The real consequence of how we view addiction

Maybe it's not the person that's fucked up. Maybe it's everything else.

When I started out with my Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) series, Outside The Rooms, in February of this year, my intention was to have a real conversation about AA and share my own experience inside and outside of the rooms. The impetus was to share my story exactly as it was so that individuals who come to this site can get a full perspective on the belief system that feeds Hip Sobriety, and to be a voice for those who had come to similar conclusions that I had, or a voice for those who needed to come to their own conclusions minus the debate and rhetoric that typically accompanies such conversations (see the comments section of  my recent post on xoJane or the comments section on any article posted to The Fix that dares to talk about AA).

I walked into this series with a grand vision and most of it written in my head before I started. But as I sat on vacation in Hawaii in late February, some three pieces published and three more in queue, I started to question if perhaps I had missed the…