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Deprogram From Limiting Beliefs In 12-Step Recovery
With Sadie Barr
Have you ever heard messages like "you lack personal power" or "you can’t trust yourself" and felt a flinch inside? Our bodies filter for inaccurate information; information that’s not aligned with the essence of who we are. If you feel cringe when you hear something, it’s a good idea to pause and investigate. Trust yourself.
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5 Days
318 students
4.8 stars
12 min / day
Happiness
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This course includes 29 community questions and 12 audio replies from Sadie Barr. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.
4.8 (25)
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Christy
January 12, 2026
Eye opening ; )
STUART
December 28, 2025
There came a point in my development where I had to find what was true for me. It aligned sometimes and didn’t align other times with the words written so many generations ago by Bill W and the old timers. But mostly everything I needed to build my life from the total mayhem I found on the steps. I was not dogmatic and was fortunate to get sober in a small town with a big name full of writers, artists, and musicians where “ God gave us brains to use” was widely practiced by the wiser elders who were my mentors. In 1982 before businessmen began selling sobriety in treatment centers people gave me their numbers. There were four meetings a week; a big book study, a 12 x 12, a participation meeting and a Speaker meeting. The dogma of studying the books like the Bible didn’t work for me but I didn’t fight them either. At the small intimate book studies could interrupt between paragraphs and say Sadie alcoholic and talk about what was just read. Often in disagreement or utter cluelessness in what we were reading, or how to “do” it or “allow” it. My son chose to explore Judaism in his high school to learn about his “Jewish half” and I learned that the Hebrew word Y’israel or son of Israel also means he who struggles with God. I’m so grateful to you for questioning, exploring and sharing this course with me and for your 11th step practice which has become my guided meditation and my 11th step practice, which I often listen to first thing in morning. 🙏🩵 Namaste
Barbara
November 17, 2025
Much needed perspective in this course. I spent many years in Al-Anon and ACOA, and was an addiction treatment center nurse for almost 5 years. I deeply appreciate the value of the 12 steps and how it can be a life-raft for people trying to find a better way of life. But I have also seen how it can keep some folks stuck. For me, I am deeply grateful for that life raft but needed to get off on the other side to continue to grow. I have concerns when some folks turn it into a houseboat and permanent residence. Thanks for sharing your insight and experience. 🙏🏻☯️🌸
sherrie
September 17, 2025
This was very powerful. Thank you!
Ginny
December 10, 2024
Thank you for this course! I am 13 years sober and I am committed to maintaining my sobriety. Nothing good will ever come from me picking up a drink. You have given me new tools to aid in this endeavor and I am grateful. Namaste 🙏💗
Terra
October 19, 2024
Sadie's meditations here on IT were instrumental in helping me establish the current foundations of my meditation practice; I first started using the app in Spring of 2020. Because of the Pandemic, like so many of us, I was separated from the physical component of the Fellowship and I needed additional tools to help me and Sadie's meditations were there for me. When I saw this course description, I was intrigued and entered with an open mind. While I am active in the Program, I do understand and believe that there are many ways to be a human in recovery and I think this will be a helpful tool to many. As a woman, I have bristled at some of the slogans and I also reject that my first thought is flawed or wrong--what about that first thought that I had of "I need help" or "I never want to drink again" or "that man can't be trusted"? Thank you Sadie. 🧡
Fred
June 30, 2024
Great! This course is like a systematic application of loving kindness in two processes: being responsible for your life (it’s ok to be me, it’s great to be me); and healing. Do it with a curious mind, an open heart.
Shannon
June 24, 2024
I found this workshop/course to be empowering. It was the medicine my soul and intellect were requesting, and it came right in time. Thank you.
Ryan
June 20, 2024
This was a powerful and thought provoking course. The meditations were excellent and empowering. The topics of discussion were, as I said, thought provoking. As an addition counselor I have been using some of the topics while running groups and the conversations have been powerful. I recommend this course to anyone who has been in the rooms for a little bit and may be feeling complacent.
Angel
June 17, 2024
An amazing exclamation of personal power!
Michael
June 15, 2024
Thank you for this! After many years of sitting in rooms of recovery I’ve stepped away from the meetings because of some of the things mentioned in this course. Although, I believe AA, NA and other groups are definitely helpful and probably necessary for some, there are certainly other ways of being joyful and at peace while living clean and sober. May all those that seek find! Blessings
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