oxford House Earl T to the UDRCAST. Earl discusses: his work in treatment houses; his own experience of alcoholism, homelessness and entering treatment; the importance of connecting with his Indigenous culture in recovery; and how he dedicates his life to service today.

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