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 some of the traps about his personal journey and how observing thoughts, investigation and other cognitive behavioural theory practices (CBT) have helped him along his recovery journey. 

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 within AA, offering 100 agnostic/atheist/freethinkers AA meetings every day + regional events and the International Conference of Secular AA (ICSAA). More @ https://aasecular.org