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Old 02-28-2013, 11:47 AM
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soberlicious
 
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So for me I DO need to keep the other goals in my life in my mind, and not just say 'shut up Beast'...
Of course, which is completely appropriate. And that's the point. AVRT is about quitting alcohol, it is not a design for living. Quitting alcohol for good makes all the other things possible. AVRT is not concerned with providing pointers for personal growth. It assumes once the fog has clear from abusing alcohol or drugs, then one is perfectly capable of securing the resources to create a happy, healthy, well rounded, even spiritual life if that is what one desires. To be clear, nothing in AVRT says personal growth is not good, healthy, and/or important...it is just saying it is outside the realm of AVRT, which is strictly a means to ending addiction.
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