Improve Our Conscious Contact - Angela Pugh

October brings a brand new contributor to the IOCC blog.  Welcome Recovery Coach Angela Pugh.  Angela has already given us two posts.  Sharing her experience strength and hope with... My First Contact & My Prayer.  Come and follow the blog on Facebook and Networked Blogs. 

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Rabbi Writes for Improve Our Conscious Contact

The featured writer on the IOCC blog this month is Rabbi Yisrael Pinson.

"Rabbi Yisrael Pinson, is the Director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House - a rabbi and spiritual mentor to the Jewish recovery community of Metropolitan Detroit. Since joining the Friendship Circle in May 2002 he has galvanized the outreach efforts of the Friendship House by becoming the spiritual mentor of the more than 400 addicts and their families who seek spirituality and support from the organization."

Please visit IOCC and read his amazing post The Melody & Primal Cry. To learn more about Rabbi Yisrael please visit Chabad.org

IOCC August Contributor David Lee Byrd

lDavid is an author of two books; his first, “Living a Spiritual Life” (LSL) chronicles his spiritual journey during the 17 years of his own recovery process. It offers insights on finding and building a spiritual way of life that avoids religious dogma and legalism.

LSL takes you on a journey of self discovery where you will find the beauty and joy you deserve in this life. The path lies within you; you are filled with a power packed potential that is just waiting to be realized.

His second book "Life Seeds" is a collection of Poetry that encompasses life’s many ups and down, its joys and sorrows. All of the poems are based on real life experiences that resonate with honesty, humor, insight, and wisdom.

As a licensed minister, certified drug and alcohol counselor, single parent, and student at Argosy University where he is working on a Masters degree in the behavioral sciences David’s life is incredibly rich and profoundly diverse.

He lives by the principles that he teaches. A promise that he made many years ago was, “to never, ever teach or encourage another person to do what he himself had not first tried, and found to be successful.”

http://segue101.blogspot.com/

IOCC April Contributor Kevin Griffin

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Read Kevin's IOCC post Control Yourself

About Kevin Griffin

Kevin Griffin has been practicing meditation since 1978, and doing Buddhist Vipassana practice since 1980. He has studied with the leading Western Vipassana teachers, including Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Ruth Denison, Christopher Titmuss, Ajahn Amaro, James Baraz, Wes Nisker, and many others. He has been teaching meditation in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1996.

Kevin has been actively working with the Twelve Steps since 1985, maintaining continuous sobriety from alcohol and drugs during that time.

What Kevin is up to in May 2011...

Friday, May 6, Meditation and talk, Insight Meditation Center of Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA sitting group.

Saturday, May 7, Daylong retreat. Insight Meditation Center of Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA sitting group.

Sunday-Friday, May 9-13, Dharma and recovery retreat, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY.

Friday, May 13, 7:30-9:30pm, Dharma and Recovery class, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, CA. (substitute teacher)

Friday, May 13, Meditation and talk, New York Insight, 28 W. 27th St, 10fl, New York, NY. 212-213-4802. nyinsight@earthlink.net

Saturday, May 14, Daylong retreat: "The Brahma Viharas in Recovery,", New York Insight, 28 W. 27th St, 10fl, New York, NY. 212-213-4802. nyinsight@earthlink.net

Sunday, May 15, Daylong retreat, Buddhism and the 12 Steps, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, 331 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.

Friday-Sunday May 20-22 Buddhist Recovery Network Conference, Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, 4300 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA.

http://www.kevingriffin.net
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kevin-Griffin/142878839070231

IOCC February Contributor

Rabbi Shais Taub
Author of God of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction and
Chasidic Thought

"Shais Taub is a popular scholar and teacher of Jewish mysticism whose contributions to Jewish recovery include authoring the bestselling book, G-d of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction which was lauded by Jewish recovery pioneer, Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski.

National Public Radio dubbed Rabbi Taub "an expert in Jewish mysticism and the Twelve Steps" for his work with the Jewish recovery community in Milwaukee where he lived for six years. He currently directs Conscious Contact, a program providing meetings for Jewish prayer, meditation and study at the Aleph Institute NE in Pittsburgh where he now lives with his wife and children.

He was recently selected to deliver the keynote address "G-d and Recovery" at the First Annual Conference on the Evolution of Addiction Treatment in Los Angeles, CA." from CHABAD.ORG

CLICK to view his contributions to the IOCC Blog this month!

IOCC December

David L Byrd is the December contributor on the IOCC blog.

Read his post A Simple Gift

Visit the IOCC Catalog page to find great books and gifts for your friends and family in recovery!

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Come explore the many posts of 2010 from the writers of the IOCC Blog!

September features the writings of Rabbi Shias Taub - Author of God of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction and founding co-director of the Jewish recovery community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

In August we heard from author and spiritual practitioner Gail DeWitt

July brought us lessons from writer and poet Jody K.

Artisan Rhonda O. shared her experience with us in June

Asking for Help was shared in May by contributor John R.

Meditation leader Randy F. shared words of wisdom in March

Author and historian Dick B. offered us six posts on Christianity and recovery in February

And we started 2010 off with Author and Buddhist in recovery Kevin Griffin

Still to come in 2010:

• Author, Radio Host, Chaplin and Reiki Master - Carol Ann Preston - October


• Director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House - a rabbi and spiritual mentor to the Jewish recovery community of Metropolitan Detroit - Rabbi Yisreal Pinson - November


• Author, counselor and speaker - David Lee Byrd - December

IOCC Wins Top 35 Award

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Thank you Online Nursing for choosing Improve Our Conscious Contact as one of the top meditation blogs in 2010!

View all the meditation blog winners here... http://www.onlinenursingprograms.net/top_meditation

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The Joy of Praying

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Rabbi Yisrael Pinson
CHABAD.ORG

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Rewards and gifts of prayer and meditation

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David Lee Byrd on IOCC

Come read the Improve Our Conscious Contact Blog with Augusts featured writer David Lee Byrd.

Learning to walk a Spiritual Path

Living by Spiritual Principles

by David Lee Byrd – Adapted from “Living a Spiritual Life”

Jody K. On IOCC

Come and read the postings of Jody K.  this month on the

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