Father Bill W.
Kanalaren Xehetasunak
Father Bill W.
I’m an Episcopal (Anglican) priest in recovery from alcoholism since 1972. I've spent my career in addiction treatment focused on 12-Step spirituality and exploring the pioneer history of AA. In discovering the lost 11th Step practice of Two Way Prayer, my program underwent a life-changing transform...
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A Rebel in the Oxford Group: 12 Steps & the OG
David Belden was born into a family of Oxford Group leaders and committed activists. The Group set out “to change the world” and throughout his early...
A Rebel in the Oxford Group: Getting In and Getting Out
David Belden was born into a family of Oxford Group leaders and committed activists. The Group set out “to change the world” and throughout his early...
A Rebel in the Oxford Group: Life of a Founder
David Belden was born into a family of Oxford Group leaders and committed activists. The Group set out “to change the world” and throughout his early...
Psychic Change in Addiction Recovery
Prof. Miller's book Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives has been described as the most definitive work on the...
Building Hope in Recovery: Part 2
The word HOPE appears no fewer than 34 times in the first 164 pages of the Big Book. In recovery, it’s vital for getting us started and for keeping u...
Building Hope in Recovery: What is Hope?
The word HOPE appears no fewer than 34 times in the first 164 pages of the Big Book. In recovery, it’s vital for getting us started and for keeping u...
Awakened Life of Service: Step 12
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A teacher of B...
Stress: What to Do with It
Tom Lavin is a therapist, an educator, and a close friend for over fifty years. He’s dedicated both his life and his career to helping people find eff...
Meditation 101: Step 11
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A student and...
Amends & Watchfulness: Steps 8,9 & 10
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A student and...
Letting Go: Steps 6 & 7
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A student and...
Cleaning Up My Cosmic Mess: Steps 4 & 5
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A student and...
Finding & Following a Higher Power Steps 2&3
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A teacher of B...
Sobriety & Enlightenment: Step One
Few people blend the Buddhist spiritual path with the 12-Step journey as seamlessly and as helpfully as Fr. Bill’s guest Kevin Griffin. A teacher of B...
The Oxford Group: An Inside View
Bill Wilson wrote: “Where did we learn about moral inventory, amends for harms done, turning our will and our lives over to the care of God? Where did...
Oklahoma Bill and His Inner Poet
A beautiful man in long term recovery whose life blended 12-Step recovery with Native American ceremony, and a resurrected Roman Catholicism. For man...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: Final Episode
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: What Depth Psychology Offers Pt.2
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way
seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: What Depth Psychology Offers
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: Connecting with the Beyond that Resides Within
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: No Cure but Healing
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: Three Things To Remember
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Depth Psychology: Going In Search of Our Soul
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: Coping with Chaos
When most of us addicts wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out fr...
Living Between Worlds in Recovery: When Our Map Disappears
When most of us wash up on the shores of recovery to say we’ve lost our way seems a gross understatement. The bottom has usually fallen out from under...
Women in Long Term Recovery: Concluding Thoughts
Women face any number of unique challenges at the start of their recovery, but still other problems (as well as blessings) lay ahead.
Father Bil...
Work, Aging, & Death
Women face a number of unique challenges at the start of their recovery, but still other problems (as well as blessings) lay ahead.
Father Bill’...
Meetings and Relationships
Women face some very unique challenges at the start of their recovery, but still other problems (as well as blessings) lay ahead. Father Bill’s guest...
Body Mind Spirit
Women face unique challenges at the start of their recovery, but still other problems (as well as blessings) lay ahead. Father Bill’s guest is Diane C...
Women in Long Term Recovery: What You Need to Know
Women face unique challenges at the start of their recovery, but still other problems as well as blessings lay ahead. Father Bill’s guest is Diane Cam...
Climbing All the Way
Tom Powers, Jr. grew up in the shadow of Bill Wilson but that didn’t keep him from descending into the pit of his ownalcoholism. To climb out of his i...
Too Damned Smart for Ladder Climbing
Tom Powers, Jr. grew up in the shadow of Bill Wilson but that didn’t keep him from descending into the pit of his ownalcoholism. To climb out of his i...
Some Dangers of Ladder Climbing
Tom Powers, Jr. grew up in the shadow of Bill Wilson but that didn’t keep him from descending into the pit of his own alcoholism. To climb out of his...
Climbing the Ladder
Tom Powers, Jr. grew up in the shadow of Bill Wilson but that didn’t keep him from descending into the pit of his own alcoholism. To climb out of his...
A 12 Step Recovery Ladder: Finding the Right Ladder
Tom Powers, Jr. grew up in the shadow of Bill Wilson but that didn’t keep him from descending into the pit of his own alcoholism. To climb out of his...
Inner Child 101
After doing Two Way Prayer for many years, a friend encouraged me to try integrating it with Inner Child Work. This certainly wasn’t anything the Pion...
Life Changers: The Groups
This series focuses on Harold Begbie’s book Life Changers. First published in 1922 it describes key elements in Frank Buchman’s program of radical cha...
Life Changers: Lessons from the Field
This series focuses on Harold Begbie’s book Life Changers. Published in 1922 it describes key elements in Frank Buchman’s program of radical change fr...
Life Changers: The Soul Surgeon
This series is focused on Harold Begbie’s book Life Changers. Published in 1922 it describes key elements in Frank Buchman’s program of radical chang...
Life Changers: It Begins with Trust
This series is focused on Harold Begbie’s book Life Changers. First published in 1922 it describes some of the key elements in Frank Buchman’s program...