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Ep 139 Quackaholics Anonymous: AA Kept Him Relapsing, Leaving Set Him Free – Victor’s Story
Episode 139
Victor from Quackaholics Anonymous shares his powerful journey of breaking free from Alcoholics Anonymous and finding the power to quit drinking on h…
1 year ago
Ep 138 AA Invented This Term to Control You #CultyComments
Episode 138
In this episode of the Sobriety Bestie Podcast, I’m unpacking a culty comment that accuses my podcast of being “alcoholic thinking and behaving at it…
1 year ago
Ep 137 Deconstructing Sobriety Birthdays and AA Sober Time
Episode 137
Welcome to our sobriety birthday party podcast. Today September 29th I'm 16 years sober and Carrie (here's her Substack) turned 26 years sober on Sep…
1 year ago
Ep 136 AA Across The World Same Book, Same Control #CultyComments
Episode 136
In today’s Culty Comments episode of the Sobriety Bestie Podcast, we’re breaking down a classic AA defender argument: “You got sober in the wrong cou…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep 135 How Charlie Sheen Got Sober (And His Thoughts on AA)
Episode 135
Charlie Sheen has been one of the most outspoken celebrities about his relationship with Alcoholics Anonymous and sobriety.
From his infamous “winnin…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep 134 Alan Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower — Book Review
Episode 134
Alan Carr flips the script on alcohol. Instead of using willpower to fight cravings, he shows how to remove the desire to drink altogether. 🎉
In this …
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep 133 Deprogramming AA From the Inside — Bobby C.’s Story
Episode 135
Bobby C from Anonymous Addiction Podcast spent 35 years inside Alcoholics Anonymous — but he was never fully at peace with the ideology. Trapped by c…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep 132 AA Doublespeak: Your Best Thinking Got Your Here
Episode 132
AA loves to say “Your best thinking got you here.”
But when I arrived at AA, I was in survival mode with my worst thinking—traumatized, anxious, medi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep 131 When Strangers Try to Convince You You’re Powerless #CultyComments
Episode 131
A random AA stranger tried to convince me that I’m powerless—that I can’t even know if I’ll drink tomorrow.
He compared my choices to predicting the …
1 year, 1 month ago
Ep 130 The Doctor's Opinion That Trapped Millions for Life – Big Book Deconstruction #2
Episode 132
Welcome back to our Big Book Deconstruction series. In this episode, Kirsten and Carrie (Carrie’s Substack here) unpack The Doctor’s Opinion — the ch…
1 year, 1 month ago