Comments on: Rehab for sex addiction

By: Fearless Confessions « Trudging the Gentle Path of Happy Destiny

Fearless Confessions « Trudging the Gentle Path of Happy Destiny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:50:10 +0000

[...] that was a big help to me when I desperately needed help. I’ve mentioned her book, Love Sick here and here. I talked about the made for TV movie based on that book here. The new book is Fearless [...]

By: Rae

Rae — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:30:15 +0000

This is great stuff here GP. I’m grateful you shared about your experiences. Thanks so much.

By: T.

T. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:14:00 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this. Coming from an atheist household, I’ve struggled with trying to connect to the very Christian concepts of the 12 Steps. Things like “giving my life over to God” or letting “Thy will not mine be done” is really foreign to me. This really doesn’t work when you’ve been someone like me who connected her spirituality to her addiction, convinced that she had found her own “God” in her impulsive, short-lived flings with people and therefore could be pretty convinced that addiction was “God’s will.” It seems to me that even in order to follow the right “God’s will” you’ve gotta believe in the balanced, loving God of the New Testament rather than the rather angry, punishing God of the Old Testament.

By: Mary (MPJ)

Mary (MPJ) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:09:16 +0000

GentlePath, thanks so much for your thoughts on this. I have to agree that the religious (well, actually, specifically Christian) nature of recovery is exclusionary and unnecessary. I am not Christian and went into my own recovery as a self-proclaimed agnostic, and it was very hard to work around all the religious baggage. I’m at a place I’m comfortable with now, but I had to stop going to 12 Step for 4 years to get to a place where I could let go of that.