Through An Al-Anon Filter

A reader wrote to ask me about rebellion. I grew up with an intensely rebellious nature. I was a child, and then an adult, with no respect...

I got up late this morning and am having tea and breakfast before I shower and go to the Christmas Day meeting here in town. I like to go to...

Anxiety is one aspect of being co-dependent that I have found to be universal - I hear people share at meetings about anxiety, old and new, ...

Robert and I were talking earlier today, about some of the alcoholics in our lives - whether in immediate family, or extended family, we agr...

Before Al-Anon, the only way I knew how to detach, was with sufficient anger to keep me motivated to withdraw. With  years of program behi...

I grew up believing that it was my job to make other people happy, however that could be managed, and I tried to do so, even if it meant tha...

When I moved to this city at the end of my 17-year marriage, I became friends with a woman who is  a sewing enthusiast. Two days ago we went...