Old 07-28-2021, 09:18 PM
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msl999
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Join Date: Apr 2019
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I’ve been to many SMART Recovery meetings and none of them focused on moderation or harm reduction. As I recall, most of them actually made one of the tools from the SMART handbook the focus of the meeting. It was usually a round of introductions first, then discuss a topic (usually a tool), and then close with questions, concerns, and announcements.

Often though, the introduction portion would go waaaaay long (good thing), because of the stories people would tell. I found these meetings to be helpful, interesting, and full of really cool people. I really liked the SMART meetings. Unlike other meetings, I usually came out of SMART meetings feeling better.

I’ve never been to an online SMART meeting, so I have no opinion about those.
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