Courage to Change

Courage to Change: I used to live my life as if I were on a ladder. Everyone was either above me — to be feared and envied — or below…

Courage to Change: I thought that if I stopped enabling the alcoholic in my life, the drinking would stop. When the drinking seemed to get worse instead of better, once…

Courage to Change: After working Al-Anon's Twelve Steps zealously for over a year, I was despondent over my continuing lapses into self-pity and resentment over the alcoholic's inability to give…

Courage to Change: Living with alcoholism, I learned that plans could change at any moment and that rules varied accordingly. I developed a deep mistrust of everyone and everything, because…