Thank you, God, for all you've given to me, for all you've taken from me, and for all you've left me. A man in the groups I attended in early sobriety used to...
I have had experience with both LifeRing and SOS. SOS I found to be too rigid. The Yahoo Group is pretty argumentative. I left it for that very reason....
Alcoholics Victorious is a church based 12 step program that has groups all over the country. I know what you mean about the people who are forced to go. They...
I use to think that too about people being forced to be at meetings..But I was told that it is planting the seed of recovery and maybe some one will hear their...
OMG!!! This is one of the most shocking statements I have ever heard in a recovery group. I think that is an awful thing to say! People are coerced into...
OMG!!!!!! Sorry you feel that way..But I know people who were mandated and hated it only to return when they knew it was what they needed and to try what ever...
It is not just AA or nothing. I am trying to empower people ~ not tear them down! If someone drives drunk repeatedly, yank their license and throw their ass in...
Hey, they don't have to go, they can always take "Plan B", go ahead & take their drunk driving or dope fiend asses to prison. Once it reaches the point that...
LOL..looks like were losing someone from our group and I hope it is not about whats going on here with the debate... Yank their lience and they still drive.. ...
1 thing about, I never even considered stopping until I got cleaned up/dried out & I never did that willingly. It was only through court coercion that I ever...
I don't know why she left. You never know who is standing next to you that has or may have gone through consequences that is stated here and have changed...
I don't think that there is anyone here that wants a member to leave a support group. I have only presented facts here regarding 12 Step Coercion and I have...
Hmmm, The only people I see that are "forced" to go to 12 step programs are the ones who are required by the judicial system because they have been driving...
Yes your right ..it is negative and thats not what were about..were here to help people by letting them use what ever recorce they want while using what people...
Here in Minneapolis and St Paul court systems offers the options of differnt recovery program's. Not just AA. I just recently started going to a women's aa...
And let me say this...I want to hear real life things..not from surveys..I had a councelor in detox that would not share her story with us,..and she is the one...
A Judge can't force you to do anything but to sit in a cell. If anyone is court ordered it is because they agreed to it in writing as part of a plea bargain or...
I'l share some ESH. In a couple of months I'll have 15 years of continuous sobriety through the program of AA. Before the program I couldn't go 2 days without...
That is a really nasty thing to say. Talk about hitting below the belt and being critical and judgemental. You all subcribe these traits to me yet it is you...
Am I missing something???...I dion't think we were to one trash talking ..just trying to get the point accross that the statistics she was posting meant...
I have a question...I went and seen 2012 yesterday..one part of the show is where a father gets a call from his son who knows what is coming..He tell his...
I don't think I would give up my sobriety knowing that the world was coming to an end. I've become used to living in the real world without excuses for my...
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