I am firmly against the recovery group methodology that has been touted for years. If anything, I consider myself a former victim of it albeit it was all I knew about and therefore out of pure raw fear I did not drink for 13 years.
AVRT is what has finally allowed me to experience a permanent abstinence from alcohol void of all the emotional turmoil I experienced using a recovery group method.
Even though this is my opinion based on my experience, I no longer have any feelings of anger and resentment about the popular recovery group I had the first couple months I found SR and came to learn about AVRT.
One has to do what one has to do if they want to get sober and stay sober. I'm just glad I found another way.