Originally Posted by
Bob36 Understanding that recovery is an event and not a process basically cured me - the peace I've felt on this has been incredible, especially compared to the uneasy truce I was effecting with 12 steps - I'm basically going to meetings to encourage people - I don't really belong there.
AVRT is a seed idea, that once implanted, usually grows on its own. It eventually operates like anti-virus software, protecting you in the background. Additionally, AVRT will give you a hyper-awareness of the addictive mentality, and you'll start to see both addiction and recovery in a very different light. For me, the cognitive dissonance became too much, and I concluded that I did not belong in meetings.