How did I feel at my first Al-Anon meeting?

About a year ago, I participated in the reluctantly Alanon. I went to the meeting from the meeting ... I finally found a group of women who made me silent at last. Everything they have to say has something to do with me. From my past to the future, I think that my future is like what they experienced. And listening to their results and strength gave me a lot of hope. For me, it is not just structure and work plan. There is a place to think more safely and talk. Prior to that, I thought that it was just dark, full of temptation and confused. It really truly looks at itself and everything I do not know will affect me.

I stopped because I was lazy ... but I also had the spirituality I learned and I got "healing"

A year later, I was looking for a local conference ... I realized the growth of my experience. I think that I can learn and grow more by participating.

My husband is an alcoholic ... not in the plan ... I told it it was a wonderful thing, so I fully support it. problem

According to my experience, to find the right conference and the right person for you really requires time and effort.

So programs like AA and Al-Anon are not real for me. However, I am considering participating in the Alanon meeting for more than a year. I know that I can learn something by listening to other people in my position, I want to learn. Furthermore, since most AA, Al-Anon and other AA-based treatments are urging people to "participate without religious beliefs" (as religious beliefs are as easy to put aside saying). You can open God's strange declarations over and over and read the line spacing. Even if I remove the middle part of the story and throw away all prayer slices at the beginning and end.

I remembered a few years ago when I lived in Galway, I decided to go to the Alanon meeting. These meetings are for families participating in AA. We found AA meeting, but we could not find the meeting. Some people thought I was here to attend the meeting, and I immediately attended the meeting. I listened one by one to people's fight about alcohol relations.

On Sunday, 19th April 2009, I visited the Park Slope Serenity at St. Francis Xavier School. This was the first time for me to participate in any meeting other than treatment, so I was shocked for the first time by the nature of the meeting. This is the Alanon Conference focusing on the influence of alcohol dependence on families. Members of this group are family members of alcoholism. As a result, the focus of Al - Anon concentrates more on alcoholism and concentrates more on people who influence drinking behavior of alcoholic dependents. When I refer to the group booklet and its mission statement, the purpose of Alanon seems to be to help alcoholic poor families and friends. They do this by learning and practicing twelve steps. The meeting of Al-Anon is open to families and friends of all alcoholics. Their goal seems to be to give understanding and encouragement to drunkards.

In the evening, I am going to attend Al-Anon or Nar-Anon group conference. I attended the meeting everyday and I attended the meeting for the past nine years. These are support groups for families and alcoholic poor friends. They were born by Lois Wilson, the wife of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Her idea is that this family becomes as sick as a drunkard (addict), so we should almost follow the same plan. I know that the sick part is true. I have been actively involved in the service of Al-Anon. I like it, but I do not think I'm working properly. Even after years, I still feel terrified, I still let my children go into my whole world. I am not good. As their illness progresses, I am the same