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Ep 126 Hidden Danger in AA Meetings

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Any group that tells you you’ll die if you leave? 🚩 Run for the hills.

In this episode of the Sobriety Bestie Podcast, I dive into the hidden danger in AA meetings — not just shady individuals or mini–cult leaders, but the ideology itself.

📖 Inspired by Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey, we’ll unpack his concept of Recovery Group Disorder (RGD) — the compulsive dependency on recovery meetings that looks and feels a lot like addiction itself.

Rational Recovery book: https://amzn.to/47AyGlh

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro — hidden dangers in AA

01:14 What is “Recovery Group Disorder”?

03:06 Are recovery meetings required?

05:55 Expanded definition of RGD

08:08 Problems AA creates in identity + thinking

10:40 How AA builds dependency

14:28 Moving on with life

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