Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxnard (The Nard), CA, USA.
Posts: 13,989
In IOP I learned good life coping skills that changed my very mental and emotional make up. Its the living skills that help me maintain sobriety and it was the behavioral changes that started my recovery. Nothing has worked for me in the past be it AA or IOP until I changed my behavior first. Determination and motivation is good for maintaining my addiction treatment but all that goes for not if I still behave in my old drinking ways.
My IOP experience helped me enormously. There I learned how to put together an alcohol addiction treatment plan. One that I, as a non-theist, was able to carry over into the more popular faith based self-help groups. Having determination and being able to persevere is a main factor in my recovery efforts. With that I can make headlong progress in my personalized treatment program. Treatment works best to maintain my new non-drinking behaviors.