Originally Posted by notalwaysever
but giving things up to a higher power just does not sound like me.
Originally Posted by SSIL75
It's not for me, either. Any kind of support is nice though. Here, SMART, I use some rational recovery stuff. Lots of options!
I can so relate
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As a non-theist I found that I can recover from alcohol addiction without a Higher Power. I did however need to seek the care of helping people and have an addiction treatment plan.
Drinking had become a second nature reaction to life for me. Happy, sad, good circumstances, nightmarish circumstances and all points in between did not matter, I drank regardless. That's addiction, it causes ones life to become unmanageable. And that's what it was for me: unmanageable. But nothing more than that. I need to bring back some manageability to my and a good recovery plan with support did just that.
I unitize SMART, CBT and support like here at SR along with self-help meetings and recovery groups. I tried doing recovery alone and the results were disastrous. Also having people with quality long term sobriety that are secular like myself make for a good example to follow.