SAFE RECOVERY

This is a previously recorded show. Enjoy! See you "live" next week. This is a one hour show with Terry who founded Orange Papers. This is an excelleant blog to read if you are deprogramming from any 12 step program. If you are still in AA and wondering why AA doesnt just feel right anymore, you may want to read this blog. With many archival letters from Bill Wilson, Marty Mann,

Join Monica Richardson for a 1 hour show with a pilot who is fighting back. All across America - professionals are being forced to go to AA meetings. Some against their will. Some are made to even believe in the ideology of the 12th Step program. A violation of Civil RIghts - Pilots, Nurses and Doctors are fighting back.

Join host Monica Richardson for a "live" conversation on what it is like after leaving AA. This is an opportiniuty for callers to call in and ask questions or make comments. Some of us stayed for years while others left after 9 months. Some people never bought into all the brainwashing , while others dove head in. Which one where you?  DID you grow up in an AA household, where you coerced by the courts or did family make you go to rehab and then rehab sent you to AA? So many ways poeple get there. BUT know one thing, There are 6 free other options and even a good book and a good non 12 step addiction therapist may be what one needs. SMART Recovery, SOS, HAMS Harm Reduction, MM, Moderation Management, LIFERING, WFS, The Sinclair Method, and finding a good non12 step therapist along with a good book like Recover!

Have you ever been ripped off by an AA member?  Was it alot of money? Was it for hundreds, thousands or millions.  When you asked for your money back  were told to

        " go write about it" . "pray about it" 

One oldtimer in a men's stagg in Hollywood, has been doing this and getting away with it for years. We suggest you go to the police and prosecute them.  SO why don't you? Listen for a 30 minute show on Financial predatory criminal behavior  in AA. We will take calls. PLease report all crimes to the police.

Holly Whitaker is a writer and speaker,and blogs on her own site, hipsobriety. 

Holly is a former healthcare exec who found her path to sobriety both outside of AA and the 12-steps and the healthcare system. Her mission is to create inspire empowering, holistic, modern, and above ground paths to recovery from addiction, and to remove the stigma, misinformation, and fear that surrounds the predominant methods to recovery that exist today. Join host Monica Richardson and Holly Whitaker for a 1 hour in depth show about new approaches to gettinghelp with drinking and drug over use issues.

Today is a short episode to discuss why so many poeple think and say " AA is spiritual, not religious". From 50 somethings at a party, to parole officers, to girl on the street on the promenode. In the making of my film The 13th Step I dug deep to uncover why I too said this too many times. I found out that this is not true and a very important part of the whole bad picture. AA is being used in our courts, against our 1st amendment rights, its being forced on Pilots and Doctors and Nurses. Even men and women who have served their time are being told they MUST go to a 12 step based rehabilitation when they leave prison. Yes...this is true....WHo is making all the money here. ...

If over drinking is a behavior and or a sign of mental illnesses why would we use prayer to fix or heal these issues. And if it were a disease, which I dont beleive it is, why again would I "pray about it" and not go see a PhD or A Dr? Join me today for a 30 minute show.

DId you feel like you were in a cult when you left? Why would we say that? Did you have to make all new friends? Were you ostricized when you left?  Is AA religious? Yes. Why would our courts send you there then? Is AA a government agency? NO. Is AA run by professionals? No. Does AA have safety policies in place?  NO.  IN fact, they voted no to making Safety polices when insider Paul C wrote his 7 page letter to the AA General Service Board.

Join us for a 1 hour show where bloggers can call in and tell their stories with host Monica Richardson.

Many bloggers are talking about this. FInd us on www.leavingaa.com . Deprogramming before one embibes again. Some prefer never to drink again attitude. Many do drink normally again after many years of abstinance. Many AA circuit speakers have left and are finding they can drink easily with no probelm.  Which one are you? We are going to do a live chat so you can talk about it in the chat room. I will take calls and questions and comments. Why do so many leave AA after decades and feel they were in a cult. Monica Richardson hosts this 1 hour live show to talk about the Holidays, Leaving AA, moderation, and learning new healthy habits.

We will talk about the best deprogramming books we have read and the best moderation books out there. Drink Link Moderation by Donna Cornett, Take Control Now by Dr Marc Kern, Ken Anderson's Hams Harm Reduction. Lance Dodes books, The Sober Truth. Stanton Peele and Ilse Thompson's book Recover!  If you like the show Safe Recovery, please go to itunes and review my show. Thank you all and Happy Holidays!

Join Monica Richardson and Barry Hazle and his lawyer, John Heller for a 1 hour "live " show to talk about this 7 year fight. They won!!! We are so excited to have Barry and John join us to tell a very important 1st Amendment Rights  case.

Jeff Foote from CMC in NYC opens a non 12 step rehab in upstate NY. Join Host Monica Richardson for a 1 hour show. Dr. Foote is a nationally recognized clinical research scientist who has received extensive federal grant funding for his work on motivational treatment approaches. Dr. Foote has worked in the addiction treatment field as a clinician and researcher since the late 1980’s, and has developed a unique motivational treatment approach that incorporates principles of group treatment as well as research-based principles of human behavior change. Previously, Dr. Foote was the Deputy Director of the Division of Alcohol Treatment and Research at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NYC, as well as a Senior Research Associate at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) in NYC. Dr. Foote also served as Chief of the Smithers Addiction Treatment and Research Center as well as Director of Evaluation and Research between 1994 and 2001.