About this episode
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 Intro02:05 Mandatory Gratitude Rules05:50 Mandatory Gratitude Checklist10:23 Gratitude Officers Retire12:24 Mandatory Gratitude in AA22:58 Using Others To Feel Grateful32:57 Genuine Gratitude33:52 November AA Gratitude Month39:46 Spiritual Bypassing in AA46:39 "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.
