When Recovery Feels Like Trauma All Over Again

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]and I can be very frank and say if that was the only option available to me, I would've preferred to sit and drink.

[00:00:05]Yeah.

[00:00:06]Because the way I'm wired, don't sit me in the basement of a church, A, trauma bit for somebody like me.

[00:00:12]With a bunch of men.

[00:00:13]W- sitting there being angry and telling me how worthless I am.

[00:00:16]Do you know where I came from?

[00:00:18]Now I'm in a church basement once again being told I'm a piece of shit, worthless individual.

[00:00:22]Well, and I never w- in, uh, any AA meetings I went to, I never watched them do the Back to Basics.

[00:00:28]Right.

[00:00:28]I never heard about it.

[00:00:30]I've never, I never even knew that existed until here- Right... when I did the Back to Basics.

[00:00:33]I didn't know that was a thing.

[00:00:35]Yeah.

[00:00:35]Nobody- And that's how they're meant to be done.

[00:00:37]Nobody should be on step four for a year.