AVRT: The Class

(By reservation only. Call 530-621-2667)

AVRT: The Class is two full days of face-to-face instruction on AVRT-based recovery. The purpose is to achieve secure, permanent abstinence (total recovery) within the time allotted. In those two decisive days, I will guide you across the threshold into life after addiction and recovery.

AVRT: The Class is strong action against addiction, often at a time of crisis and emotional turmoil. Direct instruction cuts through the fog which accompainies addiction, allowing you to immediately seize control and enjoy the freedom of self-determination.

We highly recommend that your spouse, another family member, or significant other sit in on the entire two-day session. Sometimes entire families attend, to witness what is said and done, and in recognition of the significance of the occasion. The session becomes a major event in your family’s history, setting  the standard of zero-tolerance as a condition of family life and restoration of trust.

AVRT: The Class is an uplifting experience with little, if any, self-disclosure, discussion of your past, or searching for your personal hangups and shortcomings. Your session will not exceed 5 participants, including yourself, so you‘ll get plenty of individual attention, and possibly observe others also learning AVRT-based recovery. You’ll have every opportunity to ask clarifying questions so that AVRT® makes perfect sense. We provide a copy of Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction, plus a wide variety of other learning materials. 

Pick the earliest two consecutive days you can appear in Northern California for AVRT: The Class (PDF flyer here), and call 530-621-2667 to get registered. We require a non-refundable, $500 deposit for each person planning to attend, which may be placed with a credit card transaction. Then you will receive by email a travel kit with local lodging and restaurants, and exact driving instructions from Sacramento International Airport to the meeting place. Substantial breakfasts and lunches are provided each day.

Between now and when you appear for AVRT: The Class, learn some AVRT® so you are somewhat familiar with concepts such as Addictive Voice, Beast, and Big Plan. Here is your introduction to AVRT-based recovery. 

By taking strong, decisive action now, you may return home from Northern California fully confident that your addiction is ended, over, finished, kaput, defeated. If you can imagine your relief to know you are fully recovered, you should take that image as your hope that your addiction is nearly over.

Finding this website may have been the luckiest find of your life. We have been offering this service for twenty years, and the content keeps getting more potent, more sophisticated, more effective. After all of your struggles against your addiction, you now have full access to all of the information you have desperately needed for many years. We hope you are ready for a very short journey to life after addiction — and the rest of your life after recovery, too!

Your Beast will not survive the trip, and you’ll return home as you were before the onset of your addiction. You must be fully detoxified from alcohol and other drugs when you appear for AVRT: The Course.

Below are some further comments and information about AVRT-based recovery. I look forward to hearing from you.

Jack Trimpey
530-621-2667

Is There and Addict in Your Family?

Families of addiction

Recovery groups (AA/NA and Al-Anon) are part of the problem faced by addicted people and their families. Those organizations are based upon the beliefs and values of addicted people — not those of recovered people, nor those of families. It seems strange to say that neither recovery groupers nor addiction counselors know anything about addiction recovery, but let’s face it – they haven’t defeated their own addictions themselves. They’re in recovery, “sober” just one-day-at-a-time, engaging newcomers  in endless recoveryism. They provide no information or guidance on how to quit an addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Recovery groups foster unwholesome dependence on individuals of doubtful character and upon the group itself. 

Exploiting family conflict
Just at the time when the addicted family member is experiencing the natural, painful consequences of addiction, including the family’s anger and withdrawal of affection and support, the recovery group steps in to provide acceptance, affection, emotional support, and very often sex  — without any standards or pre-conditions. The group then further alienates the newcomer from his family with the disease stigma, “Your family will never understand you because of your disease — unless they are in recovery themselves.” The family is led to believe that recovery groups are vitally necessary for the addict’s and family’s survival, even though recovery doctrines vigorously contradict family values, including the family’s religious faith. Recovery groups intercept the addict at a time of high vulnerability, creating an alternate, competing, primary attachment which claims the addict’s highest loyalty, “My recovery comes first.”

If you have an addicted spouse, sibling, parent, or offspring, AVRT® is your shield against him or her. AVRT® is also your protection against the home invasion of recoveryism, in which common sense and family values are sacrificed to the inverted beliefs of group recoveryism. That’s right, your first responsibility is to protect yourself against your addicted family member. It’s obvious you can’t stop your intimate enemy from drinking/using, and eviction may be an enormous hassle, but you can certainly force the choice between addiction and family membership. Get the wheels turning now for family-centered (AVRT-based) recovery.

You will find nothing new in AVRT®, which is a summary of universal family values, your family values, your ancestral heritage of beliefs and traditions that favored their survival so that you could enter the world.  This is your return to the authentic ways of your own flesh and blood, untainted by the unwholesome and destructive influences of American culture and our disease-oriented social service system.

What is AVRT?
AVRT stands for Addictive Voice Recognition Technique, a simple thinking skill that results in immediate, total recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. AVRT is as old as the hills; it’s how people naturally, independently quit addictions of all kinds, as people have done for thousands of years. It’s commonplace for people to quit gambling when they’ve lost enough, quit smoking when the results are scary enough, quit promiscuity when family life is threatened, and quit drinking/using when the results are finally too painful. AVRT is based upon universal family values, just like your own.

What is addiction?

Addiction is the use of alcohol and other drugs against one’s own better judgment. Nothing else. If you don’t think you have a drinking/using problem, then you aren’t addicted, and have no good reason to quit. If you feel both ways, in a love-hate relationship with alcohol and other drugs, then you’re addicted, of two minds about drinking/using, and afraid you will end up where you’re headed. You want very much to quit, not one-day-at-a-time, but for life. The good news: You need only some vital information and encourgement to cross the finish line.

What is recovery?
Addiction recovery is secure, permanent abstinence. Nothing else. No issues, no shrinks, no groups, no rehabs. You just quit, then learn the ability to stick to that decision under all conditions. Then, you create a life of your own choosing. If you can imagine how good you would feel to know your addiction is over, that your life is your own once again, that you are safe from yourself, trust those feelings. They are hope itself, to light your way to life after recovery. If you imagine that abstinence will bring bad feelings such as boredom, emptiness, and despair, you are feeling your addiction’s fury, struggling to survive.

Addicted people can see it both ways, and act on their own hope rather than upon the hopelessness of addiction. By attending AVRT: The Class, you can have it all laid out for you, in very simple terms anyone can understand, and you’ll then make a personal commitment to lifetime abstinence, one you can believe in.

You may be thinking, “How simple; how true!” You may be realizing that if you had been told the truth about addiction and recovery, you would have snapped out of your stupid streak long ago. Here is a PDF containing informed consent to recovery group participation and addiction treatment services, information that has been suppressed by our social service system. This PDF will give you a solid foundation for independent recovery.

You can begin your AVRT-based recovery right now, and be totally recovered (permanently abstinent!) long before the end of this month. There is nothing to stop you — except the voice in your head that tells you this is too good to be true. Take the Crash Course on AVRT and if you have any nagging doubt about success or consume any amount of alcohol or other drug, call immediately to get registered for AVRT: The Class. 

Your Addictive Voice, attacks your self-confidence and contradicts your better judgment across the board, as in these examples:

• Remember how odd the disease concept of addiction sounded to you at first? That was your better judgment, and you were right! Very few scientists or physicians believe that addiction is or is caused by a disease. The disease concept of addiction is an article of faith.
• You probably knew early on in your addiction that eventually you would have to quit drinking/using altogether, and that only you can choose to use or not use. Remember how strange “one-day-at-a-time sobriety” sounded to you at first? That, also, was your better judgment, and you were right! One-day-at-a-time is the worst possible way to quit something you love, deep down.
• Remember your first recovery group meeting? All you wanted was to learn how to quit drinking/using, but what you got was a “new family” of troubled people giving you a new religion in which you are powerless over your bodily desires. It seemed like an upside-down religion. Once again, your better judgment kicked in.

Sadly, we live in a society that does not believe in you, offers no encouragement that you can defeat your addiction independently. Our social service system offers no information at all on how addicted people normally and naturally quit their addictions — without groups, shrinks, and rehabs. Many therapists even tempt you with the death-defying goal of “moderation,” and Rational Recovery exists to guide you through the decision making process leading to total recovery in as short a time as you choose.

In fact, “Rational Recovery” refers to that vast majority of seriously addicted people who finally get fed up with the outcome of drinking/using and find within themselves the ability to abstain under all conditions, effortlessly, and for life! According to all research, which even AA acknowledges, we far outnumber the membership of recovery groups. We defeated our own addictions, and I can teach you exactly how it is done.

Who is Jack Trimpey?
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California, with decades of experience in community mental health, plus twenty years with Rational Recovery. Since 1986, Lois and I have pioneered great changes in the addictions field, and our famous name, Rational Recovery®, is often cited in textbooks and general references on addiction and recovery.

I am enough of a professional to know there is no “treatment” for stupidity. The counseling professions have erred tragically by embracing the disease concept of addiction, and are collectively guilty of suppressing informed consent to the services they provide. In my specialty of addiction recovery, my strongest credential is my PhD (Phormer Drunk), the one that allows me to see through the eyes of addiction as well as from the human viewpoint. The clinical viewpoint shows addiction through the eyes of the addicted client, as a disease specimen, and not from the viewpoint of the real experts, independently recovered people. Through the lens of AVRT®, it’s a fine view, with great hope for all addicted people who are willing to accept full personal responsibility for the act of self-intoxication.

I look forward to meeting you and a family member very soon, when we will take an urgent shortcut to life after recovery!