by Sally Rosa | Sep 3, 2014 | 12 Steps, Addiction Articles
Recovery Can Be Overwhelming Getting sober is scary! We’re thrown into a new location, told to change people, places and things (this means change everything!), and begin to reach out to other sober people. We begin to experience feelings again. Basically, we...
by Fiona Stockard | Aug 19, 2013 | Recovery
False Evidence Appearing Real (FEAR) Having grown up in functional alcoholism and then married into it, I spent forty-two years frightened and embarrassed. I spent forty-two years! Think about how long that is! Al-Anon helped me recognize FEAR kept showing up because...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 28, 2013 | 12 Steps
Listening is the Hardest Part Al-Anon has taught me that pray requires listening. One of our slogans is Listen and Learn. Another is Progress Not Perfection. Another is Recovery is a Verb. Okay, I made that last one up. It’s good, isn’t it! In Al-Anon...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 20, 2013 | 12 Steps
A Voice From Al-Anon Meetings of Al-Anon and ACA are helping me to recover myself. See, I’d wandered into a swamp of confusion and crisis. This swamp was twenty year marriage, during which I drank right alongside my handsome, fun-loving husband. My husband and I...
by A Women in Sobriety | Jul 18, 2013 | 12 Steps
My Name is Ruth and My Husband’s a Drinker “I met Lois in Mt. Kisco, at my first meeting. She was clever and cute. At first she said, ‘My name is Lois, what’s yours?’ Then she said, ‘Welcome, we have a message for you we will give you at the end of the...
