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Old 05-28-2013, 01:33 PM
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MythOfSisyphus
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To a degree all our actions are chosen by us. I'm trying to get that point across but perhaps I'm being misunderstood.

The most important thing for me to take away from AVRT is that so far the technique has allowed my to completely stop participating in a behavior that was killing me. The author of the system has acknowledged that there are occasionally people so "bad off" that they require more than just the lite web version. For that small sub-set he does live counseling.

The point I was trying to get across is that where AA might say you're powerless and need to give your burden to God, AVRT might say it was your own choice all along. That's a new and powerful message to someone that's spent 30 years believing recoveryism was the only alternative to alcoholism.
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