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Addiction & Recovery

tavalon

(27,985 posts)

14. Sorry, I'd like to follow your rule, but AA and all the anonymous 12 step groups

Reply to Bertha Venation (Original post)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 09:36 PM

Jun 2013

are so profoundly helpful to so many people, it doesn't make sense not to mention it. BTW, we each develop our own concept of "higher power". I don't believe in a sky daddy, but I found my higher power, two in fact. One, my higher self and two, the rooms.

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think I might be a drunk [View all] Bertha Venation Feb 2013 OP

not AA annabanana Feb 2013 #1

Seriously? Old Codger Feb 2013 #2

I had trouble with that too when I joined AA. The thing is a higher power can be anything. applegrove Feb 2013 #3

Amen Old Codger Feb 2013 #4

.... NMDemDist2 Feb 2013 #5

I'm still libodem Feb 2013 #6

I also worked in a treatment center libodem Feb 2013 #7

You know what? I don't remember posting this thread. Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #8

.... NMDemDist2 Feb 2013 #9

Yeah. Not good. Bertha Venation Feb 2013 #10

I entered AA outraged at the higher power stuff cally Feb 2013 #11

What could a higher power be?? Stuart G Mar 2013 #12

12 years sober coming up in August TommyCelt Mar 2013 #13

Sorry, I'd like to follow your rule, but AA and all the anonymous 12 step groups tavalon Jun 2013 #14

exactly libodem Jun 2013 #15