List of Addictive Agents

This list itemizes the 18 categories of addictive agents that we seek recovery from. Most of us find ourselves somewhere on this list, and many of us have struggled with many items on this list. Many attendees of Serenity have regained complete freedom from every agent listed below.

  1. Alcohol or drugs (including tobacco).
  2. Work, achievement and success.
  3. Money addictions, such as overspending, gambling or hoarding.
  4. Control addictions, especially if they surface in personal, sexual, family and business relationships.
  5. Food addictions.
  6. Sexual Addictions.
  7. Approval dependency (the need to please people).
  8. Rescuing patterns toward other persons.
  9. Dependency on toxic relationships (relationships that are damaging and hurtful).
  10. Physical illness (hypochondria).
  11. Exercise and physical conditioning.
  12. Cosmetics, clothes, cosmetic surgery, trying to look good on the outside.
  13. Academic pursuits and excessive intellectualizing.
  14. Religiosity or religious legalism (preoccupation with the form and the rules and regulations of religion, rather than benefiting from the real spiritual message).
  15. General perfectionism.
  16. Cleaning and avoiding contamination and other obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
  17. Organizing, structuring (the need always to have everything in its place).
  18. Materialism.

If you struggle with any item(s) on this list, we believe Serenity is right for you. Consider yourself more than welcome to join our fellowship.