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

Mar 11 2025 216 ep. 71 mins 2
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I am Bill Ward, Recovery Activist, Mentor, Change Maker. One Person, One Family, One Community at a time. I host THEUDRCAST, which stands for Uncover, Discover, Recover. Here I look to share the understanding of what the Spiritual Malady looks like in our lives. And how this Spiritual Sickness triggers all sorts of self destructive behaviors, including but not limited to alcoholism-drug addiction, sex, relationship hopping, anger, pornography, gambling, social media. I help show people the way out of the darkness, malady & self destructive behavior. Through a connect with a HP

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THEUDRCAST: E-180 Big Book Study #15 | STEP 6 Pt 2 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Mar 11 2025 108 mins  
Bill and Gord welcome you to the fifteenth episode of the 2025 Big Book Study! In this episode, they focus on Step 6, detailing how the instructions help in the removal of defects of character. Through sharing their experience, strength and hope, they share on the importance of building spiritual strength, revealing how instincts and defects influence behavior. The importance of a

THEUDRCAST: E-179 Big Book Study #14 | STEP 6 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Mar 04 2025 99 mins  
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 e

THEUDRCAST: E-178 Big Book Study #13 | STEP 5 & 6 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Feb 25 2025 105 mins  
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, Bil

THEUDRCAST: E-177 Big Book Study #12 | STEP 5 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Feb 18 2025 81 mins  
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 sce

THEUDRCAST: E-176 Big Book Study #11 | STEP 4 Part 2 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Feb 11 2025 108 mins  
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 proc

THEUDRCAST: E-175 Big Book Study #10 | STEP 4 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Feb 04 2025 90 mins  
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

THEUDRCAST: E-174 Big Book Study #9 | STEP 3 PRAYER | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Jan 28 2025 84 mins  
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 dir

THEUDRCAST: E-173 Big Book Study #8 | STEP 3 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Jan 21 2025 106 mins  
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 actua

THEUDRCAST: E-172 Kerry Gladue | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction | Indigenous

Jan 16 2025 75 mins  
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 #re

THEUDRCAST: E-171 Big Book Study #7 | STEP 2 | Experience, Strength, and Hope | Addiction

Jan 14 2025 104 mins  
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 ot