Since Right Now

SPECIAL EPISODE

Three dudes in a car on the way back to STL from Akron talking about their experience at Founders' Day on the 80th Anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Cover:

Henrietta Buckler Sieberling / Akron Women's History / https://blogs.uakron.edu/womenshistory/2013/09/11/henrietta-buckler-seiberling-1888-1979/

WIN A COPY OF SOBRIETY: A GRAPHIC NOVEL

Leave a comment or review on SoundCloud or iTunes between June 11 and June 29, 2015 for a chance to win 1 of 2 copies we're giving away. Drawing on June 29th, 2015.

____________________________________________

It's been a long time coming but it was well-worth the wait. We chat with the ebullient author of our favorite graphic novel about sobriety, Dan "The Story Man" Maurer.

Read an excerpt here: http://www.sincerightnow.com/sobriety-a-graphic-novel

Visit Dan @ http://www.danthestoryman.com

Twitter: @danthestoryman

Los Caballeros de Recovery tuvieron una conversación encantadora con la Sober Señorita. ¡Escucha ahora!

Referenced:

Anonymity in AA and the Age of the Internet / http://sobersenorita.com/2015/05/21/anonymity-in-aa-and-the-age-of-the-internet/

5 Reasons You Should Go to That AA Meeting You’ve Been Thinking About / http://www.ihavewill.com/5-reasons-you-should-go-to-that-aa-meeting-youve-been-thinking-about/

6 Things I Learned During Two Years Without Alcohol / http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-fitzgerald/6-things-i-learned-during-two-years-without-alcohol_b_7235048.html

Cinco De Mayo: Yet Another Drinking ‘Holiday’ / http://www.addiction.com/expert-blogs/cinco-de-mayo-yet-another-drinking-holiday/

Founders' Day 2015 / https://foundersdayregistration.akronaa.org

AA Int'l Convention / http://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/2015-international-convention-of-alcoholics-anonymous

Unite to Face Addiction / http://www.facingaddiction.org

> Find Kelly @ http://sobersenorita.com

Whence the AA hate? Recovery is a spectrum with highly-personal stories along it's length. Why must one person's experience necessarily be another's.

Even as a #nonAnon Chris doesn't get the AA haters.

Referenced:

@DrunkenNeuron / The Alcoholic's Guide to Alcoholism / http://alcoholicsguidetoalcoholism.com

@Rebellion_Dogs / Rebellion Dogs Publishing / http://rebelliondogspublishing.com

@mylaststand_org / My Beef With #AA / http://mylaststand.org/post/98318610222/my-beef-with-aa

@wearesober / What AA Taught Me: Musings from A Non-AAer / http://www.thesobrietycollective.com/blog/2015/5/what-aa-taught-me

KLĒN + SŌBR on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/KLENandSOBR

Since Right Now Audience Survey / http://www.podtrac.com/audience/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BmiKe4TJqGkG&ver=standard

Shot Out of A (Water) Cannon.

Wes is quite literally a man on a mission. Just 10 months sober, he's working with a fervor to carry the message while he carries (his) water to the recovery community and beyond.

"It's not because we're so f*cking cool. It's because this epidemic is so f*cking huge." —Wes Hurt

CLEAN Cause Water / http://cleancause.com

Sobriety does not inoculate us against the trials and tribulations of life. We use the idea of "Maintaining long-term sobriety through life-altering challenges & changes" as our guide through this episode.

Referenced:

The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling & the Search for Meaning / Kurtz & Ketcham / 1992 / http://www.amazon.com/The-Spirituality-Imperfection-Storytelling-Meaning/dp/0553371320

Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous / E. Kurtz / 1991 / http://www.amazon.com/Not-God-History-Alcoholics-Anonymous/dp/0894860658/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_y

Rewired: A Bold New Approach To Addiction and Recovery / E. Spiegelman / 2015 / http://www.amazon.com/Rewired-Bold-Approach-Addiction-Recovery/dp/1578265657

The Velveteen Rabbit / Williams & Nicholson / 1958 / http://www.amazon.com/Velveteen-Rabbit-Margery-Williams/dp/0385077254/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431641759&sr=1-1&keywords=the+velveteen+rabbit

NOTE: Joe's audio quality sounded like he was in a wind tunnel. I tried to fix it but couldn't. It does get a bit better about 9 minutes in when I manage to separate it from Jeff and my audio. You're welcome.

"Paul" is a recovering alcoholic, currently following a PhD into the neuromechanisms of addictive behaviours. His own experience of recovery, coupled with his research over several years, led him to question why the way addicts and alcoholics talk about their condition as an “emotional disease” is rarely addressed in theories of addiction.

Chris jacked into the Trans-Atlantic Interweb to chat with this fascinating Irishman about recovery, AA, emotional disregulation, the acceptance of prescribed medication in sobriety, and much more.

You may want to listen to this one more than once.

The Alcoholic's Guide to Alcoholism: http://alcoholicsguidetoalcoholism.com

Paul on Twitter: @DrunkenNeuron

Jeff, Matt and Chris have all spent rather lengthy segments of their respective careers creating advertising and promotions for alcohol. We've worked on beers and spirits major and minor. We've done it together, separately and in pairs at a variety of agencies. We finally sit down together and talk about how, as three sober dudes, we feel about it. Then and since right now.

Flatulence, Opioids & Abraham Lincoln. One of these things is not like the other.

100Pedals.com / Dave Cooke

Opioid Misuse In Chronic Pain Patients Is Around 25% / Forbes / http://www.forbes.com/sites/cjarlotta/2015/04/01/opioid-misuse-in-chronic-pain-patients-is-around-25-new-study-shows/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=social

Kids allowed sips of alcohol are more likely to drink in high school / CNN / http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/31/living/feat-sipping-alcohol-kids-drinking-impact-parents/

James Frey / Wikipedia / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey

SRN Pod Survey / http://www.podtrac.com/audience/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BmiKe4TJqGkG&ver=standard

Clips: Confessions of an Opium Eater f. Vincent Price / 1962 / IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055864/

We had an absolutely terrific chat with Magz, Chris shares the bit of familial closure he got this past week and we tease Episode 1515. A Very Special Episode.

Be sure to visit Magz @ SoberCourage.com