Ep 160 Reclaiming Gratitude After Leaving AA

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

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🧰 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.