The Critical Alignment Model must be the most surprisingly helpful program to those suffering from porn addiction. It was originally designed as a coaching model with the goal of assisting business owners in increasing their profitability and working successfully within specific constraints and without compromising their values. I’m not sure WHY I chose to tweak it somewhat to make it one of the most successful coaching recovery models I’ve ever used so far. But maybe because it does make a lot of sense.
For the rest of our lives, we can live free from the shackles of any addiction if we can create an environment that forces us to behave according to our values, beliefs, principles, and adhere to actions and activities that protect this environment from being tarnished or ruined and involve the right people who assist us during this difficult journey of undesirable addictions. The critical alignment model is all about this. Living according to your values.
The following blog post was emailed to me by a client who participated in the C.A.M prior to Ramadan and has since maintained sobriety with Allah’s help. I’m sharing his insights in the hope that you, too, will immediately begin your recovery journey without a delay.
Testimony by: Recovered porn addict. J.Me.BD. 14.3.2022
Last year, it was 36 days before the beginning of Ramadan. Although I knew I had to make a change, my fear was compounded by the fact that my previous attempts had ended in failure. When I try to do what I know is beneficial, I end myself going back to the same old habit because of my lack of consistency.
When I try to do what I know is beneficial, I end myself going back to the same old habit because of my lack of consistency.
Then a friend of mine posted a video link of Mufti Menk praising Wael Ibrahim’s methods for assisting individuals to overcome their porn addictions. In light of my faith in Mufti Menk‘s guidance and wisdom, I began my search for Wael and what he has to offer. I was not disappointed.
I contacted him, and he walked me through his signature program, Critical Alignment Model. And it made sense immediately
As part of the Aware Academy’s Critical Alignment Model Recovery Program, known as C.A.M. (reminding me that we are all being watched and monitored by Allah SWT, hence the came/camera), we simply focus on aligning four areas of our lives with our values and beliefs, thus the name Critical Alignment Model. We learn how to design or redesign our environment in order to make it more conducive to Allah’s SWT-pleasing actions; we structure our lives with the intention of protecting our environment; we then master the art of implementing strategies necessary for our sobriety; and finally, we count on the assistance of trusted individuals who will help us throughout the journey of recovering from this difficult addiction.
Then it hits me: “Ramadan is coming up in about a month, and during this month, my behaviors and actions typically shift to the better. I can take advantage of this opportunity to quit pornography once and for all.” The C.A.M program is centered on maintaining a healthy lifestyle characterized by positive habits that are capable of ending the cycle of addiction. So to kick off the program prior to Ramadan was the perfect and ideal way to begin this journey.
“Ramadan is coming up in about a month, and during this month, my behaviors and actions typically shift to the better. I can take advantage of this opportunity to quit pornography once and for all.”
Then I got myself enrolled. My recovery program included once a week meetings with Wael throughout the month of Sha’ban last year, and Alhamdulilah, I didn’t relapse during that time. When Ramadan came around, I didn’t relapse or even think about pornography for the entire month, and I then maintained my environment, structure, implementation of strategies, and people in my circles who became my support system in this struggle, and I am now nearly TWO YEARS clean and sober.
It’s incredible how Ramadan can bring so many blessings, and for me, and probably for you as well, recovery from porn addiction was unquestionably one of these blessings.
I would want to express my gratitude to Allah SWT first and foremost, and then to Br. Wael and the Aware Academy for their support and for the incredible work they’ve been doing to assist individuals who are trapped in this endless cycle of addiction.
Signed – Recovered porn addict. J.Me.BD
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