THEUDRCAST: UNCOVER - DISCOVER - RECOVER(Recovering from life, Recovering from substances)

Gord welcomes you to the fourteenth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study. Gord finishes up on Step 6, and dives into the importance of being entirely ready to have God remove all defects of character. He goes through how this is the step that separates the "adults from the children" in the context of recovery, emphasizing willingness, honesty, and open mindedness. He also explores the crit...

Bill welcomes you to the thirteenth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study. Bill finishes up Step 5 and gets into Step 6. He highlights the significance of humility and daily self-assessment and emphasize the necessity of discussing personal issues with God-centered, 12-step advisors, while noting that their approach is just one of many paths to recovery. Transitioning into Step 6, Bill underscores th...

Bill welcomes you to the twelfth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! In this episode, Bill focuses on the significance and the detailed process of Step 5 from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We discuss the need for rigorous honesty, the role of past experiences in shaping current behaviors, and the importance of a good sponsor to identify patterns. Bill highlights various scenarios illustrat...

Bill welcomes you to the eleventh episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! Bill continues to discuss Step 4 out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. This episode covers personal inventory, resentments, and fear in recovery. We talk about the importance of rigorous honesty, understanding the spiritual malady, and the practical steps to overcome these blockages through the Step 4 process. Bill also d...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the tenth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord start on Step 4 at the bottom of page 63 out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We discuss the fact-finding and fact-facing inventory as laid out in the Big Book, how to write a Step 4, getting down to the causes and conditions of our addictions, and what resentments are and how we deal with them on pa...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the ninth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord finish up Step 3 and discuss the original manuscript of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. We discuss how to quit playing God and trying to control people and situations around us, giving over our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand it and allowing God to be the director of our liv...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the eighth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! We discuss Step 3 out of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in the Chapter How It Works. Bill and Gord explore how to turn our wills and our lives over to the care of God as we understand him, how the real alcoholic has no effective defense against the first THINK, how the root of our troubles are actually of our own m...

Bill welcomes author, filmmaker and recovery activist Kerry Gladue to the “Social Impact” series. Kerry discuses: growing up in foster care, the history and effect of intergenerational trauma and residential schools on his family; entering recovery in his early 40s and starting new; and his book titled “Second Chances.” #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcas...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the seventh episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! We continue working on Step 2 out of the Chapter We Agnostics in the Big Book and discuss: opening the door to the belief in a higher power just a little bit; throwing out old ideas that don’t work for a set of new ideas that do work; the bedevilments; and how belief can come from seeing it work for others in the progra...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the sixth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! In this episode, we start with a short share of experience, strength and hope from Katie. Bill and Gord then discuss the chapter We Agnostics from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous including: Step 2, getting rid of old ideas that we not working for us in favour of a set of new ideas that could work for us, and moving f...

Bill welcomes his good friend and Executive Director of Oxford House Earl T to the UDRCAST. Earl discusses: his work in treatment houses; his own experience of alcoholism, homelessness and entering treatment; the importance of connecting with his Indigenous culture in recovery; and how he dedicates his life to service today. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theu...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the fifth episode of the 2024 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord wrap up discussion on the chapter More About Alcoholism which includes the “mental obsession,” and the lies that our disease tells us in active addiction. We then start into the chapter We Agnostics and discussion of the spiritual solution that can restore us to sanity, including how lack of power was our di...

Bill welcomes his good friend Richard C to the UDRCAST. Richard discusses: growing up in group homes, getting arrested and quitting school in his teens; his addiction and life of crime; and his powerful story of entering Sunrise Healing Lodge and his path to recovery and helping others. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcast #spiritualmalady #billwardlife #...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the fourth episode of the 2024 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord discuss one of the most important chapters in the Big Book—Chapter 3 titled More About Alcoholism. This chapter touches on all three aspects of the disease concept: the physical allergy, the mental obsession, and the spiritual malady. But this chapter explores in depth the mental obsession (or the “insane i...

Bill welcomes Debra Gopher to the UDRCast. Debra discusses working with (and the importance of) our Indigenous youth, the re-learning of her Indigenous culture and the importance of finding her true identity, and stories of her own journey which includes education, recovery, and work. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcast #spiritualmalady #billwardlife #bi...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the third episode of the 2024 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord discuss from the chapter There Is A Solution, an introduction to Step 2, the “bedevilments,” the necessity of a spiritual solution that heals our mental obsession/mental blank spots and spiritual malady,  and how a spiritual solution begins to accomplish things which we could not do ourselves. #recovery #sob...

Bill welcomes his good friend, and past Big Book Study host, Jesse P to the UDRCAST. Jesse and Bill discuss solution based recovery that is rooted in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, the practical application of the 12 Steps, dishonesty vs honesty, and the spiritual malady and the spiritual solution. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcast #spiritualmal...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the second episode of the 2024 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord conclude the discussion of Doctor’s Opinion, the alcoholic cycle (including the spiritual malady, the mental obsession and the physical allergy), the spiritual solution and the complete psychic change, the different types of drinkers. They also discuss Chapter 2 There Is A Solution, “the tremendous fact for...

Bill welcomes Robbie Daniels to the UDRCast. Robbie discusses the founding of Sober Crew in Calgary,  the importance and spiritual nature of Indigenous drumming, Robbie’s experience being homeless in Calgary for over 7 years, the job that Creator gives us, and the importance of reconnecting with his Indigenous culture. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcast...

Bill and Gord P welcome you to the first episode of the 2024 Big Book Study! Bill and Gord discuss the Forwards, an introduction to Step 1 and showing us what an alcoholic is, the spiritual malady (“a spiritual illness”), the plan of recovery, and the Doctor’s Opinion. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcast #spiritualmalady #billwardlife #billwardlifefirstn...

Bill welcomes TJ Sheehan to the UDRCast. TJ discusses: his move to the “recovery capital of Canada” Calgary, Alberta from the West coast; his work with Pivot and collaboration work they do in the recovery community; the importance of investing in youth through mentorship, experience and love; his own using and involvement in gang life; his longing to be “a part of”; his final moment of desperation...

In the fourth episode of a ten-part series titled “Social Impact,” Bill welcomes his very special guest, Rae-Dawn Whitney, who works in Child and Family Services at Tsuut’ina First Nation. Rae-Dawn discusses the newer supports available for Indigenous young adults (18-25) who age out of care and the importance of connecting with Indigenous culture and community. She also discusses her own story of...

Bill welcomes Gord Pritchard to the UDRCast. Gord discusses his early using, the importance of hitting bottom, learning to conceit to his inner most self that he was an alcoholic, seeing others recover and applying the principles of the program into every aspect of his life. #recovery #sobriety #sober #addicted #soberpodcast #recoverypodcast #theudrcast #spiritualmalady #billwardlife #billwardlife...

In the third episode of a ten-part series titled “Social Impact,” Bill welcomes his very special guest, and father, Emile Ward. Emile has spent the last four decades pioneering in counselling and addictions services for Indigenous peoples in Treaty 7 and Treaty 8 territory. Emile discusses how addiction services has evolved over the years, discussion of healing amongst Chiefs and Council’s in our...

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