Courage to Change: Before Al-Anon, I believed that being an adult was to be in control — rigid, cool. Being an adult was looking good on the outside and not…
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AA Thought for the Day: The AA way is the way of sobriety, and yet there are slips. Why do these slips occur? Why don’t we all accept AA and…
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Being ourselves “To be truly humble is to accept and honestly try to be ourselves.” – Basic Text, p. 36 Humility is a puzzling concept. We know a lot about…
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon: We hear in Al-Anon that no situation is hopeless. At first we find this hard to believe. Hope and despair are human emotional…
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Courage to Change: As I worked my way through Step Four, I listed my character traits as honestly and fearlessly as I could. I was struck by a great irony:…
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