twinkletoesnyc

Hello,

I am a person here who is sober. 5.5 years........

I am attempting to pull my thoughts together around what I think about recovery and what I need.......

I found trauma therapy to helpful in my recovery as well as yoga. Being able to inhabit my body and learn how to feel and working through some drama from the past that was soooo hard to deal with has really helped.

I find Smart tools to be helpful but somewhat sterile and it took me a long time to really learn. so much AMAZING information but almost seems like hard to start. I just got three books from Albert Ellis from the library.....

I have attended Lifering chat meetings and like them and

I like what I read online about the AVRT recovery meetings

"Recovery groups are anti-family, and strive to become your new, surrogate family based upon the beliefs and values of addicted people, which are the opposite of your original family values. Your drinking/using problem will be transformed into chronic, lifetime addiction in one meeting, and you’ll take on a new addict-identity, drop your last name except for an initial, and take on a new last name, “Imanalcoholic,” for example, “Hi, I'm (so-and-swo) Imanalcoholic.” You’ll learn to shift the blame for your addiction onto your family with quack disease theories, codependency nonsense, enablers, bad genes, rotten childhoods, etc. "


anyways. I am looking for a job right now so I have some time to kill in forums.

Hello everyone.