{"id":18,"date":"2023-07-26T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaeldvisger.com\/index.php\/one-page-express\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:06:53","slug":"one-page-express","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaeldvisger.com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-12 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You didn’t fake addiction. Don’t fake<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span> recovery.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
You can buy it on\u00a0Amazon\u00a0– as a companion to the Blue Book, or download it for\u00a0Kindle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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20 years of building and\u00a0fine-tuning and testing have helped form a fully supportive book with chapters carefully organized to fit into the group structure you already have.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Each topic easily covered in an hour or less if combined with traditional 12 step work – or even faster if you’re working individual steps\/traditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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A new approach to a\u00a0traditional system of support<\/strong><\/div>\n

The Anti-Steps creates a treatment program where there wasn’t really one before. The 12 steps are a recovery support system, not a treatment system. Treatment and then recovery is the better way.<\/p>\n

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Reaching a new generation\u00a0of addicts and addictions<\/div>\n

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. Now there is a way to treat before someone “hits bottom”.<\/p>\n

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Steps for all sorts of resistance types for all addicts<\/h4>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Choose the steps you need for your work.<\/h5>\n

The Anti-Steps for other Groups<\/h3>\n
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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.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Anti-12 Step Topics<\/h2>\n
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Everyday we’re working to make the Anti-Steps more attuned to the various needs of addicts in all sorts of addictions.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As more programs, groups, and addicts hear of the Anti-Steps and their efforts are improved in reaching through resistance, the effectiveness of the Anti-Steps becomes more evident.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You’ll Find these steps apply to 12 step support version:<\/h2>\n
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\u25ba Marijuana Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Narcotics\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Nicotine\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Online\u00a0Gamers Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Overeaters\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Pills\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Sex\u00a0Addicts Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Sexaholics\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Sex\u00a0and Love Addicts Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Sexual\u00a0Compulsives Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
\u25ba Gamblers\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u25ba Survivors\u00a0of Incest Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Workaholics\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Clutter Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Co-Dependents\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Crystal\u00a0Meth Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
\u25ba Debtors\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Emotional\u00a0Health Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Emotions\u00a0Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Re-Entry\u00a0(Ex Offender) Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span>
\n\u25ba Food\u00a0Addicts Anonymous<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes, the book is now available!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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You can buy it on\u00a0Amazon<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u00a0– as a companion to the Blue Book, or download it for\u00a0Kindle<\/a><\/u><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Also available through Barnes & Noble<\/a><\/u><\/span> for the\u00a0Nook.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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15 years of building, fine-tuning and testing have helped form a fully supportive book with chapters carefully organized to fit into the group structure you already have.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Each topic easily covered in an hour or less if combined with traditional 12 step work – or even faster if you’re working individual steps\/traditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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It’s all here – saving you the hassle and trial and error of figuring it out – all in an easy to use book!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The key to recovery, staring right at us the whole time: in our addiction.<\/span><\/div>\n
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‘So this whole anti-12 step thing is a joke right? I mean, it can’t be real, it’s just a clever play on words or something?’<\/span><\/div>\n
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NO. It’s VERY real.<\/div>\n
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In fact, what you’ve come across is the most important and fundamental change to the 12 step process since their creation. It’s the update that’s been needed to bring the 12 steps from its roots of treating 40-year-old drunks to the modern need for treating millions of addicts of all types. No more stretching the steps and trying to twist and pull them to fit – with the Anti-12 Steps added to the process we can now reach addicts of all types. A fully working, perfect fit for the need the new world of\u00a0addiction\u00a0is facing.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Why? Why change “what works”?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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Because it doesn’t work. The 12 steps is the best system we have and it’s failing. Failing because too many in the 12 step movement treat it as some sacred text never to be updated, never to be called out for its weak spots. But, if we can’t point out that the success rate is too low for the 12 steps, how do we ever get around to fixing the problem?\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Well, it’s already fixed. Not completely. There’s still more to do. But with the Anti-12 Steps, we have a HUGE start.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Sure, we’ll have to drag much of the 12 step community kicking and screaming into this idea. They’ll fight having to learn\u00a0something new since they are comfortable in their cocoon of being an expert with the current system.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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People resisted using snake venom to treat snake bites. “That’s stupid, it will never work<\/em>“.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
People resisted using a disease to create immunization. “You’re not injecting me with that!<\/em>“<\/span><\/div>\n
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And yet now – it’s the standard. It’s just how we do it. Because, while it sounds crazy,\u00a0it works.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Using the Anti-steps – the actual steps in addiction is the key to breaking through resistance and reaching addicts to get them to the 12 steps a LOT faster than our current outdated methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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But –\u00a0you\u00a0want to know what they are, right? Okay, instead of a long – complex and detailed explanation here’s the simple answer:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The anti-12 steps are the 12 steps reversed.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Yep, that’s the boiled down part of it. That’s how they started. A simple exercise for addicts to review the 12 steps turned out to be a HUGE discovery. One that answers a LOT of questions. But, it’s not until you start working with the Anti-Steps that you see how powerful a tool they are and how deep they can dig into the work of recovery and understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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And what kind of questions do the Anti-12 Steps answer?\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01. Why 12 steps?\u00a0Why\u00a0not 6? Why not 18?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02. How did I become an addict?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03. What does any of the recovery stuff have to do with my addiction?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04. What do I do about this whole “higher power thing”?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05. Am I\u00a0really\u00a0powerless? That just doesn’t seem right.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06. Do I have to do all of the steps?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07. What if I just want to cut back on my use?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08. Do I have to learn a whole new way of living? Seems drastic, doesn’t it?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09. Why do I need meetings?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010. How am I supposed to like life without using when using made me happy?<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011. What about the Traditions? Serenity prayer? 44 questions?<\/div>\n
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Every day millions of people gather in meeting halls, churches, boardrooms, back rooms, and even their own homes, to engage in meetings based on the traditional 12 Steps program. Addicts attend these 12 Step meetings to give them a chance to talk about themselves and learn a process that can help them recover. Every day lives are changed through the practice of this process, and millions have received a new chance because the 12 Steps program can work. The program works because it has universal appeal and when practiced, it gets results.<\/span><\/div>\n
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But some feel disconnected and have no interest in a bunch of people getting together to “whine about their problems”. They read the 12 Steps and don\u2019t see how doing the things in the steps will make their lives better. They start out asking really good questions and end up just being quiet since the responses they get all assumed that they are just being resistant and that the questioning is just their addiction talking. In the past, that may have been true, but with the millions of teens and long-term users now needing support, it\u2019s become evident that a few of the questions are actually genuine and need to be answered. The Anti-12 Steps gives answers to many of those questions.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0The Anti-12 Steps program works best when you see the world with the eyes of an addict. It works for people who wish those “giving me a hard time” would understand “where I\u2019m coming from”. The Anti-12 Steps program talks about exactly where the addict is coming from. We want to address what is actually going on in\u00a0an addict’s\u00a0head, not just what\u00a0should\u00a0be going on in there.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It is time to be honest\u00a0about the reality of fighting addiction. By studying the past, it\u2019s possible to learn more about the now and where the future lies. So, welcome to the present, the past, and hopefully, a new future. It\u2019s time for some reality. You must be honest about yourself and about what you think, even if you don\u2019t want to admit it to others. Read below and see how this sounds:<\/span><\/div>\n
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The basic steps used as the foundation for all the various step systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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