Comments on: The Secret to Beating Drug Addiction and Alcoholism http://www.spiritualriver.com/the-secret-to-beating-drug-addiction-and-alcoholism/ Non-traditional recovery from addiction Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kimberlyhttp://www.spiritualriver.com/the-secret-to-beating-drug-addiction-and-alcoholism/comment-page-1/#comment-153766 Kimberly Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:49:31 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/wordpress-2.0.4/wordpress/?p=84#comment-153766 I think most of my family is addicted to something. I had a total knee replacement and have allowed myself to become dependent on pain meds. I want to stop. I want my family back and sober. If I can't stop how can I expect them to? I have started to read different post so today is day 1 of my beginning of something. Hopefully it will be the day I start to quit. I am ashamed because I knew better. Pray for me. I think most of my family is addicted to something. I had a total knee replacement and have allowed myself to become dependent on pain meds. I want to stop. I want my family back and sober. If I can’t stop how can I expect them to? I have started to read different post so today is day 1 of my beginning of something. Hopefully it will be the day I start to quit. I am ashamed because I knew better. Pray for me.

]]> By: Joehttp://www.spiritualriver.com/the-secret-to-beating-drug-addiction-and-alcoholism/comment-page-1/#comment-137934 Joe Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:00:05 +0000 http://www.spiritualriver.com/wordpress-2.0.4/wordpress/?p=84#comment-137934 I must say i quite like your approach to recovery, certain aspects i may differ with but over all you check the same boxes as me. I attented AA meetings for around 1 year and saw people come and go. I couldnt help but get frustrated at lack of progress it was making. So i really looked at depth at what was going on, my findings initially were disturbing to say the least. I asked a lot of questions and recieved a lot of empty answers like "they aint getting it", "dont worry your getting it, thats why your inquisitive" it was nonsense in my opinion, no one would actually say what "it" was, this miraculous cure "it" "it" that could take all my troubles and lay them to rest...."it" to me, i discovered was God, and it wasnt even my god, but a god of AA's understanding..I could babble at length of the wrongs of the 12 steps of recovery and how they dont even mention the words "health" "sobriety" or even "recovery" in any of them. As an aethiest i had no concept of a god of any understanding, so i felt quite doomed and by the very teachings of AA i was sure that relapse would be inevitable! The self fullfilling phrophecy! But no, i didn't. While this sounds very anti AA i have to say that steps 4 and steps 10 are steps that anyone can practice, and will help you become a better person, because change is a must in recovery. The council and fellowship at AA i cannot criticise, i had long and deep converations with people that really helped. The zero tolerence to alcohol at AA was also a help, a big help! My recovery was a journey of self discovery. The more i learned about myself, the easier it was not to drink. Addiction is by its very definition "mood and substance"how a substance changes a mood. Addiction is a learned behaviour we have to somehow forget, but we can't, we have to learn new ones and replace the old. To anyone reading this, recovery is no walk in the park, its hard in the beginning, but well worth it. I was a hopeless drunk, i lost everything, if you want to get better read as much as you can about recovery, sort the good stuff from the bad , take what you need and never lose belief in yourself, at the end of it all it has to be you who beats this, no recovery program will totally do it for you, its not as hard as you think. I'm 3 years sober and have no intention of drinking. I must say i quite like your approach to recovery, certain aspects i may differ with but over all you check the same boxes as me.
I attented AA meetings for around 1 year and saw people come and go. I couldnt help but get frustrated at lack of progress it was making. So i really looked at depth at what was going on, my findings initially were disturbing to say the least. I asked a lot of questions and recieved a lot of empty answers like “they aint getting it”, “dont worry your getting it, thats why your inquisitive” it was nonsense in my opinion, no one would actually say what “it” was, this miraculous cure “it” “it” that could take all my troubles and lay them to rest….”it” to me, i discovered was God, and it wasnt even my god, but a god of AA’s understanding..I could babble at length of the wrongs of the 12 steps of recovery and how they dont even mention the words “health” “sobriety” or even “recovery” in any of them. As an aethiest i had no concept of a god of any understanding, so i felt quite doomed and by the very teachings of AA i was sure that relapse would be inevitable! The self fullfilling phrophecy! But no, i didn’t. While this sounds very anti AA i have to say that steps 4 and steps 10 are steps that anyone can practice, and will help you become a better person, because change is a must in recovery. The council and fellowship at AA i cannot criticise, i had long and deep converations with people that really helped. The zero tolerence to alcohol at AA was also a help, a big help! My recovery was a journey of self discovery. The more i learned about myself, the easier it was not to drink. Addiction is by its very definition “mood and substance”how a substance changes a mood. Addiction is a learned behaviour we have to somehow forget, but we can’t, we have to learn new ones and replace the old. To anyone reading this, recovery is no walk in the park, its hard in the beginning, but well worth it. I was a hopeless drunk, i lost everything, if you want to get better read as much as you can about recovery, sort the good stuff from the bad , take what you need and never lose belief in yourself, at the end of it all it has to be you who beats this, no recovery program will totally do it for you, its not as hard as you think. I’m 3 years sober and have no intention of drinking.

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