Resolving Alcoholism with Greg Suchy

When it comes to resolving unwanted habits, the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have become the most popular and widespread approach.

In this conversation, Greg Suchy shares some of his experience with AA and how he transitioned to the 3 Principles approach for dealing with unwanted habits and addictions.

Greg Suchy spent years in the Alcoholics Anonymous program before he found the 3 Principles. Now, he helps others to find the peace of mind that is innate within them that makes addiction unnecessary.

You can find Greg on Facebook.

Show Notes

* Noticing how differently the 3 Principles view addiction and unwanted habits from a program like Alcoholics Anonymous

* On Bill Wilson’s belief in healthy experimentation

* Does peace of mind come from working through the AA steps? Or is it innate?

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

* The Unity Church

* Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book

* Joe Bailey’s book: The Serenity Principle

* Dr. Amy Johnson’s book: The Little Book of Big Change

Transcript of interview with Greg Suchy

Alexandra: Greg Suchy, welcome to Unbroken.

Greg: Thank you, Alexandra. Good to be here.

Alexandra: It’s really nice to see you again.

Why don’t you tell us about your background and how you found the three principles?

Greg: I found myself in recovery for alcohol and other addiction issues back in 2012. And through that whole process of just seeking answers, that didn’t seem to be very easily accessible at the time, I ended up finding a group at a church that I was checking out at the time, a Unity chapel. Unity is more of an open-minded metaphysical church. 

And, so it drew my attention, and I’m checking things out. And they had this new meeting. They just had three principles, didn’t even explain what it was. I felt drawn to it and showed up. This wonderful couple, Bob and Marty, that just seeing a lot of the webinars and whatnot, they just took me in and Bob especially just he pulled me aside and just like dumped all this information on me about how the three principles and how they apply to addiction and all this stuff. 

And I’m sitting here thinking this is way too simple. There has to be more to it. Where are the steps, where are the requirements of how to do this and stuff. It was just so foreign to me the idea that maybe I’m already okay, that was such a foreign idea. Because, in 12 Step programs, it’s all about your disease, you’re always going to be sick, you’ll always be fighting this. 

So this was, at first, it wasn’t much of a relief, just because I was thinking, this is BS. Can’t be that easy, yet simple, but in a very short amount of time, it really started just sinking in of like, a lot of the stuff I’ve experienced at times, when things were going well, and I wasn’t really reaching out to escape.

I’m like, Well, what’s that about? Why is if I’m truly addicted to this thing, and it’s this disease, and something that I’ll always have to fight...