Alcohol Recovery Without 12 Steps Community Group
This group was created to explore various recovery paths for Alcoholism. We generally chose to explore paths outside of the AA model, or ones which incorporate, but are not limited to AA. Anyone wanting to learn and explore how to become free from alcohol addiction are welcome. Our main goal is to support each other with compassion and decency, while remaining open minded...
I read that the AA format as that of a Christian revival meeting. I never put 2 and 2 together before. I always complained that the old timers don't grow. They don't share any problems that they have in the present. When they speak it's about the past relating the debauchery of their drinking, followed a by alleluia I found god.
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To me the phsycology is replacing one obsession with another. Of course one is definately not going to kill you, but some of us can't switch our brains over like that if we don't have religious faith. I'm not sure of anything I could fixate my mind on enough to fill that need; possibly service work. I think some old timers were brought up in that time where you didn't share your feelings, or possibly they see themselves as role models and don't want to show weakness.
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