12. Your own native beliefs and original family values are the best ones upon which to base addiction recovery.
Originally Posted by
MindfulMan 
So...the values you learned from your family. Which are of course different for every family.
Tough if your parents were abusive alcoholic drug addicts.
Yes, I can imagine it might be tougher to hold on to a non-abusive value learned from an abusive parent. But whose to say it could not be easier as a way “to base addiction recovery”.
There have been hundreds of stories, some true, some fiction, published over the course of U.S. history detailing this utilization of family values, sometimes from quite imperfect families.
And some of the values stand farther back than one generation. I look at #12 from an optimistic perspective, not from the pessimistic perspective that would perpetuate abuse.