Courage to Change

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…

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…

Courage to Change: As a result of our exposure to alcoholism, many of us lose perspective on who we are and what we can and cannot do. We accept ideas…

Courage to Change: Life is a package deal. It is not enough to look only at the parts we like. It is necessary to face the whole picture so that…

Courage to Change: I remember, as a child, climbing trees to better observe a nest of baby birds, and lying on my back wondering what it would be like to…