You now have access to Addictive Voice Recognition Technique® (AVRT®), a powerfully simple means to defeat any addiction, to any substance or behavior, in as short a time as you like. The link below will guide you through the decision making process to total recovery, before you sleep tonight.
Before you click this link, however, observe your thoughts and feelings, positive and negative, about drinking or using. Feel the hope, but notice the dread! Thoughts and feelings which support continued use are called the Addictive Voice (AV); those which support abstinence are you. When you recognize your AV, it becomes not-you, but "it," an easily-defeated enemy that has been causing you to drink. If you aren’t under the influence right now, go ahead and click the link!
AVRT: The Class
Vacancies exist in the 2-day sessions beginning on Jan. 11 and Jan. 21, 2010 Start the new year right!
The greatest give you can give your family is your original self, as you were before the onset of addiction. AVRT: The Class is two days of intensive, face-to-face
instruction on AVRT-based recovery conducted by Jack Trimpey at the RR
national office in Northern California. Return home securely, permanently abstinent and indulge the real holiday spirits you long for. Pick the earliest two
consecutive days you can appear for this life-changing event, and call
530-621-2667....[More Inside]
Deborah Springborn wears many hats in Rational
Recovery® operations. She is a friendly voice who often answers the
Rational Recovery hot line, the editor and producer of many multimedia
productions in the RR Bookstore, creates educational website resources
such as the AVRT quizzes on this page, video photographer for community
activities, and moderator for the Rational Recovery Discussion Forums.
Take a short quiz on your understanding of AVRT®. You will get a score with suggestions for improvement.
Rational Recovery Monitor Program
Notice to Attorneys, Judges, Courts,
Licensing Boards, Monitoring Authorities:
When substance abuse interrupts a career, disrupts an organization, or endangers the public, strong, decisive action must be taken to protect the parties involved. In the sprit of tolerance and leniency, diversion programs have been instituted nationwide to protect the public interest while addressing the individual’s problem of substance addiction. Unfortunately, substance abuse diversion programs univerally adnere to the recovery doctrines of AA/NA, requiring intensive meeting attendance and substance and addiction treatment services based upon the variants of the disease concept of addiction.
The Rational Recovery Monitor Program is accepted in a number of jurisdictions as meeting the requirements for diversion programs for impaired professionals (physicians, nurses, dentists, professional counselors, attorneys, airline and military pilots, etc.), employees, DUI/DWI offenders, and cases involving child custody. The RRMP is a password-protected, monitored discussion forum for persons willing to accept lifetime abstinence in lieu of one-day-at-a-time sobriety under evening supervision.
RRMP is in the subscriber’s area, dsecribed more completely… [Read more..]
If you aren’t going to drink/use any more:
Why would you want to know why you used to do it? What’s the difference?
Why would you count time since your last buzz?
Why would you attend recovery group meetings?
Pick
the earliest two days you can spend in California and get registered
for AVRT: The Class, 2 days of face-to-face AVRT that will end your
addiction. Call 530-621-2667 now.
Background When Lois and I decided to create a better path to addiction recovery back in 1985, it seemed we could improve on what already existed — the recovery group movement and its business arm, the addiction treatment industry. We launched a network of recovery groups based upon the idea that addiction is a psychological hangup which can be overcome through group discussions of psychology. We linked strongly with the addiction treatment industry by recruiting hundreds of professional counselors to oversee local groups.
The network spread into a thousand cities, and participants in recovery joined together in the evenings, away from their families, socializing with other local substance abusers. They kept coming back year after year in a quest for sobriety based upon emotional comfort, inner peace, self-understanding — plus the far-off hope of eventually resuming a moderate degree of self-intoxication.
Finally it became obvious that nothing had really changed, that Rational Recovery groups based upon psychology were simply a different flavor of a “spiritual” doctrine created long ago by and for addicted people. Group facilitators even boasted of causing “humanist conversions,” meaning the agenda reached far beyond defeating addiction into evangelistic atheism.
Having been seriously addicted for many years myself, I finally understood that any means of recovery devised by addicted people will necessarily preserve and extend addiction. The RR groups had merely substituted humanistic psychology for religion, and perpetuated the addict-centered approach we now call recoveryism. This piercing insight brought about the end of the Rational Recovery groups as well as severance from the addiction treatment industry.
Rational Recovery today is family centered. Our flagship, Addictive Voice Recognition Technique® (AVRT®), is based upon universal family values, and the addicted family member gets only the support which his own family sees fit to provide. Often this means no support, which is fine, because addicts are not disease victims but traitors to their families who must earn respect through prolonged abstinence.
AVRT-based recovery is not tough love, because it’s tough to love an addicted person. We know that behind their craziness, however, addicted people are family people who can shoulder the burden of abstinence and grow strong from doing so. For a more in-depth understanding of independent recovery, read the acclaimed article, Why Self-Recovery?
We both wish AVRT® had been available when we needed it most 25 years ago. That would have definitely saved our family enormous difficulties and despair. Our lives are dedicated to making AVRT® a viable option for all addicted people, including your family. You can get started immediately by reading the tabs above on My Recovery, Families, and Recoveryism.
There is enough information at this website for you to totally recover from any addiction, e.g., alcohol, crank, crack, heroin, opiates, sex and porn addiction, overeating, computer addiction, gambling, or other personal behavior that goes against your own better judgment.
• If you're drinking/using today, you won't learn much of anything. Come back in the morning or when you aren't under the influence.
• To quit your addiction you must first stop drinking/using long enough to learn AVRT®. […More Inside.]
The full curriculum of AVRT-based recovery is contained in the DVD set: AVRT: Live
AVRT: Live is direct, learn-by- video recovery from addiction, within the time it takes you to view this set of 5 DVD’s, in the privacy of your home...[More Inside]
In Rational Recovery®, the family has an entirely different role than in the traditional disease/treatment way of thinking. One popular idea is that families should gather together with other troubled families, seeking outside guidance and advice. One good example of this approach is Al-Anon, which views addiction/alcoholism as a family disease, and views family members as “enablers” and “codependents.” Like all addiction recovery groups…
Along the same lines, you may have heard of “interventions,” in which the family has a little surprise party for their substance abuser, with the aim of shaming him/her into immediate enrollment in an addiction treatment center. That kind of “tough-love”action…
…Addiction is insatiable, and will consume all of any family’s emotional and financial resources, and still demand more. In AVRT-based recovery, families require the addicted member to choose between his addiction and family membership. Accordingly, we heartily endorse the zero-tolerance ultimatum, backed by Plan B, the exact action the family will take when…
Setting the stage for action:
To follow in this article is a clear, 10-point outline to guide your family through… [More inside]
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