AVRT: The Course
Finding this website may have been the luckiest find of your life. After all of your struggles against your addiction, you now have full access to all of the information you have desperately needed for many years. We hope you are ready for a very short journey to life after addiction — and life after recovery, too!
You are on the fast track to addiction recovery!
Independent recovery is commonplace, far more frequent than by any other approach. You probably know or know of people who once used drugs or drank far more than was good for them. Today, they are normal, healthy people with happy families and active lives. They didn’t go to recovery groups or expensive rehabs; they just got fed up with the results of their addictions and quit drinking/using altogether.
How did they do it? Come to the May 19 - 22, 2008, session of AVRT: The Course in El Dorado Hills, California, and you can not only find out how they did it, but you can actually do the same thing yourself. Rational Recovery has pulled together the lore of independent recovery into a brief, educational format, which makes total recovery entirely possible within those four days of face-to-face instruction.
If you can imagine the joy of knowing that you and your loved ones are safe from you, then you have all it takes to take strong action, right now. My wife, Lois, and I urge you to come to El Dorado Hills for AVRT: The Course, which I will conduct May 19 - 22, 2008. In just four days, I will guide you across the threshold into life after addiction and recovery. Before leaving this page, you can get the flyer here.
I invite you to learn some AVRT today, so you can be in good shape for May 19. Make a safe plan for detox, and then perfect your AVRT skills, so that your addiction will never come back to pull you down again. You may return home on May 22 fully confident that your addiction is ended, over, finished, kaput, defeated. If you can imagine your relief to know you are fully recovered, you should take that image as your hope that your addiction is nearly over. Here is your introduction to AVRT-based recovery.
Is there an addicted person in your family?
If you have an addicted spouse or offspring, AVRT® is your shield against him or her. That’s right, your first responsibility is to protect yourself against the addicted family member. It’s obvious you can’t stop your intimate enemy from drinking/using, and eviction may be an enormous hassle, but you can certainly force the choice between addiction and family membership. Get the wheels turning now for AVRT-based recovery for the entire family. More on this below.
What is AVRT?
AVRT stands for Addictive Voice Recognition Technique, a simple thinking skill that results in immediate, total recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. AVRT is as old as the hills; it’s how people naturally, independently quit addictions of all kinds, as people have done for thousands of years. AVRT is based upon your own native beliefs and original family values. For example, here are a couple of definitions. See if they make sense to you:
What is addiction?
Addiction is the use of alcohol and other drugs against your own better judgment. Nothing else. If you don’t think you have a drinking/using problem, then you aren’t addicted, and have no good reason to quit. If you feel both ways, in a love-hate relationship with alcohol and other drugs, then you’re addicted, of two minds about drinking/using, and afraid you will end up where you’re headed. You want very much to quit, not one-day-at-a-time, but for life. The good news: You need only some vital information and encourgement to cross the finish line.
What is recovery?
Addiction recovery is secure, permanent abstinence. Nothing else. No issues, no shrinks, no groups, no rehabs. You just quit, then learn the ability to stick to that decision under all conditions. Then, you create a life of your own choosing. If you can imagine how good you would feel to know your addiction is over, that your life is your own once again, that you are safe from yourself, trust those feelings. They are hope itself, to light your way to life after recovery. If you imagine bad feelings such as boredom, emptiness, and despair, you are feeling your addiction’s fury, struggling to survive. Addicted people can see it both ways, and act on their own hope rather than upon the hopelessness of addiction.
You may be thinking, “How simple; how true!” You may be realizing that if you had been told the truth about addiction and recovery, you would have snapped out of your stupid streak long ago. Here is a PDF containing informed consent to recovery group participation and addiction treatment services, information that has been suppressed by our social service system. This PDF will give you a solid foundation for independent recovery.
You can begin your AVRT-based recovery right now, and be totally recovered (permanently abstinent!) long before the end of this month. There is nothing to stop you — except the voice in your head that tells you this is too good to be true. That voice, the Addictive Voice, attacks your self-confidence and contradicts your better judgment across the board, as in these examples:
- Remember how odd the disease concept of addiction sounded to you at first? That was your better judgment, and you were right! Very few scientists or physicians believe that addiction is or is caused by a disease. The disease concept of addiction is an article of faith.
- You probably knew early on in your addiction that eventually you would have to quit drinking/using altogether, and that only you can choose to use or not use. Remember how strange “one-day-at-a-time sobriety” sounded to you at first? That, also, was your better judgment, and you were right! One-day-at-a-time is the worst possible way to quit something you love, deep down.
- Remember your first recovery group meeting? All you wanted was to learn how to quit drinking/using, but what you got was a “new family” of troubled people giving you a new religion in which you are powerless over your bodily desires. It seemed like an upside-down religion. Once again, your better judgment kicked in.
Sadly, we live in a society that does not believe in you, offers no encouragement that you can defeat your addiction independently. Our social service system offers no information at all on how addicted people normally and naturally quit their addictions — without groups, shrinks, and rehabs. Many therapists even tempt you with the death-defying goal of “moderation,” and Rational Recovery exists to guide you through the decision making process leading to total recovery in as short a time as you choose.
In fact, “Rational Recovery” refers to that vast majority of seriously addicted people who finally get fed up with the outcome of drinking/using and find within themselves the ability to abstain under all conditions, effortlessly, and for life! According to all research, which even AA acknowledges, we far outnumber the membership of recovery groups. We defeated our own addictions, and I can teach you exactly how it is done.
Families of addiction
As the little ad says above, recovery groups (AA/NA and Al-Anon) are part of the problem faced by addicted people and their families. Those organizations are based upon the beliefs and values of addicted people — not that of recovered people, nor that of families. Neither groupers nor addiction counselors know anything about addiction recovery. They join the addict in endless recoveryism, looking for hidden causes of drinking/using, and they provide no information or guidance on how to quit an addiction to alcohol and other drugs. The best they can hope for is “one-day-at-a-time sobriety,” while spending the rest of one’s days “in recovery.” Recovery groups foster unwholesome dependencies on individuals of doubtful character and upon the group itself. Moreover, recovery doctrines actively corrode family values, including the family’s religious faith.
AVRT® is a summary of universal family values, your family values, your ancestral heritage of beliefs and traditions that favored their survival so that you could enter the world. You will find nothing new in AVRT-based recovery, as you may now discover first-hand in the Crash Course on AVRT® for Families of Addiction. This is your return to the authentic ways of your own flesh and blood, untainted by the unwholesome and destructive influences of American culture and our disease-oriented social service system.
Who is Jack Trimpey?
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, with decades of experience in community mental health, plus twenty years with Rational Recovery. Since 1986, Lois and I have pioneered great changes in the addictions field, and our famous name, Rational Recovery®, is often cited in textbooks and general references on addiction and recovery.
I am enough of a professional to know there is no “treatment” for stupidity. The counseling professions have erred tragically by embracing the disease concept of addiction, and are collectively guilty of suppressing informed consent to the services they provide. In my specialty of addiction recovery, my strongest credential is my PhD (Phormer Drunk), the one that allows me to see through the eyes of addiction as well as from the human viewpoint. The clinical viewpoint shows addiction through the eyes of the addicted client, as a disease specimen, and not from the viewpoint of the real experts, independently recovered people. Through the lens of AVRT®, it’s a fine view, with great hope for all addicted people who are willing to accept full personal responsibility for the act of self-intoxication.
I look forward to meeting you and a family member very soon, when we will take an urgent shortcut to life after recovery!
