Join us for a fun Thanksgiving inspired episode as Carrie (Carrie's Substack) and I reclaim gratitude after leaving AA.
A lot of us are forced into masking our feelings with "gratitude" inside 12 step. But that wasn’t gratitude — that was obedience, conformity and spiritual bypassing.
So of course so many of us get the ick around gratitude after leaving AA.
It’s like a post-cult mandatory-gratitude hangover — your body remembers the coercion.
But we can reclaim what's been taken from us, we get to own ALL of our humanity.
We can choose to reclaim gratitude.
Timestamps:
00:00 Reclaiming Gratitude Intro
02:05 Mandatory Gratitude Rules
05:50 Mandatory Gratitude Checklist
10:23 Gratitude Officers Retire
12:24 Mandatory Gratitude in AA
22:58 Using Others To Feel Grateful
32:57 Genuine Gratitude
33:52 November AA Gratitude Month
39:46 Spiritual Bypassing in AA
46:39 "Nobody held a gun to your head"
1:00:50 Reclaiming Gratitude
👉 Deprogram Lounge (Deprogram community, courses, LIVE Q+As, Zooms, book club + more)
🧰 Escape Kit (resources to Deprogram AA)
📚 Deprogram Book List (my fave deprogram, cult recovery and critical thinking books)
🌀 Deprogram AA Course (free your mind at your own pace)
Let’s get f*cking free.
