The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
Any members would like to give service at a meeting or be an alternate are welcome
Old Business
Banned member
New Business
Election of Chat Room Business Meeting Chair and Secretary
Use of "70 Second Al-Anon" or some approved paragraph as to what to expect in the chat room.
"70 Second Al-Anon
To make your first meetings more meaningful, We would like to share with you a few basic concepts of Al-Anon that will help you understand our discussion today.
Perhaps the most basic idea is that we are powerless over an alcoholic, but we do have power over ourselves. Therefore, you will hear us talking about how we can change ourselves so that we can be happy, whether the alcoholic is drinking or not.
A second basic concept is that alcoholism is a disease, and the alcoholic can no more help having it than one can help having cancer or diabetes. We cannot treat the disease, but we do learn to let the alcoholic take the consequences of their own behavior.
We call this "detaching". We detach ourselves from their alcoholic problems. Eventually, we learn not to react to their drinking, and we have then started on the road to our own recovery.
A third basic idea is to live one day at a time. We try to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we made yesterday, and we decide to take tomorrow as it comes. We live for now, for today.
There are other ideas expressed in our Twelve Steps and in our slogans. You will also find help in hearing how others meet their problems. And you will get help from the loving concern we felt for you the minute you walked in through the door.
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