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Rose White
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Thank you for the support and validation @Friday and @barefoot . It helps me put it in perspective.
I was liking the program prior to this exercise. It helps me focus on my strengths and goals. It might be hasty to quit based on this one exercise.
The man who started it is kind of like a pit bull for harm reduction. In the world of atheism versus religion there was a man called Richard Dawkins called “the atheist pit bull”. Stanton Peele is like that for harm reduction. He hammers on the leaders of the “addiction as disease” model and in interviews or debates he’s not afraid of o talk over other people. So he seems a little arrogant, but he’s definitely the small guy compared to the AA disease model folks. And his perspective seems so much more logical and less invasive.
I can see how scrupulous I’m being about this one exercise, trying to do it perfectly. And based on your responses I can see how that perfectionism is less than helpful.
I’ve written down all the steps, I’m keeping it in mind for if a genuine opportunity arises. I can return to it if I want to, but it might behoove me to see if there are more things in the program that might lift me up like I experienced prior to this exercise.
I was liking the program prior to this exercise. It helps me focus on my strengths and goals. It might be hasty to quit based on this one exercise.
The man who started it is kind of like a pit bull for harm reduction. In the world of atheism versus religion there was a man called Richard Dawkins called “the atheist pit bull”. Stanton Peele is like that for harm reduction. He hammers on the leaders of the “addiction as disease” model and in interviews or debates he’s not afraid of o talk over other people. So he seems a little arrogant, but he’s definitely the small guy compared to the AA disease model folks. And his perspective seems so much more logical and less invasive.
I can see how scrupulous I’m being about this one exercise, trying to do it perfectly. And based on your responses I can see how that perfectionism is less than helpful.
I’ve written down all the steps, I’m keeping it in mind for if a genuine opportunity arises. I can return to it if I want to, but it might behoove me to see if there are more things in the program that might lift me up like I experienced prior to this exercise.