Beyond Belief Sobriety

Beyond Belief Sobriety Podcast

The Beyond Belief Sobriety Podcast features stories of interest to people seeking a secular path to addiction recovery. We post episodes each week featuring a personal recovery story or an interview with an author or expert in addiction science. In addition to the audio podcast episodes posted here, we also live stream every Saturday at 11:00 am Central time. You can support our podcast by becoming a member of our YouTube Channel or a supporter on Patreon.

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Episode 240: We’re Not All Egomaniacs – Adapting The Twelve Steps for Alcoholics with Low Self-Esteem

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10/19/21 • 52 min

The book Alcoholics Anonymous written in 1939 describes alcoholics as power-driving egomaniacs who are self-centered in the extreme. The idea put forth in the book was that recovery from alcoholism would require crushing this oversized ego and learning to live with humility. This may have been an apt description of the less than 100 mostly [...]

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Episode 246: The Language of Recovery a Conversation with Dave G.

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12/29/21 • 40 min

Dave G. enjoys his sobriety. He runs, dances, and swims in the open sea. He gives back by talking at schools about his experience with addiction and recovery, and through his involvement in Toastmasters, he is working on improving his speaking skills even more. As we talked, I noticed a recurring theme throughout our conversation—language. [...]

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Episode 239: The Proactive Twelve Steps 6th Edition

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09/15/21 • 45 min

Serge Prengel is a therapist and life coach, and co-founder of the Integrative Focusing Therapy Online Training Program. He is also the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps: A mindful Program For Lasting Change. The sixth edition of the book was recently published and Serge visited with me to talk about what is new and why. [...]

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Episode 156: Deprogramming from Traditional AA

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03/15/20 • 55 min

John H. from the We Agnostics Group in Washington DC makes another appearance on the podcast to talk about deprogramming from AA. The word “deprogramming” may seem strong, but for those of us who have spent some time in traditional AA, didn’t we have to unlearn a few things? I know that I did, and [...]

Episode 9: Talking SMART with Steve Bergier

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01/24/16 • 56 min

Steve Bergier, a certified SMART Recovery Facilitator in Orange County, California was kind enough to not only submit a story to AA Beyond Belief, but also to spend his Sunday morning having a conversation with me about his experience with SMART Recovery. Steve isn’t an official spokesperson for SMART Recovery, so his comments during the podcast and his essay are [...]

Episode 223: Recovery Coaching with David Greer

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07/18/21 • 47 min

Meet David Greer, a successful business coach who also happens to be a person in long-term recovery. Seeing a connection between the two, and a need to meet, he added recovery coaching to his services. In this episode, we learn how he helps people in recovery identify and reach their recovery goals. Links to David’s [...]

Episode 60: Secular Ontario AA Roundup

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06/25/17 • 31 min

This week’s podcast features a conversation with Jack V., one of the organizers of the Secular Ontario AA Roundup or SOAAR. The event will take place on September 16, 2017 at the United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T1N1. Previous to this podcast, Steven V. wrote an article that was posted at AA [...]

Episode 64: We Agnostics and Freethinkers at the 2017 Florida State AA Convention

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09/03/17 • 61 min

Glenn G. a co-founder of the Beaches Agnostics AA group in Jacksonville, Florida hosted a workshop at the Florida State AA convention held in Jacksonville from July 27-30, 2017. The speakers included Ashley, who attends meetings at Beaches Agnostics and myself. Ashley and I shared a little of our stories and then spoke of experiences [...]

Episode 30: AA Freethinkers Secular Recovery in Japan | A Talk with Chris R.

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08/24/16 • 56 min

Chris grew up the son of an Anglican priest in a city in Saskatchewan originally founded as a temperance colony. At the time he started drinking as a teenager, there were a lot of legal restrictions with respect to alcohol—a legacy of the temperance movement. When he went to Japan in 1985 as an exchange student, he found a society that [...]

Episode 261: Dr. Daniel Hochman | Self Recovery

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04/06/22 • 53 min

Our guest for this episode has built a unique online addiction treatment program that features many modalities because – as we know – recovery isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. Dr. Daniel Hochman, a psychiatrist and founder of SelfRecovery.org, shares a platform that weaves together science, behavioral change and self-knowledge to sustain not only sobriety, but a [...]

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How many episodes does Beyond Belief Sobriety have?

Beyond Belief Sobriety currently has 299 episodes available.

What topics does Beyond Belief Sobriety cover?

The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Beyond Belief Sobriety?

The episode title 'Episode 239: The Proactive Twelve Steps 6th Edition' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Beyond Belief Sobriety?

The average episode length on Beyond Belief Sobriety is 48 minutes.

How often are episodes of Beyond Belief Sobriety released?

Episodes of Beyond Belief Sobriety are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Beyond Belief Sobriety?

The first episode of Beyond Belief Sobriety was released on Sep 14, 2015.

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