Hello, all.

It's been about two weeks since I've drank/used. My mind is clearer and my body feels better. I've been going to meetings about six times a week, and everybody keeps talking about how "it doesn't work unless you work the steps". I'm trying, but I cannot get over the whole "giving myself to a higher power". I've been an atheist my whole life, and I really can't buy the idea of a "God". The literature says something along the lines of "God as you understand him"; but I understand him to be non-existent. I prefer to think of the world in a sense of actions and reactions. I know that if I have one drink (action), I'll want another (reaction). I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, but I want to stay clean and I want to work the steps; but the religious aspect of the program is just killing me. Any help would be very much appreciated

tl;dr: Atheist struggling to stay sober, and the 12 steps are feeling overly-religious.