The Game of Sobriety

Dederick invented the game by mixing AA's teachings with shit he vaguely remembered about psychiatry from articles he'd read and a buddy. The core of his philosophy was to fix people with tough love, to make them comfortable by first making them very uncomfortable. Over time, he developed a catchphrase, which he used to greet addicts on their first morning in the house. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. He's the one who invented that. How weird? Yeah. And it's, you can see there's both a very optimistic recovery angle to that. But also that can be very culty.