Originally Posted by
Weaver 
This rings so true for me. Previously I was a participant in a very popular recovery program.The most widely used program in the United States. When I actually took BACK the power, and believed in MYSELF...believed that...Yes I DO have a choice...my "light" came on. So happy that I finally realized this.
I hear you.
Probably even before I applied critical thinking as way of life, I questioned the idea of powerlessness, a question even more unwelcome in certain recovery programs than questioning a belief in a higher power. I didnt have any urge to be the absolute controlling power myself But as I explored a long held indocrinated message of "admitting to being powerless" it started to fall apart. What was I really admitting too when I said that I was powerless over gambling, and if I really believed this back to the wall message than the only answer was a Higher Power. So powerless no longer I became, I was never powerless in the first place just immature and unskilled.