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It is likely that addiction has touched your life in some capacity, either personally or with someone you know. This is certainly true for me. My darling departed brother was a recovered alcoholic and I remember him mentioning the dismal statistics that Alcoholic Anonymous cited. That number is up for debate, but whichever way you look at it, it’s not great.
Perhaps there’s another way. A path that relies less on will power and more on leaning into our true nature of innate health and well-being. In episode 2 I had a conversation about this with Greg Suchy, and today I talk to his co-host of the Addiction, Alcoholism and the Three Principles webinar series, Harry Derbitsky.
Harry Derbitsky’s book Evolution of Addiction Recovery is out now and has testimonials from psychiatrist Dr. Bill Pettit and psychologist Dr. Amy Johnson. This unique offering by an early student of Sydney Banks provides a roadmap to the spiritual and psychological nature of the Three Principles for addiction recovery.
It includes indigenous or native American chapters and is available at Amazon and in certain bookstores. Harry and recovery coach Greg Suchy co-host the bi-monthly webinar and YouTube series called Addiction, Alcoholism and the Three Principles.
You can find Harry at ACTTraining.biz
You can listen above or on iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Below are the show highlights and full transcript.
Show Notes
- How Syd Banks defined jumping the boundaries of time
- Why the 3 Principles appeal to those looking for a spiritual-psychological answer about addiction
- How the field of addiction recovery is evolving
- On the involvement of insight in addiction recovery for those like Bill W.
- The restriction to mental health of labeling oneself as having a disease
- How the Three Principles work as a health model, rather than a disease model
