ExGamer.net Podcast: One Year Later

July 12th, 2009 by exgamer | Filed under Addiction, Podcasts.

One year later, ExGamer.net is still on-line…

In this podcast, I’ll discuss:

My personal recovery and reflections from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
A brief time line of key events and how the media spotlight has impacted my life
The importance of parental involvement in preventing addiction and the use of games that aren’t age appropriate
How a recent quarter billion dollar Ontario government investment in the video game industry should be matched by a commitment to help kids and parents beat compulsive gaming
Thoughts on product labelling

Thanks for listening. As promised, here’s the excerpt from the Big Book:

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Are these extravagent promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us – sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.

-Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, Chapter Six, Into Action, P. 84