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Hi! My name is Scottie G, and I'm the Founder of All Addictions Anonymous.
I'd like to schedule a call with you to discuss your addiction, and what you will need to recover from it. By the time you finish your hour with me, you'll have a much better idea of what is driving your addiction(s), and how to start your recovery.
We perform this work for free during our spare time. Because of that, the appointment times we have available are not flexible.
If you know that the time is now for you to tackle your addiction, go head and click the blue button.
Give us 60 minutes, and we'll give you a plan to be addiction free.
I'd like to schedule a call with you to discuss your addiction, and what you will need to recover from it. By the time you finish your hour with me, you'll have a much better idea of what is driving your addiction(s), and how to start your recovery.
We perform this work for free during our spare time. Because of that, the appointment times we have available are not flexible.
If you know that the time is now for you to tackle your addiction, go head and click the blue button.
Give us 60 minutes, and we'll give you a plan to be addiction free.
Times have changed, and we needed to change too! So let’s talk about the elephant in the room. If you're even been a member of any sort of 12 step group, I’ve just done 2 things that are probably making you uncomfortable:
- I've taken credit for founding this organization
- I've just broken a number of The 12 Traditions
Because it’s my mission to help, and never to hurt, please read this.
My intent is not to upset you or make you uncomfortable.
But I’ve realized through maintaining my own recovery, that the 12 Steps and the 12 Traditions as they are widely practiced leave some holes in my ability to help my fellow addicts.
Therefore, All Addictions Anonymous is officially no longer a 12 Step fellowship, at least not in the traditional sense. We definitely started there but then came Covid-19.
If you believe that a standard 12-step program is the only way you can recover from your addiction, and stay recovered, I understand, and respect that so much.
And for this reason, we're in the process of creating a page of links to every 12-Step based organization that we know of, so as to help you find something that more closely meets your expectations.
If you’ve made it this far, let’s continue.
This is a decision I’ve been struggling with for a long time. It’s why I originally stepped down from my leadership role at AAA 10 years ago.
I left because the way I do things, the way I help fellow addicts, is not completely honoring of the 12 steps the 12 traditions.
Now, please don’t get me wrong. I love the 12 steps. They saved my life, literally. But the honest truth is that not all addicts respond equally well to the rigid framework contained within the 12 movement.
As I continue to help addicts, free of charge, as part of my own recovery, I’ve found some techniques and tools that while equally effective for some, are outside the traditions and steps.
So, why did I start AAA? As part of “Step 12”, I have been working with addicts for free, with the only requirement being their seriousness of recovering.
During that time, I became somewhat known within the community for being able to help addicts that didn’t flourish in 12 programs like I actually did in my past. I started being recommended to people that had different addictions than I did - which gave me the confidence to work with other addicts that didn’t share my addiction.
And what I found was wonderful. The things we have in common as human beings, addicts and not, are far greater than the things that separate us.
So after working with many other addicts, I started All Addictions Anonymous.
When I started, I was affiliated with the larger community of 12 step programs.
But as I helped more and more addicts, I found that more and more often I was getting great results with things that did not adhere to the structure.
So I left AAA in the hands of its board of directors, and stepped down.
Why?
Because of the traditions. I took some serious flack from people in the 12 step community. One reason was the anonymity. I learned from an old timer, very early in my recovery, that the most important thing the 12 steps could teach you was “to thine own self be true”.
Anonymity was difficult for me. I was a successful businessperson, and I am known. I felt dishonest for not using my picture and full name since everyone knew me anyway.
So, rather than buck the system, I stepped down, feeling that I was honoring the 12 steps and 12 traditions that helped me recover from my addictions.
When I still led the organization, and in the first years after I stepped down, AAA grew all by itself. This idea that we could help people with many different addictions drew affiliations from all over the world.
1. Covid-19 resulted in more than 10x the number of people coming to our website asking for help.
2. None of their inquiries were answered or even acknowledged because we've had no volunteers monitoring our website for more than 5 years!
Even though no one had been answering the people coming to AAA for help, people still kept coming, their requests unanswered.
But still, I didn’t want to step up again, because I was worried about what the 12 step communities would say.
How could I come back to the organization I started without betraying it’s 12 step roots?
Then, as I watched, with no promotion whatsoever, more and more people were coming to the website site, and not getting any help from anyone because the volunteers had been gone for over 5 years.
Then Covid-19 hit, and the requests skyrocketed. All the 12 step meetings in churches were cancelled. It was so much harder to find and connect with "a sponsor" because the 12 step community can’t even tell you who you are going to talk to because of the anonymity rule.
And still, my heart was breaking because of all the people coming to us, desperate for help.
Because I stepped away to honor myself and the traditions, but I couldn’t stay away any longer. I could no longer watch so many people, in such need and desperation, receive no help.
So I recently made the decision to disaffiliate AAA from the 12 step community. So that I could serve in my way, without any rules to follow, and fewer addicts would be left without the help they so desperately need.
All Addictions Anonymous is no longer just another 12 step fellowship. And we are helping addicts, regardless of addiction, completely for free.
Honoring the spirit of Step 12 is definitely one tradition we can easily keep.
If you know anything about the 12 steps, you’ll know that Step 12 is said to be about “having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others”.
Even after I stepped down from AAA 10 years ago, I continued to help addicts, before my regular business hours, with never any charge. As I am now doing once again with AAA.
For me, it was Step 12 that not only maintained my recovery.
It's what changed my life. Not admitting to the things I had done, though I did that. Not going to meetings, though I did that. It was helping other addicts that kept me addiction free.
And once again I am able to help addicts under the aegis of All Addictions Anonymous.
Who can we help?
If any of this applies to you:
Because of the traditions. I took some serious flack from people in the 12 step community. One reason was the anonymity. I learned from an old timer, very early in my recovery, that the most important thing the 12 steps could teach you was “to thine own self be true”.
Anonymity was difficult for me. I was a successful businessperson, and I am known. I felt dishonest for not using my picture and full name since everyone knew me anyway.
So, rather than buck the system, I stepped down, feeling that I was honoring the 12 steps and 12 traditions that helped me recover from my addictions.
When I still led the organization, and in the first years after I stepped down, AAA grew all by itself. This idea that we could help people with many different addictions drew affiliations from all over the world.
1. Covid-19 resulted in more than 10x the number of people coming to our website asking for help.
2. None of their inquiries were answered or even acknowledged because we've had no volunteers monitoring our website for more than 5 years!
Even though no one had been answering the people coming to AAA for help, people still kept coming, their requests unanswered.
But still, I didn’t want to step up again, because I was worried about what the 12 step communities would say.
How could I come back to the organization I started without betraying it’s 12 step roots?
Then, as I watched, with no promotion whatsoever, more and more people were coming to the website site, and not getting any help from anyone because the volunteers had been gone for over 5 years.
Then Covid-19 hit, and the requests skyrocketed. All the 12 step meetings in churches were cancelled. It was so much harder to find and connect with "a sponsor" because the 12 step community can’t even tell you who you are going to talk to because of the anonymity rule.
And still, my heart was breaking because of all the people coming to us, desperate for help.
Because I stepped away to honor myself and the traditions, but I couldn’t stay away any longer. I could no longer watch so many people, in such need and desperation, receive no help.
So I recently made the decision to disaffiliate AAA from the 12 step community. So that I could serve in my way, without any rules to follow, and fewer addicts would be left without the help they so desperately need.
All Addictions Anonymous is no longer just another 12 step fellowship. And we are helping addicts, regardless of addiction, completely for free.
Honoring the spirit of Step 12 is definitely one tradition we can easily keep.
If you know anything about the 12 steps, you’ll know that Step 12 is said to be about “having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others”.
Even after I stepped down from AAA 10 years ago, I continued to help addicts, before my regular business hours, with never any charge. As I am now doing once again with AAA.
For me, it was Step 12 that not only maintained my recovery.
It's what changed my life. Not admitting to the things I had done, though I did that. Not going to meetings, though I did that. It was helping other addicts that kept me addiction free.
And once again I am able to help addicts under the aegis of All Addictions Anonymous.
Who can we help?
If any of this applies to you:
- You “must” attend frequent meetings to beat your addiction. If you live in a small town, you can’t stay anonymous. And in the time of Covid-19, you can’t meet in a group at all. Does that mean recover is impossible? No.
- Your addiction is uncommon in your area so there is no established community around it? You can be addicted to anything, but there is not unlimited 12 step communities. AAA can help you regardless of your addiction.
- You have to publicly admit to your addiction. What if your addiction is something that you cannot make public, like a sex addict that is addicted to children? Sex addict communities are available in large cities, but there is nothing nothing in small towns. Do these addicts not deserve a chance to improve their life, and the world around them by recovering?
- That you can have no opinions on outside issues so that the community is not drawn into conflict or controversy. This was always a problem for me. Again, to thine own self be true.
- That your group can only use attraction, and not promotion. If I was still limited by the steps and the traditions, I could not have provided that page of links to other 12-step programs.
- That you must conform and turn your life over to a Higher Power.
These are only a few of the reasons why limiting our ability to help addicts cannot be limited by the old beliefs.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, the basis of all 12-step programs, was written in 1939. Millions of lives have been saved by the contents of that book. But the 12-step community is afraid that making any changes to the Big Book with the passage of time will help fewer addicts, not more.
For me, everything is about my need to carry the message to any addict that still suffers.
I knew what my motives are, and nothing else matters to me.
I want to be able to help people my way since no one else is helping them otherwise. But I want to do it with minimum upset and controversy.
And that is why All Addictions Anonymous is no longer a 12 step affiliated organization.
Regardless of your addiction you’re welcome to come here, so that you can have a spiritual experience due to the spirit of the 12 steps, as they are written in the Big Book, not necessarily as they are practiced by most people in the community
I’m attached far more to results than I am to history or traditions.
I moved away from the traditions because they are no longer my only truth. I don’t’ have all the answers, all I know is that people are desperately reaching out for help more than ever because of Covid-19, and they aren’t getting it, until now!
If you;re suffering, we will talk to you, and we will help you absolutely for free.
Give us 60 minutes, and we’ll give you a custom plan for your recovery.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, the basis of all 12-step programs, was written in 1939. Millions of lives have been saved by the contents of that book. But the 12-step community is afraid that making any changes to the Big Book with the passage of time will help fewer addicts, not more.
For me, everything is about my need to carry the message to any addict that still suffers.
I knew what my motives are, and nothing else matters to me.
I want to be able to help people my way since no one else is helping them otherwise. But I want to do it with minimum upset and controversy.
And that is why All Addictions Anonymous is no longer a 12 step affiliated organization.
Regardless of your addiction you’re welcome to come here, so that you can have a spiritual experience due to the spirit of the 12 steps, as they are written in the Big Book, not necessarily as they are practiced by most people in the community
I’m attached far more to results than I am to history or traditions.
I moved away from the traditions because they are no longer my only truth. I don’t’ have all the answers, all I know is that people are desperately reaching out for help more than ever because of Covid-19, and they aren’t getting it, until now!
If you;re suffering, we will talk to you, and we will help you absolutely for free.
Give us 60 minutes, and we’ll give you a custom plan for your recovery.
IF YOU'RE MORE COMFORTABLE SPEAKING WITH A WOMAN...
If you're more comfortable speaking with a woman, or if my schedule is packed and your situation is more urgent, one of our past Trustees and Board Members, Sameena Fernandes, has accepted my request to volunteer her time during Covid-19. Her calendar is immediately below.