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Post Info TOPIC: Time of year to truly embrace "Step One"


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Time of year to truly embrace "Step One"


It is the time of year, where most people are under stress and obligation to get things done before the holidays, but toss your emotions while dealing with active alcoholism, and all of it can become totally overwhelming for us. Each of us who come to this site have been devastaed by someone else's drinking. We cannot change that fact, and the effects keep attacking our lives. We must remember that we are powerless and we cannot put a stop to the drinking. We can only take care of ourselves, and those who need care from us. We must detach........and make the most of the season and enjoy,,,live,,,,and relish in the wonders of what this season truly means with those who are close to us. We who have children, parents, siblings, friends who have not been exposed to the depth we have of alcoholism, should not suffer from our incapability to deal with alcoholism. Let us use our Alanon tools to not only open the doors of happiness for us, but for those who surround us. We deserve as human beings to enjoy the times of the season and relish in the music, the beauty that this season offers, as other do! Perhaps by doing this , it will be a prelude of the following year as we move towards "hope".


We admitted we were powerless over alcohol----that our lives had become unmanageable.



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gardengal


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RE: Time of year to truly embrace "Step One"


((((GG))))

Thank you for that post. I am going to try my hardest to do just as you suggested.

Have a blessed holiday.

Gail

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Gail


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 I don't know about anyone else, but my life's plenty unmanageable without the holidays, when my father's not speaking to me, and when my mother thinks she's my best friend. My life is, as it is, unmanageable. There is nothing I can do about the exterior things that will make my life unmanageable--but my prospective, I have come to see, is a whole lot of it. Generally speaking, if I can stay in the here in now, keep a true sense of loving to myself, keep myself honest, then I can keep my side of reality somewhat manageable. I have come to see, ultimately, it is not my responsibility to change a situation--it is as it is according to god's will. But I can change how I live with that situation within it.

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