There is a lady in Birmingham, AL who runs a 9-12 month women’s recovery center. She started with six paroled convicts and brought them into her home.
She had counselors from NA and AA come in with the original 6 convicts and after sitting in on a few sessions, she kicked them out because she felt like NA and AA gave these folks no hope to ever fully recover.And her vision was that they be fully recovered.
She now houses on average 400 women & 150 children on any given day in a facility housed in a former hospital. Not all of them are addicts or alcoholics, but a large portion of them are. They use the Celebrate Recovery program.
I’m not advocating or attacking either program. My philosophy is that human nature being what is it, people will succeed and fail with both. But I thought she was very interesting as a person. ( I just read her book.)
http://www.loveladycenter.org/Miss_Brenda_and_the_Loveladies.html
I'm just highly suspicious when academics, psychiatrists or atheists go after AA. This lady's program is working for a lot of people, so I say more power to her.