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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: A Paradox: In Discipline There is Freedom
Description: In this podcast, we discuss one of the surprising paradoxes that exist within 12-step programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous.We learn that:We simply do not think that discipline could mean freedom. We thought of discipline as a form of punishment.Alcoholics and addicts of our type are fundamentally enslaved by our desires and cravings to get drunk and high as our only priority. Freedom to us was defined as doing whatever made us feel good.To become truly free of the obsessions that ruled our lives, we have to work for it by applying a...