freshstart57

There is a great advocate for SMART here, a frequent poster, who is known as OnlyTheTruth (OTT are your ears ringing yet?). In the meanwhile, please make google your friend, and have a good look at Self Help Substance Abuse &amp Addiction Recovery | SMART Recovery®, and you can do some more reading about Albert Ellis too, and rebt. Smart teaches self empowerment and reliance on your own abilities-it teaches tools that will last a lifetime, to help you make the choice to get sober and to make it stick. It's good stuff.

I think that 'normal' people, like my Ma for instance, use SMART techniques for mental health and positive ways to cope with life, without ever having heard of REBT or Dr. Ellis. I have learned to incorporate SMART tools into my sobriety like meditation and mindfulness, cost benefit comparisons, etc. It makes me wonder would I have become addicted to alcohol in the first place if I had known and used these things? Hmmmmmm.