Women for Sobriety

I looked into this organization and I am really impressed. Apparently this organization was started by a women with the intention of helping female alcoholics to recover. She put together a heck of a program that I think was really ahead of it's time.

Women for sobriety advocates the use of affirmations, which is a bit controversial in my opinion. A lot of people don't necessarily believe that these can have such a large impact, but other people swear by them. It is sort of like you either love it or hate it kind of an issue. But even if you do not believe in the power of affirmations this program has a lot to offer.

A big part of the Women for Sobriety program assumes that you drank to mask emotional pain. Some of us probably did not drink for that reason but many of us did. If you did, then the program is designed to teach you how to absolve yourself of guilt and start dealing with that emotional pain in a new way. This is mostly done through affirmations but they also seem to advocate networking with others in their program.

There are some parallels with Alcoholics Anonymous but this seems to get down more to the core of why people drank on an emotional level and attempts to fix how we process and deal with those feelings. Women for sobriety seems to do a really good job at addressing the emotional side of our addiction, perhaps even more so than AA does.

Regardless of your gender I think is worth at least learning about their program and seeing if any of it applies to your life an to your recovery. They have some solid concepts that can really help people to become more independent in their recovery. Check them out!