The Power of Now: Anonymous Addiction, @MyTruthAboutAA (as Bobby C. sees it)
I met Bobby C. by chance a few weeks ago when he reached out to me after hearing my podcast with Joe Conley. Bobby and Joe do a podcast together called the Alcoholics Anonymous Deprogramming Podcast, which is designed to help people in recovery acknowledge their power and give them alternatives to treatment rather than the standard American model of the anonymous groups.
Bobby and I have a lot in common in our views of alcoholism and addiction. Both of us have a strong distaste for the idea that a person who drinks too much is powerless, something touted by the anonymous group model. In fact, we believe very much the opposite: that you are the master and creator of your own reality.
In this podcast, we discuss Bobby’s work in “uncovering, recovering, and discovering the truth about ourselves, society, the world, and the universe.”
If you think that your recovery from alcohol is simply about your drinking habit, that’s really not true. Drinking, like all compulsive behavior, is not the sole problem, but rather the RESULT of a variety of external and internal factors.
As we discuss in the podcast, America (and Western society in general) is not structured in a manner that educates individuals on the power of choice, questioning, and reframing thoughts. Rather, it churns out people are products for the sake of the almighty dollar.
This episode focuses heavily on the Power of Now- the idea that all change happens in the present. The past is over. The future does not exist. It is today, in the moment, that change occurs. Progress can feel slow, but if you’re grounded in the now, it surely will be more rapid than you imagined.
Bobby advocates for every individual to become experts in their own experience, and be open to information about themselves, society, and the world. And then, take action. Act in the now.
Bobby C. runs a community online called Anonymous Addiction @mytruthaboutAA “as Bobby C. sees it” which you can find on Facebook. His podcast, the Alcoholics Anonymous Deprogramming Podcast can be found on YouTube. Bobby is also on Twitter @mytruthaboutAA
