Through An Al-Anon Filter

At times, dealing with an alcoholic is like trying to capture smoke with our hand - it billows out of our grasp, and wafts away in the cold ...

I love this slogan. It speaks to the part of me that can be judgemental, unaccepting, or critical. I was raised in a family with a very cri...

I suffer from this; at times, to a ridiculous degree. I will go out to eat with a friend, have a craving for a salad, then allow myself to b...

We can feel resistant to this fact, because we have so much accumulated anger, and resentments, old and new, all seething and bubbling withi...

What does this mean? I like the explanation from the ODAT book, page 45: "What does working the program mean? It means to attend mee...

A family member has to go to civil court tomorrow, to present a case against a deadbeat customer.  I have long since turned over the outcome...

Why do so many of us, when facing our first "searching and fearless moral inventory," find the mere idea unnerving? Why is the con...