Through An Al-Anon Filter

This is a process; most of us are not able to go from the denial and excusing/blaming/accusing of others, to personal honesty, in one fell s...

A few nights ago, I went to an open AA meeting, to see a good friend celebrate 20 sober years. The meeting room was packed full of people, a...

From Hope for Today, page 83: "By applying the Serenity Prayer to the various situations that occured, I was reminded that my anger c...

Sometimes what I fear, is a result of a previous painful encounter. Or I may fear because I've been taught to fear, without really under...

How can I tell? In this, as in so much of Al-Anon, I need to stop and consider my motives. What is it that I'm hoping to receive, when I...

For me, this has been one of the most continuingly difficult lessons of Al-Anon: detach. Let it be. Let go of the outcomes, let go of other ...

When I was new to Al-Anon, my personal misery loomed so large that I was quite unable to look past my own nose, to see how my behavior affec...