Originally Posted by
fini 
Admittedly, when I read someone post "I am powerless over alcohol" my knee jerk thought is hmmm, AA. I believe this is likely due to years of former conditioning.
Received,
i spent a couple of years sober on a secular recovery forum before i came to that conclusion. no former conditioning whatsoever from AA; quite the opposite. had spent oodles of years convinced that i should have power and control over alcohol and drinking.
haha, quite blew my mind, really, when i finally saw it.
cosmic joke. kind of.
I had never been to a recovery forum much less a secular one. I was strictly drawing on my 8 year experience spent elsewhere which was where I first heard it and continued to hear it on a nearly daily basis, thus my belief that it is due to former conditioning.
Just my little 'ol experience.
Thanks for sharing your experience.