SAFE RECOVERY

The preamble, The 12 traditions and Chapter 5 ...oh yea the web they weave. 

Not until I attended a Smart Recovery and and SOS meeting and began reading Orange Papers did I realize the lies that are read over and over again.  In doing my Make AA Safer Workshops , I began to hear the traditions in a new light.

We just came back from filming in louisville and arkansas with some new stories. 

Join host Monica Richardson for a 1 hour show.

Part 3 of our discussion on the great debate. It turns out that religious and spiritual are the same thing in many dictionaries all the way back in time to even 1935. 

Join host, Monica Richardson,  for a 1 hour epiosde as we wrap up this word that makes a probation officer feel okay to tell a person who got a DUI ticket to attend a "highly religious" lay person peer support, unregulated, unsafe group, where there also might be sex offenders and violent offenders waiting there to share thier spiriutality with you. Oh happy day! Doctors, Attorneys, Pilots and anyone with a license , it turns out is being bullied to go to AA. How and why did this get so deep and how can you fight back.

Join Terry from the blog, Orange Papers with host Monica Richardson for a  show from fall of 2013.  We will be back next week with another new show. Meanwhile we continue to travel and collect more stories from those who have been harmed from AA.

IN 1975 when I first encountered AA, most poeple tried to tell me, AA was more of a "take what you like and leave the rest" kinda thing.  What a bait and switch racket they had going on. In fact when I think back, many of the successful oldtimers, with rattling coins in their pockets and Cadillacs in the parking lots gave us that impression. Even those who were poor seemed to have something at stake to make me stay as an 18 or 21 year old...the years I doubted I belonged. But once they 13 stepped me, broke me down with their arm chair pop pschology and said I was hooked, they swiftly gave me positions that no 20 year old with 2 years of sobriety should have been given. I was DCM for Honolulu then, and then they made me PI for the State, sending me off to Lawyers Conferences to attract lawyers to AA...wow ...The facts are, AA's literature is filled with 500 or more crazy references to GOD sugar coated with higher power phrases and wacky "you must or you'll DIE!!!" Listen as we tear up and make fun of an entrenced monolithic sneaky baby cult, pretending to be a "fellowship".

Join Host Monica Richardson for an indepth One Hour Interview With Craft Coach- Cathy Taughinbaugh.

I’ve personally experienced the heartaches and hardships of substance abuse with my own children, and I understand what it takes to support long-term recovery for both of you.

You may be feeling overwhelmed by the chaos, confusion, fear and frustration of trying to deal with your child’s substance abuse. Know that life can change and things can get better.

I’ve dedicated my work to helping parents transform the anxiety and uncertainty they feel into clarity and peace of mind through personal coaching.

I’m a parent who has been in your shoes and know from the inside how hard this may be for you.

Certified Consultant in EMDR, EMDRIA, EMDR HAP, Certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis and an Accelerated Master Practitioner/Modeler of NLP. I present and train therapists internationally in working with addictions and dysfunctional behaviors. I also train and consult to therapist at Military bases on PTSD, Trauma and addictions. I developed the DeTUR protocol (Desensitization Triggers & Urge Reprocessing) for substance abuse and dysfunctional behaviors, and train and present on it internationally.

I am a train and consultant to military therapists internationally on how to work with the troops on issues of PTSD, addictions, and anger using EMDR psychotherapy and DeTUR..

Dr. Adi Jaffe holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Jaffe teaches courses at UCLA and California State University in Long Beach that address addiction specifically or biological psychology and behavioral neuroscience more generally.

Dr Jaffe is an addiction therapist that created and works at Alternatives in Los Angeles, CA.

Join Monica Richardson and Matt Leichter for a one hour show where will disect and discuss how religious AA really is and why they can not and should not court order anybody there.

Lance Dodes, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and was assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (retired). He has been the Director of the substance abuse treatment unit of Harvard’s McLean Hospital, Director of the Alcoholism Treatment Unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (now part of Massachusetts General Hospital) and Director of the Boston Center for Problem Gambling. He annually chairs the discussion group The Patient witih Addiction in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at the fall meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

I attended AA for 36 years. Abstinent. After I worked the steps in and out 3 times in a row ( over the years I did them over again as well) I found myself lacking and seeing "the steps" for what they were. Pretty useless and in many ways harmfull for a young teen like myself who was already good at blaming myself. At 4 years sober and 22 years old I began my quest for real help and answers. At first I read books like The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino, then I began doing outside spitiual healings which did help. I excercised regularly and I searched for truth. Still I suffered with great emotional pain that no one in AA had any answers for  and in fact made me feel worse at times. I will share and discuss the many paths, books, theraputic means I took that finaly got me to a place where I realized I had childhood trauma, I got help from a real PhD, I did rage work and then found out that I was NEVER BROKEN. Two shorts years after studing TM or Quantum Mediation, I left AA never to return and now know for myself that AA is a very dangerous , unhealthy, toxic, unsafe, religious type cultish thing. I am not calling it a "program or a fellowship or a support group" my expereince is proof that AA is very close to all the terms that would say it is a "cult"!