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.
i went to my first meeting tonight. it started off a little slow and there were only four of us (two newbies), but then the conversation picked up. I am so glad I went. Our stories were all different, but with person there was an element i could identify with and the people who had attended before had good advice. i am starting to feel like there is hope that i can get better :)
I felt exactly the same way as you. I walked into that first meeting in rock-bottom desperation, thinking that I was too messed up to ever get fixed -- so what did I have to lose?
And I learned instead that I have everything to gain.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could... Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Emerson
I felt accepted at my first meetings myself. I was crazy and still accepted. My what practice does for an insane person. Keep coming back to MIP and good to those meetings...find others and check them all out. You are now a part of the world wide fellowship of the Al-Anon Family Groups. Welcome...always in support ((((hugs))))
