Imagine a world where everyone with a chronic illness – be it heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, cancer, to name just a few-- had the advantage of a free, widely accessible, consistently available support network made up of former patients willing to sacrifice their own time and energy to reach out to those who still suffered.
We don’t need to ‘cure’ social anxiety, only to increase the individual’s level of control over his or her emotions…
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Reclaiming holidays doesn’t just keep them from becoming relapse triggers– it can also offer chances to live the joy in recovery.
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When I first got into counseling, I had this sneaky feeling that it couldn’t possibly be that simple.
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People attend AA for a variety of reasons, in different stages of readiness, and with diverse objectives in mind.
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You might as well write ‘I don’t want you to go to AA’ in big letters on the wall behind the therapist’s chair. It’s about that obvious.
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12 Step literature suggests that sponsors stick with advice on how to work the Steps, rather than stray into realms better left to trained professionals.
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After years in the drug world, it may not be easy for someone new to recovery to fit comfortably into the larger society. It helps to find people such as yourself– who used to use drugs but no longer do– to relate to.
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AA and NA aren’t designed to have a ‘success rate’. Their mission is to reach out a helping hand to those who still suffer.
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Sending somebody to meetings without some prep work is like making a referral for therapy without bothering to find a therapist.
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“How will your program curriculum and staff work for someone who doesn’t believe in a god?”
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Addicts and alcoholics follow a fairly predictable route from drinking/using to stable abstinence and recovery, whether they believe in God or not.
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The more we exert ourselves to help those with problems like ours, the more concrete benefits we receive from AA.
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