(November 10, 2016 at 10:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Another face to face meeting that has a facilitator and no religion is Smart Recovery (I've not attended but have spoken with others who do). They have online also (I've not tried it). They are not as ubiquitous as AA so not sure if you will have access where you are. They definitely have a different slant on disease/recovery.
http://www.smartrecovery.org/
I personally attend face to face SMART meetings on a regular basis and I've thoroughly enjoyed the people and discussions there. The tools for recovery they teach you about there are realistic and can be applied by anyone. Would HIGHLY recommend SMART Recovery for those folks interested in a secular recovery program.
I did not like AA/NA/HA at all, but I have attended 'atheist and agnostic' AA meetings and those were more bearable than the normal meetings for me.
“Love is the only bow on Life’s dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
It is the air and light of every heart – builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody – for music is the voice of love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” - Robert. G. Ingersoll
