How do you apply this year’s Conference theme, “Love, Laugh, and Grow Together,” to your own recovery?
April’s topic is, “How do you apply this year’s Conference theme, ‘Love, Laugh, and Grow Together,’ to your own recovery?”
As always, you can also write about Al‑Anon’s three Legacies. This month features Step Four, Tradition Four, and Concept Four.
Sharings on the Member Blog may be used in future Al‑Anon publications.
New topics are being added each month!
Love, Laugh and Grow Together…. Thank you for the opportunity to share and thanks to those who’ve shared, I found them helpful. What stood out for me was the “together”. I feel that Al-Anon Family Groups (AFG) helps me be interdependent. One of the impacts of growing in my home affected by the disease of alcoholism is that I’m fiercely independent and am challenged to depend on others. I am learning in AFG that I’m fully responsible for all aspects of my self (mental, physical and spiritual) and upon assessing if I need help I can ask for it from… Read more »
We take ourselves too seriously. I have been a committed member of Al-Anon for many years attending 3-4 meetings per week I have served as a GR, DR, and Convention Chair in my District. Al-Anon has wrought many changes in me, yet I am still the same person born to my mother and that is alright. I had to learn to love myself as reflected in my mother’s eyes. She took her eyes off of me to stop my father from drinking. I lost me in that family storm of alcoholism. I stopped loving me because there was no one… Read more »
Love – I practice the ways Al-Anon teaches me to love unconditionally. Tradition Five, which says our one purpose is to help families of alcoholics, helps me let go of differences and focus on our common problems. It’s okay if another member isn’t someone I want to get together with socially; I can still love them in a special way. Every time I share my experience, strength, and hope with other Al-Anon members I’m expressing unconditional love. Laugh – I strive to not take myself or my problems too seriously. This was hard for me at first. My problems seemed… Read more »
Start by learning how to love yourself, then you’ll be able to love others. It’s ok to laugh even when things seem to be falling apart around you. Give yourself permission to be happy. Let others in. You don’t have to do it alone. Pray in gratitude for the good in your life. No matter what’s going on, there’s always at least one thing to be grateful for. And the more you love, laugh and grow, the more things you’ll be grateful for.
The Program has helped me be the man, brother, father, son, and person I want to be by utilizing the 36 Legacies of the Program from Unity Fellowship and Recovery, talk to fellows, read and share at meetings, sponsoring and doing service at the group level, has allowed me to change and retool and relearn 24/7/365. I wouldn’t be in the cusp of having and enjoying a great life. Thank you so much.
Love everyone including your alcoholics is hard to do when insanity takes place. I am talking about my insanity. I have always reacted and still do when the alcoholic is drinking. What I do is also insane. I imagine things, I say things that hurt people and eventually I end with having no relationships at all. That is how I usually deal with things. I don’t want to have anyone around when they are drinking. Easy to say, but if you live with an alcoholic, I end hiding in my room because I don’t want to have any confrontations. Easy… Read more »
Getting to know fellow group members over the years has been my ticket to breaking through the isolation that low trust and low self-esteem put me in. I got to know them through their sharings in meetings each week, through doing service with them, and through becoming friends with some of them outside of meetings. The growing together and shared laughs came first, and opened the way for me to feel the love. My recovery would not have progressed very far without this sharing with these people.