Courage to Change

Courage to Change: An Al-Anon friend says, " have a tendency to think of my experience with alcoholism as an epic, technicolor movie, an extravaganza with my name in lights…

Courage to Change: One of my character defects is to respond in kind to behavior that is directed at me – to react to insults with more insults, to rudeness…

Courage to Change: The Fifth Step (“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs”) is a very intimate experience in which we…

Courage to Change: In living with the disease of alcoholism, I became a fearful person who dreaded change. Although my life was full of chaos, it was familiar chaos, which…

Courage to Change: Trying to follow a suggestion I heard in Al-Anon meetings, I dutifully wrote lists of things for which I was grateful. I listed such things as my…