Facing Transgressions Helps Addicts Take Responsibility for the Past

One of the strengths of the Narconon program is the method that it uses to help its students face the transgressions they have committed in their past.

This is a necessary step for anyone who has had a drug or alcohol problem and is recognized by other treatment modalities, as well. However, close examination of how the process works in the Narconon program demonstrates that its procedure is especially comprehensive in recognizing individual transgressions and in finding relief from one’s guilt by handling the issues more thoroughly.

Here are some comments that students have made about this section of the Narconon treatment program:

“While doing the Narconon program, I learned why I kept doing the same things over and over again. I also learned why certain people behave the way they do. The most important thing that I gained from this experience was taking responsibility for the transgressions I have made. I now feel great relief.”

N.S.—Narconon Student

“While writing and disclosing some of my transgressions, I felt I was pulled out of present time. It sent me back to what happened. I got upset and felt lost, but I kept writing. I wrote down everything I could remember and literally felt the upset diminish. I do not have any upset anymore and realize that I am responsible for those acts and I know that I am not going to do them anymore. I feel more responsible and feel better than I have in a long time. I am ready to make it up to people that I hurt, including myself.

“After writing up transgressions against my family, I realized that I can now look my family members in the eye and be around them comfortably without drugs and without shame. I have a fresh start with them now and I’m ready to let them be part of my life and to rebuild trust with them.”

M.S.—Narconon Student

“I feel great about myself and am ready to make it up to my family and to have healthy relationships.”

“While writing up my transgressions against family and others with whom I have relationships, I found myself taking responsibility for things I had justified my whole life. After writing these transgressions and seeing them on paper, I was able to see how dumb and selfish my actions had been.

“I now feel great about myself and have zero reasons to feel guilty. I realize that I am in present time and the person who did those things is not the person I am today. I have no more upset about family and relationships. I feel great about myself and am ready to make it up to my family and to have healthy relationships.”

N.S.—Narconon Student

“Today I completed confronting the transgressions I committed against my family and others.

“I wrote down on paper all the messed-up stuff I did. I knew in my head all the stuff I did but actually writing it down and facing it let me really take responsibility for it all.

“I now feel that I have a clean slate with my family, and starting now, I’ll never again put them through the trouble I did in the past. I feel a big sense of relief in letting all this out. All of this was running through my mind but writing it all down and getting it all out gave me a great sense of relief.

“I feel really good. Ready to start afresh.”

A.R.—Narconon Student

“I finished writing my transgressions. I was not sure how to start at first and after a day or so, I started putting together a timeline. This process was fascinating and incredibly helpful in revealing parts of my life and drug use which I had all but forgotten.

“I feel satisfied with what I have written and relief from having done it.”

L.H.—Narconon Student

“Writing all my transgressions gave me a sense of relief. It felt good to get everything that was running through my mind out and onto paper.

“Once you write it down, you can read it, look at it, and soak it in, and then you feel more able to move on with your life. When it comes to ‘self’ I feel I can in some way have a clean slate, and that feels great. I have been sober for over 4 months and I can honestly say that it feels damn good. I never thought that I would feel this way again, but I do.”

A.R.—Narconon Student