AUDIOBOOK
About
Recovery
What follows is for those who are addicted and for their families and friends. This is because they all share the same problem.
Recovery is really based on four principal ideas. The first is that as an addict or a family member you are utterly 'powerless' over drugs, alcohol or any other addiction.
The second is that because of this the only choice is to turn to something bigger than yourself… your sense of a higher power or the sacred. For some this higher power may be just the power of the group they go to.
The third is realising that your thinking, in its attitudes and behaviours has been disturbed by the addiction or the addict and you accept that you want to change your attitudes and behaviour.
The fourth is that you can only keep the gift of healing that you have received if you give it away by helping others.
The most liberating principle of mutual aid 12 step programmes for addictions is freedom from religion. Instead, your own spirituality can be anything you see it as.
What follows is for those who are addicted and for their families and friends. This is because they all share the same problem.
Recovery is really based on four principal ideas. The first is that as an addict or a family member you are utterly 'powerless' over drugs, alcohol or any other addiction.
The second is that because of this the only choice is to turn to something bigger than yourself… your sense of a higher power or the sacred. For some this higher power may be just the power of the group they go to.
The third is realising that your thinking, in its attitudes and behaviours has been disturbed by the addiction or the addict and you accept that you want to change your attitudes and behaviour.
The fourth is that you can only keep the gift of healing that you have received if you give it away by helping others.
The most liberating principle of mutual aid 12 step programmes for addictions is freedom from religion. Instead, your own spirituality can be anything you see it as.