Courage to Change: Tradition Five talks about "encouraging and understanding our alcoholic relatives." This puzzled me at first. After all, doesn't Al-Anon teach us to focus on ourselves? It seemed…
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon: Suppose I decided I want to concentrate on the First Step, shutting out of my mind all other thoughts for just a few…
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Patioence “We were trapped by our need for the instant gratification that drugs gave us.” – Basic Text, p. 25 “I want what I want, and I want it now!”…
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AA Thought for the Day: We in Alcoholics Anonymous do not try to chart the path for the human soul or try to lay out a blueprint of the working…
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Courage to Change: It seems to me that many of us deal with our anger in inappropriate ways. Denying it, we stuff it, or we go off in fury, directing…
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