Through An Al-Anon Filter

Some realisations are joyous - we feel lifted up, connected to our Higher Power, eyes open to new possibilities, and bouncing with eager ant...

My dictionary defines petulant as: "irritable, impatient, or sullen."  I have been all of these - irritable when my wants and ne...

Last night at coffee after the meeting, someone spoke of a kite analogy they'd heard used to describe the process of "letting go...

In life, seems like there will always be someone who will  not hesitate to tell me how they believe me to be wrong/mistaken/misguided/blind ...

We teach other people how to treat us. This painful truth can be a lesson I must learn time and again with regard to some of the alcoholics ...

I was wandering through my blog stats yesterday for the first time in months, and it's interesting to discover that the most read post c...

Major life decisions can start out with a mild unease, building slowly over a long period of time, to become an ever-present ache in the hea...