Recovery Without God

Posted on August 13, 2008
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Is it possible to recover from drug and alcohol addiction without God or a Higher Power?

I know many of people that have taken this avenue and have had good results.  I for one have been torn with the theory of God even though I have been to college to be a minister.  I have drawn away into a life that was filled with drugs and alcohol for most of my life, than I would try and go back to the religious part to get clean, which I am able to get clean but my problem is staying clean.

So lately I have pretty much taken myself out of the AA/NA and have gone to nothing at all, but searching for a different type of recovery program maybe not taking AA/NA completely out of my recovery but I feel as if I need something else that focuses more on self than on a God or HP or something of that sort.  I know that there are those programs and have contacted a guy that I have known from another recovery site to get some of his opinions and what has worked for him.

I feel as if this might be a thing that I need to focus on right now.  Looking for solutions in order to keep from dieing from a overdose, or going permanently insane.  Although I haven’t been high in around or over 26 months my attempts to get high isn’t right I feel.  Something is there and I need to figure out why I would even put myself in a position like that knowing that it isn’t the path that I truly want to be on in my life.  Although I do miss the wild sex and the night life of it all ;) of course what guy wouldn’t!  LMAO  The thing that I fear the most is if I continue to try and get high that maybe the next one will be real dope and it will not only get me high but I could end up dieing from it.  Now I am not afraid of death, but I really don’t want my life to end today either. :)

So I was suggested getting hooked up with Life Ring and maybe checking out SMART Recovery so I think I will be doing some studying here the next few days or so and seeing what they are all about. I just know that I need to find something other that AA/NA and not putting them down at all because they have saved me more than not the last 6 years. Thanks

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2 Responses to “Recovery Without God”

  1. pat on August 14th, 2008 3:38 pm

    vic, i know aa/na has saved our ass’s

    and you know a hell of a lot about both… if a new view is needed, nothing wrong with that…

    just do a motive check…

    is it for the right reasons…?

    and not The Rat put’n a spin on things!

    and hey, life ring, and smart are still a power greater then self!

    for me, i ant fix’n what aint broke, i found what works, you stil haven’t, and hope you do, your worth it my friend!

    pat

  2. Spl on April 22nd, 2010 8:54 am

    I found Cliff Walker helpful.
    I am coming up on 5 years recovering in NA without G-D.
    After almost 16 years doing 12 steps as written without success, I didn’t or couldn’t get and stay clean until I took the religiosity (G-D) out of my N A program.

    NA’s first piece of literature, the Little White Booklet, suggests that each NA member must work out his or her own interpretation of the Twelve Steps.
    “Begin your own program by taking Step One…Go onto Step Two, and so forth, and you go on you will come to an understanding of the program for yourself.”
    Also see Cliff Walker

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