Through An Al-Anon Filter

I have never been a patient person. I've had to learn how to practise patience with the continual process of letting go. Then letting go...

My husband came home one day this weekend looking exhausted and distressed. One of his newly-sober sponsees had received a cancer diagnosis ...

Last night we had friends over for dinner, one of whom brings his beautiful springer spaniel.  After dinner, we were sitting around the fire...

 "What's a "quiet mind" and how do I get one?" For me, it's a mind that isn't full of stress, resentment, ...

I met with a sponsee yesterday, and the topic of judgement arose, as it so often does with those of us in Al-Anon. I came into this program ...

From Courage to Change, page 288: "Do not search for the truth," said an ancient patriarch, "only cease to cherish opinions...

I love it when I meet with a sponsee, and one of the topics which arises, is the idea that we have a choice as to how we respond to the even...