006 Questioning 12-Step Recovery - a podcast by Liv & Tiffany

This episode unearths all of the questions, concerns, and fears around 12-step recovery, and the ultimate question: Is 12-step recovery right for me? For Liv and Tiffany, they both had niggling feelings about certain aspects of the program, like thinking about their character as defective, not being able to trust independent thought, and resigning themselves to live in a church basement several evenings a week for the rest of their lives. 

Many of us have these concerns, and we want to shine a light on them. 

We have found that since writing and talking about these concerns, many people have come forward saying they too felt the same way but were too frightened to say something — they thought it was their “addiction speaking.” Frankly, we find this kind of language and conditioning unhelpful. For us, recovery is about recovering the ability to make decisions that honor us rather than harm us; it’s about fulfilling our potential and regaining trust in ourselves. We found it disempowering to subscribe to the belief that we needed to always question our thoughts, that we must rely on others to make decisions, and that we could not trust ourselves. The decision to leave empowered us to create our own path of recovery.

We invite you to tell us the ways in which you’re breaking free in our free Facebook community: Breaking Free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakingfreecommunity

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