Dr. Keith Humphreys

Genes are risk.

They're not destiny.

And that's very important.

Even if you come from, you know, a hundred generations worth, that doesn't mean that your life is necessarily going to come out that way.

And you're raising another point, too, about what is beautiful for a lot of people about recovery is then you start acquiring more reasons not to use that you didn't have at the moment you started because you'd

you burn those relationships out or you'd never form them because you have been living in your mom's basement smoking cannabis and being online all day.

And then you start to get like, wow, having a job where I'm respected and I feel important is nice.

Getting paid is nice.

You know, being mentally present, you know, instead of high all the time is nice.

And then it just makes it easier month by month, year by year to just live the rest of your life that way.

That is what AA asks.

I mean, one of the expressions is your best thinking got you here.

And another one was keep it simple.

Like you don't have to do a philosophical critique of the 12 steps.

You just have to don't drink, go to meetings.

Don't drink, go to meetings.

And it is an action program.

So it's different in that sense from a lot of –

psychotherapy styles which are, you know, more intellectual and analytical, you know, and less focused on you're actually going to do certain behaviors.

And so if you dislike that, yeah, I can see why AA would bother you.