Couldn't agree more. I knew AA wasn't for me when the "leader" of the group approached me in the local grocery store and very publicly asked if I'd be going to the next meeting....Safe to say I didn't make that meeting or any other after that.
Once I found other programs that didn't roll the victim card or the "higher power" dogma and leaned on science and exercise it clicked for me. I found a tribe that was based around hard work not hard prayers and that proved to be my secret sauce. Truth be told the spiritual side worked its way back into the picture on it's own once I was healthy and whole.
I'm not saying that AA doesn't have it's place, as you're eluding to but I think it's important for everyone to know that is very far from the only option in regards to finding your personal road to recovery.
Couldn't agree more. I knew AA wasn't for me when the "leader" of the group approached me in the local grocery store and very publicly asked if I'd be going to the next meeting....Safe to say I didn't make that meeting or any other after that.
Once I found other programs that didn't roll the victim card or the "higher power" dogma and leaned on science and exercise it clicked for me. I found a tribe that was based around hard work not hard prayers and that proved to be my secret sauce. Truth be told the spiritual side worked its way back into the picture on it's own once I was healthy and whole.
I'm not saying that AA doesn't have it's place, as you're eluding to but I think it's important for everyone to know that is very far from the only option in regards to finding your personal road to recovery.
Well said SG. Thank you.