61: Alcoholism Awareness Month: Where to Find Help + AA 12-Step Concepts That Will Help Anyone Right Now
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
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Summary
Alcohol Awareness Month is a public health program organized by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence as a way of increasing outreach and education regarding the dangers of alcoholism and issues related to alcohol. The program was started in April 1987 with the intention of targeting college-aged students who might be drinking too much as part of their newfound freedom. It has since become a national movement to draw more attention to the causes and effects of alcoholism as well as how to help families and communities deal with drinking problems. Since Neil and I are well acquainted with the 12 steps of recovery, and especially since Neil began his recovery journey in a traditional 12 step non-denominational meeting founded on the principles of AA, we decided this month we would share some of the basic concepts behind Alcoholics Anonymous, especially since right now in isolation so many people are suffering with their addictions or realizing they might have a problem that they need help with. We really believe this topic will reach everyone at some point in some capacity, whether you yourself struggle with addiction or someone you love does. We hope that today’s episode sheds light on an issue that’s sometimes hard to find solid solutions with, and that if you know someone who might be struggling that you’ll share it with them.
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Show Notes:
Neil’s favorite talk on taking it “one day at a time”.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/d-todd-christofferson/give-us-this-day-our-daily-bread/
Find a local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/find-aa-resources
Find an ARP meeting (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Addiction Recovery Program)
https://addictionrecovery.churchofjesuschrist.org/find-a-meeting?lang=eng
Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) meetings https://www.sa.org/meetings/
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meetings https://oa.org/find-a-meeting/?type=0
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings https://www.na.org/meetingsearch/
Fox news article on relapse due to coronavirus isolation. Some solutions on what to do.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-poses-risk-relapse-among-individuals-recovery-expert-says
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| 0:00.0 | Alcohol Awareness Month is a public health program organized by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence as a way of increasing outreach and education regarding the dangers of alcoholism and issues related to alcohol. |
| 0:13.6 | The program was started in April of 1987 with the intention of targeting college-age students who might be drinking too much as a part of their newfound freedom. |
| 0:22.5 | It has since become a national movement to draw more attention to the causes and effects of alcoholism, |
| 0:27.6 | as well as how to help families and communities deal with drinking problems. |
| 0:32.1 | Since Neil and I are well acquainted with the 12 steps of recovery, |
| 0:35.1 | and especially since Neil began his recovery journey |
| 0:37.6 | in a traditional 12-step non-denominational meeting founded on the principles of AA, we decided |
| 0:43.8 | this month we would share some of the basic concepts behind Alcoholics Anonymous, especially |
| 0:48.4 | since right now in isolation so many people are suffering with their addictions or realizing |
| 0:53.2 | they might have a problem |
| 0:54.3 | that they need help with. We really believe this topic will reach everyone at some point in some |
| 0:59.5 | capacity, whether you yourself struggle with addiction or someone you love does. We hope that |
| 1:04.7 | today's episode sheds light on an issue that's sometimes hard to find solutions with, |
| 1:09.3 | and then if you know someone who might be struggling, |
| 1:11.4 | that you'll share it with them. If you listen to this episode and you love it, we would love it |
| 1:15.3 | if you'd take a screenshot and share it and tag me on social media. And also, it helps us so much |
| 1:21.5 | if you guys leave a rating and a review. I wanted to just quickly read a rating that we got |
| 1:26.5 | a couple weeks ago that just made my day. |
| 1:29.2 | It was entitled So Inspiring and it's by Carly R.G. |
| 1:32.4 | And it says, I just love, love, love, Corinne and Neil. |
| 1:35.3 | I feel like we are great friends. |
| 1:36.9 | I'm so inspired by the messages that are shared this week. |
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