Tom's AA Podcast

<p>An overview of key ideas in Chapter 4, We Agnostics.</p>

<p>This talk focuses on the very first paragraph of chapter 4, We Agnostics. A compact and useful definition of alcoholism is there. I talk about how to decide whether you have this disease.</p>

<p>This is a short talk about what the word 'agnostic' means and how it fits in AA's 12 steps.</p>

<p>More About Alcoholism, third chapter of AA's Big Book, explains why it is that alcoholics can't rely on self-knowledge to stay sober.</p>

<p>This podcast shows how to use part of Chapter 5 to better understand Unmanageability.</p>

<p>This short podcast focuses on the second half of the first step, unmanageability, and the Bedevilments found on page 52 of the Big Book.</p>

<p>This podcast focuses on how to find a conception of a Higher Power, aka God, suitable for a successful Step 2.</p>

<p>We dig into the Doctor’s Opinion from the AA Big Book and test its claims against our lived experience. We focus on physical craving, loss of control, and how to read the text line by line to see the truth without...

<p>We direct this podcast to those of us uncomfortable with the concept of God or anything that might be described as religious. (We'll get into the difference between "spiritual" and "religious" in later podcasts.)...

<p>This episode introduces the concept of powerlessness, why the first step is crucial, and why self-knowledge gets alcoholics drunk.</p>

<p>The focus of this short, six-minute audio only podcast is an introduction to why a person might choose to do the steps as outlined in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous.</p>

<p>This episode helps people start Step One regardless of their fellowship. For alcoholics, that will be pretty straightforward. For people in other fellowships, it's important to customize your first step to fit the...

<p>What is the mental obsession we talk about in 12-step programs? And why is it so all-fired important? This episode introduces the mental obsession and how Bill Wilson, the author of AA's Big Book, likely uses the...

<p>This episode introduces the concept. We sometimes call the physical craving and other times call the physical allergy in AA.</p>

<p>While "The Doctor's Opinion" seems a bit odd and dated, it contains valuable concepts. This is an introduction to The Doctor's Opinion and how you might go about using it in Step One.</p>