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| 03/15/07 |  |  |
The truth shall set you free, as they say. Today Dan talks about denial
and how it can keep an alcoholic from recovering and healing. Drawing
once again from his own life experiences, Dan shows how being in a
state of denial about some problem in your life will slowly lead to
nothing but trouble and take away your sobriety.
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| 03/13/07 | | |
The subject of Episode 37 is the first month of sobriety. Dan talks
about what recovering alcoholics can expect in the early days of
sobriety in terms of health, lifestyle, state of mind, etc. as well as
what to expect from AA meetings at the beginning. The show finishes up
with a list of listener milestones. We'd like to mention your milestone
online and maybe interview you for the show. Please visit us online at
aajustfortoday.org for more information on how you can be on the show.
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| 03/09/07 | | |
Today Dan talks to eight-year AA veteral Suzzane R. Originally a child of
an alcoholic Suzzane had early exposure to AA with ten years of
Alanon experience. She talks about her early drinking days in school
including playing in a rock band and going to keg parties from the age
of 16 to 20 even getting to the point of taking a quick drink before
school each day. Later in life she went through the usual issues such
as losing jobs and a broken engagement. Suzzane stopped drinking eight
years ago at the age of 31.
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| 03/07/07 | | |
This is the last in series of interviews with AA historian Dick B.
Having suffered from depression well into the fifties, Dick says that
Bill Wilson began to venture into the worlds of spiritualism and
psychedelic drug use including LSD. As Dick's story winds up, Doctor
Bob agrees to the incorporation of the 12 Traditions into the fabric of
Alcoholics Anonymous for among other reasons to assure the ongoing work
of AA after Bill and Bob were gone. Dick talks more about the original
tenets of the Oxford Group and the Akron group and how they have
evolved though various revisions to become what AA is today and he
talks about his feeling that the Biblical roots of AA have been watered
down to appeal to a larger audience. DICK B. BOOKS.
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| 03/06/07 | | |
Anita S. is interviewed in this segment of AA Just For Today. She
discusses with Dan her drinking problems as a young adult in college,
suicide attempts, and a marriage, and then her sixteen years of
sobriety. She and Dan talk at length about how surrender to a higher
power is necessary not only at the beginning of the road to sobriety,
but along the way as well. Anita also talks about how when you are
ready for a teacher, the teacher appears, meaning that until you are
ready to surrender to solutions outside of yourself, you cannot see
those solutions even though they may be right in front of your face.
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| 03/05/07 | | |
A disappointing first release of the Big Book and religious differences
are shaping the future of AA and other programs at the turn of the
decade in 1939. At that time a man named Clarence Snyder comes into the
picture, solidifies the various camps somewhat and achieves a period of
strong growth for Alcoholics Anonymous. Even still, Dick says, Bill W.
spends the next decade in depression. Dick also mentions "The Four
Absolutes," early developed principles of AA. (Please note that Dick
has broken his lecture into 5 Parts. These parts do not correspond to
our show titles.) DICK B. BOOKS.
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| 03/02/07 | | |
Dick B. gets into the turbulent times that surrounded the formation of
AA in the late thirties with tales of Nazis, communism, the Bible, the
draft, Rockefeller, and the Salvation Army. He also lays out a
fascinating seven point synopsis of the principles of Alcoholics
Anonymous penned at that time by Dr. Bob and Bill Wilson, et al. Dick
also draws connections between Bill's incorporation of AA, the
evolution of the Big Book, and the omitting of the religious rituals
used by other groups. (Please note that Dick has broken his lecture
into 5 Parts. These parts do not correspond to our show titles.) DICK B. BOOKS.
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| 03/01/07 | | |
Dan gets personal today and shares some of his own challenges. Having
gone through a a period of being in a sub-standard mood, he can share
first hand how things can build up and send you down the wrong path a
little at a time until you suddenly realize you've lost your way and
you sobriety - that is if you don't realize what's happening before
it's too late like Dan did. The message is this: When life seems to be
giving you grief that's the time to take a hard look at yourself and
see that you are probably not accepting and trying to change things you
cannot change. The resistance life gives you should tell you something.
You're swimming against the tide. Turn around.
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| 02/28/07 | | |
Today Dan talks about celebrities who have succumbed to alcoholism or
drug addiction or both. He points out that not only are these so-called
successful people unhappy due to not dealing with life on sober terms,
but that many have had their lives cut tragically short as a result of
their addictions. Dan also talks about how alcoholism can take the
lives of innocent people as well your own. Dan also gives instructions
for anyone who would like to call in and be interviewed on the show.
(Interviews are not broadcast live.)
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| 02/27/07 | | |
Dan begins this section of his interview with AA historian Dick B. by
telling Dick how putting his fate in the hands of a higher power
transformed his life. Dick then continues his lecture on the early
history of Alcoholics Anonymous and explains how Doctor Bob and Bill W.
came together and how the spark of a sobriety program was ignited based
on the experiences which he talked about in the previous episodes. DICK B. BOOKS.
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