Father Bill W.
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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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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...
Life is Not a Dead End
I was invited to share with the “As Bill Sees It – AA Group” in Sheffield, England on March 30th , 2025. The speaker shares on one of Bill Wilson’s wr...
Intervention Day
Jeff and Debra Jay are the co-authors of Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention. Now in its third edition, their book has helped thousands of fa...
Intervention: Getting Ready... Set, Go
Jeff and Debra Jay are the co-authors of Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention. Now in its third edition, their book has helped thousands of fa...
Intervention: Getting Ready
Jeff and Debra Jay are the co-authors of Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention. Now in its third edition, their book has helped thousands find...
Intervention: A Family's Guide w. Interventionist Jeff Jay
Jeff and Debra Jay are the co-authors of Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention. The book is now in its third edition and has helped thousands f...
Exploring the Serenity Prayer
The Serenity Prayer has long been associated with Alcoholics Anonymous. It’s a prayer uniquely fitted to meeting the needs of alcoholics and addicts a...
Exploring the Big Book Myths
William Schaberg is the author of an important new book that’s “a must read” for every 12-Step member ready to separate recovery myth from recovery mi...
AA's Spiritual Roots: Living a God Guided Life
Over thirty years ago an AA archivist gave me a book that
changed my life. It’s one of the best descriptions of the Oxford Group program out of...
AA's Spiritual Roots: Restitution Revolution
Over thirty years ago an AA archivist gave me a book that
changed my life. It’s one of the best descriptions of the Oxford Group program out of...
AA's Spiritual Roots: Surrender to Win
Over thirty years ago an AA archivist gave me a book that changed my life. It’s one of the best descriptions of the Oxford Group program out of which...
AA's Spiritual Roots: Sharing the S Bomb
This episode tackles a subject that’s pretty much taboo in
12-Step meetings: SIN. It was a key concept in the Group and Bill Wilson called it by...
AA's Spiritual Roots: House Parties & Frank Buchman
Over thirty years ago an AA archivist gave me a book that
changed my life. It’s one of the best descriptions of the Oxford Group program out of...
AA's Spiritual Roots: Digging into the Oxford Group
Over thirty years ago an AA archivist gave me a book that changed my life. It’s one of the best descriptions of the Oxford Group program out of which...
Science Fiction - Spirit Fact: The Key of Willingness
Michael T. recovered young and has been sober in AA for many years. But when he discovered AA’s original Pioneer Program things inside him started to...