Busting Addiction and Its Myths
The purpose of our podcast is to help families learn the truth about addiction and alcoholism so that they can take the right action to help the addict they love and to help themselves at this critical time in their lives. Exposing the truth about addiction and alcoholism also requires that we bust the myths surrounding both addiction/alcoholism and the recovery process.
Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Mini Series 7 - Do recovering people have to go to meetings their entire life?
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SafeHouse Rehab Thailand
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Season 107
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Episode 6
In this podcast, the producer of our podcast series, Tony, asks the following question:
Do recovering people have to go to meetings their entire life?
- One way to look at the question is: "You have to go to meetings until you want to go to meetings and then you don't have to go to them anymore". What starts as an obligation turns into a desire.
- Taking the "forever" view obscures an important tenet of recovery: the goal of life-long recovery achieved but one day at a time.
- It is indeed a personal obligation to oneself to go to meetings. The benefits reveal themselves in due time if given a chance. One makes lifelong friends in the fellowship, friends who share a passion for helping each other stay sober and enjoy life to the fullest.
- If one thinks of the small price paid for going to meetings - a few hours a week and a few bucks in the basket - for the benefits gained in sobriety, it will not be seen as a sacrifice. One will think of it as a blessing.
There exists a myth that going to meetings for the rest of one's life is drudgery. The myth evaporates when a recovering person aspires to life-long recovery just one day at a time.