You didn’t fake addiction – Don’t fake recovery
The Anti-12 Steps
The 12 steps are about recovery, but most addicts don’t come to them in recovery but are still in addiction. They need to be confronted and moved into recovery – which is not a pleasant or delicate process. It’s harsh, cruel, and unpleasant – but to be effective, it can’t be a personal fight with the addict. That’s why you need the Anti-12 steps. It would be best if you had a step-by-step guide to the confrontation that the addict can’t blow off as being a personal attack.
A new approach to
the traditional system of support
Reaching a new generation
of addicts and addictions
As new addictions require support and new types of addicts and ways they express their addiction, the addition of the Anti-Steps helps adapt treatment to meet these new challenges. There is a way to treat before someone “hits bottom.”
Steps for all sorts of resistance
types for all addicts
New Drugs and new ways of using them combine with addicts who are more educated and aware of means to resist treatment. The resulting more powerful addict needs the Anti-Steps to break through these resistance factors.
Years of growing and improving.
12 Anti-Steps and 12 Anti-Traditions.
Versions of the steps, with more added all the time.
Other support topics
It’s not just the Anti-Steps and Anti-Traditions in the book, but other support topics for group and treatment discussion. These topics will further your work to make recovery easier.
The way out turns out to be the opposite of the way in.
Most treatment approaches try to pull the addict along towards a goal of recovery, and most addicts resist the pull. The Anti-Steps use the world the addict already knows to guide them towards recovery, letting them get there through their own momentum and with the very actions that got them into addiction – to guide them out.
Not separate from the 12 steps, but a complete expansion, easier to learn and understand.
Much lower costs, improving the existing program instead of switching to a new and different one.
Easy to understand for new and experienced individuals – from first time in recovery to many years dealing with staying sober.
A clear mirrored process – matching up damaging behaviors to direct solutions and easy conflict control points. Taking the anger and hurt out of challenging a resistant addict.
Choose the steps you need for the addiction you’re confronting.
Regardless of what type of 12-step program you are involved with, there’s a way the Anti-Steps can fit into and support your program and its efforts to reach resistant addicts.
Every day, we’re working to make the Anti-Steps more attuned to the various needs of addicts in all sorts of addictions.
As more programs, groups, and addicts hear of the Anti-Steps and their efforts are improved in reaching past resistance, the effectiveness of the Anti-Steps becomes more evident.
► Workaholics Anonymous
► Clutter Anonymous
► Co-Dependents Anonymous
► Crystal Meth Anonymous
► Emotional Health Anonymous
► Emotions Anonymous
► Re-Entry (Ex Offender) Anonymous
► Food Addicts Anonymous
More for less, saving time and $$
The Anti-steps aren’t separate or detached from the 12-steps. This means it’s less expensive, easier to implement, and uses what’s already there to build a more complete treatment process – saving time and money!
Yes, it is about money (a little)
Free videos, an e-book costing less than $10, and a book for about $20. And more are coming for no or a meager cost. The idea of building and fixing 12-step layers instead of tossing them out means the low expense intended for treatment stays alive.
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New products, step work, and other support content update are coming. With your help, we’ll keep growing and making what we do better for everyone who needs it.
Bigger than just Anti-steps, it’s a whole world of content.
Steps, Traditions, Concepts, Promises, Principles, and more are all part of the Anti-steps, just like they are for the 12-step versions. It’s important to understand that the addiction culture is just as deep and complicated – and has to be understood just as much as the recovery side of things. Only by breaking these elements down and calling them out can we point out the layers of addiction and addict behavior – and help build better coping skills and risk reduction. It’s all there; once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Take it with you, even on your phone!
We’re building guides and videos to help you bring these concepts to your group and treatment program to help others understand the Anti-12 concepts and use them more easily. We’ll strive to make them as accessible as possible, and with your help and feedback, we’ll get them to you in the way you need!
This program isn’t just information for you to use – this is a living project that needs your help and participation. We get better and grow through your suggestions, questions, ideas, and feedback. Helping the Anti-steps is about keeping the treatment active and evolving, ensuring it’s relatable and valuable for years.
Helping 12-step groups and treatment programs
We can help you add the Anti-12 Steps to your current group or program and show you how treatment can reach resistant addicts more effectively, with less long-term training, and with better overall results.
It works in all forms
Developed and tested in adolescent living facilities, then used with methadone patients, and mental health clients also showing addiction issues, the Anti-steps worked in all these environments and more.
It’s not just for AA or NA, but for every place the 12-step process is sound and working to confront addiction. The approach is universal and sheds light on how addicted minds take over a person’s thoughts, replacing them with an entire process – one that needs to be understood and confronted just the right way.
It’s not just the 12 steps, but everything recovery related in the 12 step world.related to recovery in the 12-step 12 Traditions, 12 Promises, 12 Slogans, 12 Principals, 12 Just for Todays . . . All these have an equal and opposite frame in the Anti-12 steps. The entire recovery process has its anti-equivalent, and that form says a lot that can help support recovery when understood.
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