WHY the 12 step program? - Episode 2 - Walking out of a broken identity.

This series is called Why the 12-step program? Daniel gives his life story in seven parts and explains how the 12-step program helped him in his journey into recovery from the start of his remission thought to today. He talks about his childhood, teenage years, to adulthood in his life story. He elaborates on his personal experiences as a child and how circumstance, experience and trauma had determined a road map for the next part of his life. Today Daniel is on a new recovery road map, but as you will hear he has faced all the things that have warped his understanding of what he thought love was, acceptance, and abandonment, through to today where he speaks freely about those experiences and realises who he was intended to be. He has realised his shame, guilt and anger through forgiveness and being forgiven, he has restored his truth and no longer lives the lie that controlled him. He has started to love himself for the person he has become and understands the triggers that might and could cause him to relapse. Danial has given all the glory to his Higher Power, that being Jesus Christ, and the new way of life he has discovered in the 12-step program of recovery in Narcotics Anonymous and now lives a life free from the day-to-day grip of active addiction that was slowly killing him mentally, physically and spiritually leading to his inevitable death had he not made the decision to stop.