Safe Recovery

Join Monica Richardson host and guest Nick Gaglia who Produced and DIrected Over The GW. A chilling film about the abusive teen rehab industry. Parents..this is a must listen to show.   

Join one woman as she tells us her tale of how her fathers membership in AA outweighed her own birhtday cakes.  AA teaches adults to become even more selfish? 

This is a previously recorded show from 2012. I am off to an International Film Festival. I will be back for a live show next week! I read the lastest News about Sexual Predators in AA.  I also address Many of the legal cases around AA and the 1st amendment and the establishment clause.  Smart Recovery has a great resource on the legal issues.

Join Host Monica Richardson for an informal discussion of what things were like in the cool, less restricted times of the 1970's. Beer. Pot, Braless, Marvin Gaye, Barry White dancing music in Small Bars, conpared to Facebook and texing. Let's  compare then to  now, the rehab, treatment,  Dr Drew mentality ridden world of today.  Some old freinds of mine as well as some new blogger freinds will be calling in to remember how and why some of us got hoodwinked!!! AND hopefully some of you who just grew out of it will share your thoughts too!

Join us for a  show with a trianed leader Laura Mackey from WFS...Women for Sobriety. Women for Sobriety has been around since the 1970's . 

Join Host  Monica Richardson and Recovery Coach Ashley Phillips for a 1/2 hour of  talk, information and recovered thinking and doing!!!

Did you ever feel like this stuff needed a re write? Ever wonder when Bill had time and money to do the research for Chapter 5 during those first 4 years and then he publishes the Big Book and acts like he had been doing studies. There is a huge ground swell to call a spade a spade. Join me for a 1 hour show where I will disect, diagree and debate the words written in Alcoholics's Anonymous Big Book and its 12 & 12. 

Join Monica and blogger Gunthar 2000 from expose AA blog, Author Hank Hayes and Amy Lee Coy for a one hour show celebrating my journey on the blog talk radio scene! Gunthar 2000 is responsible for inspiring me to host my own Radio Show after being a guest on his show The Stinkin Think Outreach Program.  call 818-475-9211 to talk to the host or ask a question. Please feel free to go to itunes and rate the show. Search monica richardson, then click on Safe Recovery.

This is a previously recorded show. Enjoy! I will be back  'live" next week with Gunthar 2000 and Hank Hayes and maybe a few other special guests. 

From Ohio, to South America, to Egypt, to Colorado ....the calls keep coming. From Pedophiles to average joe 13 steppers, things are getting worse not better. CALL in and tell us how things are going in the Unsafe place of Alcoholics and Narcotics ANonymous!  ANd please tell your Judge he can not send you there and ask for Smart or SOS or Harm Reduction or Moderation.org

Join Monica and Author and Highly acclaimed Nyack, NY Psychotherapist, Cheryl Adler for a 1 hour show.  http://soberuniversity.com/rivertownimages/rivertown.pdfhttp://soberuniversity.com/rivertownimages/rivertown.pdf Her book Sober University addresses how poeple can overcome addictions of all types.  Join us for another episode of Safe Recovery where we explore new and effective ways to heal from alcohol, drug overuse and as Cheryl says "any addiction". 

Celebrating 62,500 listens and free downloads on Blog talk radio Safe Recovery . Join Steven Slate for a 1 Hour  interview with Host Monica Richardson to discuss one more non 12 step recovery process.  Available free on itunes.

Interview with George Quant from a previously recorded show from May 2011. Enjoy! I'll be back next week.  A great alternative to drug use. Better focus and peacefulness can be added to your life with this simple method.

Join us for an interview with President of St Judes Retreat, a non 12 step place to go for help with alcohol or drug problems. If you need to get away from your environment to get help, this might be th eplace for you. Abstinence and Moderation are options here. 

Founder of SOS (secular oragnaizations for sobriety) Jim Christopher to be my guest.  SOS has over 500 meetings world wide for non religious people who want support in a group setting. A great place for atheists and those who do not like AA or NA. 

Join us for a 1 hour show with Tom Horvath Author, President of non profit free support non 12 step groups National Organization www.smartrecovery.org and Founder and President of Practical REcovery in La Jolla , a truly non 12 step treatment center. 

Stanton began working on Love and Addiction (which was published in 1975) in 1970. In these forty years he has predicted a remarkable number of addiction trends. By now it is clear that the way in which Stanton has reframed addiction for the past four decades – sometimes facing extreme opposition – has been prescient. Addiction is not a consequence of taking drugs and drinking. Rather, it arises from the way in which these and other compelling activities fit into people’s lives and meanings.

Join Leader of LifeRING  Canada, Michael Walsh, for a 1 hour "live" Show. 

An early show I did in 4/25/2011. How I began to see this literature as I was leaving AA for good. Enjoy and Happy New Year. I will be back doing "Live "shows next week. WARNING...I was still deprogramming when I did this show, you can hear that I still am figuring it all out. I have now been gone for 2 years. The book needs to be dunked in the ocean and they need to start over.

Whatever the reason. We understand. You are not alone. You are not powerless over a behavior like AA/NA and many  TV shows would like you to think.  Movies like SMASHED and FLIGHT are once again spreading the lie that AA / NA or any 12 step support group is the only way. It is not. This is a short informational show I have put together so that you can find help without going to rehab, costing $1,000.00 a day or attending AA meetings for life, where it might be very likely you could be siting next to a 3rd level sex offender or a violent criminal or just a very bad oldtimer AA guru... SMART RECOVERY, SOS, LIFERING, Women for Sobriety and Moderation Management are some other free choices.