I decided those are the 2 classes I am taking this week while I am on a week off from school. I had a weekend of decompression and detoxed from media use first. Yesterday I was still really tired but I am excited to start today. I ended up planning a very intentional anolog week with the exception of these 2 classes. lol Looking forward to the classes. Thank you. It’s amazing how easy it is to unplug once my phone is in assistive mode. Far more intentional use of my time and focus. 🩷🙌

@Gianmichael Salvato the first couple days I was tired. Before starting I made a list of analog activities. I knew the minute I wasn’t pairing media with every activity of the day I would be“bored” and forget all the things I could possibly be doing. My brain still often thinks about watching a youtube video or looking up something or planning. Planning and talking about homeschool is banned until Saturday. lol

Perfect way to start the day!

Me. It’s been going slow but I am enjoying it. Mostly it’s slow because my brain has a hard time taking in information the first time it’s heard and sometime I forget to check of a class complete and end up listen to the same class 3 times. Which is fine because I likely need it but again I am slow. lol

@Gianmichael Salvato I am considering spending as much time planning a curriculum for myself as they do planning a curriculum for my kids. That way I’d be more likely to complete things in a manner in which I felt satisfied with. All of the impending guilt is my own due to my own expectations, but I take the classes and I read books with no actual plan for myself when I set up a book for my kids. I break it down into lessons for the week for readings per day so that we reach our goals. Not saying I’m gonna do it, but I’m sure thinking about it.

This was a good read. While I can’t say I experienced 12 step quite the same way I can definitely agree with the thinking. I have my own reasons for thinking it’s a cult. I think the only reason I don’t agree with all your points is because my personal experiences were different and I was mostly in NA and only used NA literature. That being said, my primary thought is still the same - the fellowship creates dependency, it manipulates you into acts of service (to relieve the guilt it creates and the guilt you came with that it keeps enforcing), it takes away autonomy, and leaves you with the narrative that your best thinking was and is shit. They underwhelming stress the importance of outside and professional help. I often felt like it’s mention more or less as a disclaimer to cover their asses as a corporation. In addition by doing this they stunt the growth of the persons recovering. There are many sick people celebrating clean time; the idea that because of their clean time their sharing or sponsoring carries weight is gross. My spouse still attends meetings. I stopped going to support him because we have children now and I will not bring them into meetings. They have no business being there. And I do not trust who is there. It concerns me this is where my spouse gets support. Principals before personalities means ignore predators and predatory behavior in a room because they have a right to be there. Also gross. I could go on.

@Gianmichael Salvato fair enough. Lol there’s a long laundry list of bs to call out for cult behaviour in both so it’s impossible to name them all.

I can’t find it 😩 It doesn’t seem to be available in the classroom. Help! lol

@Gianmichael Salvato that’s got to be what it was because I see it now. Lol thank you.