Any group that tells you you’ll die if you leave? 🚩 Run for the hills.
In this episode of the Sobriety Bestie Podcast, I dive into the hidden danger in AA meetings — not just shady individuals or mini–cult leaders, but the ideology itself.
📖 Inspired by Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey, we’ll unpack his concept of Recovery Group Disorder (RGD) — the compulsive dependency on recovery meetings that looks and feels a lot like addiction itself.
Rational Recovery book: https://amzn.to/47AyGlh
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro — hidden dangers in AA
01:14 What is “Recovery Group Disorder”?
03:06 Are recovery meetings required?
05:55 Expanded definition of RGD
08:08 Problems AA creates in identity + thinking
10:40 How AA builds dependency
14:28 Moving on with life
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