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hi all, does anyone know if they have alanon meetings specific to parents of alcoholics? or any good alanon approved literature on the subject? thanks, debbie
You are welcome at any of our Alanon Meetings hon: Here in the Al-anon chat roome we have a schedule:
(Morning Meetings) Mon. - Fri. at 9am eastern time Sat. - 10am eastern time . Each Sunday morning at 10 am est, we will be having a Spiritual meeting with a topic relating to the Spiritual part of our program. . .(Night Meetings) Mon-Saturday 9PM eastern time Sunday 7PM eastern time . . Each Thursday night at 9pm eastern standard time we will be having a Step/Tradition Meeting to help new people get to know and understand how to work the 12 steps. After going through one Step per week, and getting through the 12 of them, we then start a Tradition a week on this same night. Please join us!! . . Our Web Page at http://www.12stepforums.net/alanon.html . Our Message Board is at http://alanon.activeboard.com . Miracles In Progress Recovery Book Store is at http://www.12stepforums.net/books.html
Hope to see you around dear. (((hugs)))
-- Edited by Desirae on Friday 7th of December 2012 09:21:33 AM
Yes, there are Al-Anon meetings for parents of alcoholics. There are several in the area that I live and they have been a great support as I deal with my alcoholic adult daughter. Just go to the Al-Anon meeting directory on the top of this website and look for meetings that are listed as being for parents. The "Getting Them Sober" series of books are great for anyone who is dealing with an alcoholic loved one.
This varries from place to place . In NYC we do have parents meeting. I have attended a few and found that the program is the same regardless of who is the alcoholic. Same tools, same principles, same recovery.
The big difference is when it is your child who is addicted the urge to save and enable is greater.
No matter the meeting, the undersanding and acceptance is there.
We don't have any ACA, CODA, Oa or anything other than a few alanon meetings and less than 10 AA meetings in my area. I'm contemplating starting up an ACOA meeting here once I feel stable enough. It's going to be tricky since there aren't any to model after, but its my biggest issue, so I figured the only way to have one is to start one.
