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Sometimes I see alcoholism as a physical being, someone or something that I can confront. I imagine this disease as a dark twisted being that is the personification of pain and agony. While having this imagine in my mind, I wrote a letter to this disease. In my letter I poured out all of my feelings for this disease. I explained in detail everything this disease has stolen from me, from my children, and from my grandchildren. I described all the sleepless nights, all the tormented rages, pain, chaos and insanity this disease has caused me. I could see my anger for this disease in the way I was writing. My last line in the letter read, "While I know I am absolutely powerless over you, you NO longer have any control over me!"
Before I started this letter, I was feeling some resentment and had a lot of negative feelings. By the time I had finished the letter, I was feeling peace, a cleansing peace. My soul felt a release. I took the letter out in our back yard and dug a deep hole next to an oak tree, and I buried the letter. This has been therapeutic for me. I'm not sure how, but it made me feel lighter.
Just thought I would share something I did that has helped me deal with alcoholism.
Al-Anon works if you work it.
I wish all of my Al-Anon family a very Merry Christmas!
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cloudyskies wrote: I took the letter out in our back yard and dug a deep hole next to an oak tree, and I buried the letter. This has been therapeutic for me. I'm not sure how, but it made me feel lighter.
Just thought I would share something I did that has helped me deal with alcoholism.
Al-Anon works if you work it.
I wish all of my Al-Anon family a very Merry Christmas!
hey (((Linda))) this was a very very spot on thing you did....most therapists recommend letter writing/journalling, writing letters to our offenders/abusers to discharge the anger and release the pent up negative energy....so why not alcoholism......i too, sometimes put a personality on it, like dark spirits or dark entities i can't see it but I can see the evidence of it in the person it possesses.....burying the letter you wrote is your saying t it, "now that I have confronted you, you are no longer welcome in my life or my thoughts--you no longer have a hold on me" the burial signifies in my opinion a funeral of sorts...a ritual of putting it in the ground...from dust to dust so to speak.....when i would write to my abuser (hell doesn't have a zip code so i never could send) but i would write till i was exhausted then burn the letter.....destroying all evidence that he even exists to me....just a pile of ash that blows away, scattered by the winds.........I like what you did......and I like that you got peace out of it........
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