Hi everyone, I am so thankful for Alanon and have just recently discovered this program. I have moved from Melbourne to the country for work purposes and gone from one meeting a day ( two sometimes) to not having any meetings for weeks now! I kind of knew how much I had come to depend on meetings but now I REALLY know how much I need them! So, crazy happy that I found this forum! Every day I realise new things, oh and re- realise all the older ones that I don't have enough program to sort out yet! But the biggest thing for me was finding my higher power. It was actually a beautiful moment, walking the dog in the rain and I just..... Felt him! It's weird, but a significant even in my life. Strange thing is, I've been practicing 'let go and let God' and recently my pup had to have surgery. I preyed for my higher power to look after him and he has! Done a cracking job! Here's the odd thing, I have a lot of other stuff going on ( as we all do) and have some very significant things I need my HP to give me direction on, work, where I live, relationships. I would go to pray and the. Had this crazy thought... I will wait until my dog had fully recovered before I would ask my HP for help.... I realised one morning driving to work, that I didn't want to overburden my HP, that I felt like I had asked 'enough' from him to look after my pup, I was worried, genuinely worried ( someplace in the deep recesses of my brain) that if I asked more from my HP that he would be some annoyed with me asking too much and he would withdraw the help he is giving me with my dog! I think that is such a significant thing, to do, think, but more so to realise!!! As they say ( quite a bit to me actually) I'll keep coming back!!! I am going to Melbourne this weekend and am going to get to as many meetings as I can in that time. Hope everyone is well and thanks for listening

Hey Hopeful - welcome to MIP. Glad you found us and glad you shared! I appreciate you sharing your ESH and hope your trip home is full of meetings, blessing and more!

Keep coming back - glad you are a part of our journey!

Hello Hopeful,

I love your honesty and can really relate to that feeling of there being only so much I can ask for! Enjoy Melbourne, such a beautiful city, and your meetings as well. Thank you for your share.

Thanks everyone, I had a great meeting today... Was running late and then took ages to actually find the venue, so was upset that I was only going to get about 1/2 he of meeting, I walked in and it was an anniversary meeting, started at 3.00, I arrived at 3.30 and it being a special day, ran through to 5.00, thank you HP!! I pretty much cried the whole way through, because I was so happy to be there!!! It was a great meeting and exactly what I needed!!! Now I have my favourite meeting tomorrow morning and hoping to get to an adult child's meeting tomorrow night too. I love this program, only in the rooms, whilst reading Alanon literature and working on my steps do I feel happy, normal ( that's a big one for me) and loved(huge one for me) I adore this program and I honestly believe it has saved my life, I still have a very long way to go, but for the first time of my life I feel hope and genuinely believe that my life can change, that I can one day live in serenity, happiness and actually love myself. Thanks everyone for your lovely welcome, Alanon is the only place where such love, caring and inclusion is offered. Ps: miracle in progress is a term I have not heard before.... But it is so true!!! I feel like a miracle in progress!

You sound like you are a miracle in progress

(((((Hopeful )))))))

Thanks for a great share (((hopeful))) - inspiring. Sounds like a great way to spend your weekend!