I think Jack would need an exceptionally talented therapist. I strongly suspect she's astute enough to parrot what someone making progress should be saying. She's lying to herself as much as anyone else. All her AA speak rings hollow- it's just someone parroting what they think someone who had completed and fully understood a step would say.
Yes to all of this.
I’m fortunate enough to say I haven’t much of a clue about AA other than what fraus have been kind enough to share on here, but I believe this. I’ve felt a bit like it isn’t my place to say she isn’t sober because I don’t have those issues, addictions or awareness’s. However I truly don’t think she is living the life of someone who’s actively engaged in AA for the right reasons.
i have a friend who’s in AA. He is active AF, he is immersed in the 12 steps, he reads his book every day, he is a sponsor for someone, he shares little daily photos from his AA book (I’m sorry I don’t know what the book is called, but it has quite a meaningful passage for every day of the year) on his Instagram stories. He is into it.
he also drinks 0% lager if he is out. I don’t believe this means he isn’t sober. He is leading the life one would expect to see as an outsider. It isn’t for me to say how someone lives their lives, but she might be alcohol free but she is not sober, she is not engaged in the programme based on my limited experience of seeing someone who is, she is a blowhard Bragger who actually tweeted to half a million people that attendance at meetings increases on the basis of her bringing biscuits.
ETA: this smacks of someone with no awareness of the crisis points people get to before going to a meeting. Even I know that. I don’t think anyone is thinking ‘the meetings are anonymous, but I think I seen Jack Monroe going in there. I’m going to pretend to have a drink problem so I can go and get a biscuit off her’
How else does this make sense?
she’s got so much going on there. I don’t even think a therapist would know where to begin.