It's not what you think! In my first video I was very aggravated by the email I received from someone who was claiming to represent AA and asked me to stop talking about and sharing information about AA on my YouTube channel. I filmed my previous video soon after receiving that email, which definitely influenced and tainted how I communicated my decision for discontinuing my participation in AA. If you watch that video to the end, my aggravation is clear. I hope this video clears up some of the misunderstanding as to the true nature of my feelings about AA and the 12-Step program, and why I chose to stop attending.

The 12-Step program teaches its members a way of living that promotes and enables successful recovery from a number of different issues. There are now 12-Step programs for nearly every issue imaginable. That's how successful 12-Step programs are. This program taught me how to live my life in a spiritual way that has not only taught me how to stay sober, but through this process, and my participation in private individual therapy (which I think is also key), enabled me to become the best version of myself I've ever been.

Choosing to move on to different programs and ways of enhancing my spirituality should not be met with "I bet you're already drinking" or "you are never recovered" or "oh, so you just take what was freely given to you and don't give back anything" because I chose to stop participating in AA. This very behavior and rhetoric is what gives AA a bad name. The people in the program who are not yet mentally or emotionally recovered, not the program itself, is what distorts the very nature of what it is meant to be/do.

And, furthermore, I would be remiss, and it would be irresponsible of me, as an educator, not to mention the problems that exist in 12-Step programs. In programs such as AA and NA, in particular, you'll find a group of attendees with varying levels of mental illness. You'll also find individuals who have been mandated to attend AA meetings as a part of their legal issues. As a result, you have a high concentration of nefarious people that requires a high degree of discernment when attending and interacting with people from these programs; especially for women. The 13th Step is real and there are people who are preying on the vulnerability of women who are desperate for help. You DO need to be careful.

There are also plenty of other programs available, if you would prefer not to engage in 12-Step recovery or if you've had a negative experience. Here are links to a few of those programs:

https://lifering.org
https://recoverydharma.org
https://smartrecovery.org
https://womenforsobriety.org
https://www.celebraterecovery.com

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