HOW DO i GET STARTED

MARQ-K · Member

HOW DO i GET STARTED

tlcate · Veteran Member

Personally, I would recommend finding a meeting in your area. As many as you can. In the beginning, for me, the more meetings the easier it was not to drink. Find a sponsor. Work the steps. Sit down and listen and do what is recommended. It is pretty simple, though it may not be easy.

And please keep coming back.

Tricia

Rainspa · Member

Also......

Go to "Step 1"

There are directions. Got a book?

Desirae · Veteran Member

This was my share at my Al-anon meeting this morning... it was really a lightbulb moment for me and I am posting it in hopes that someone else may be as inspired as I was.
first... thank you all for being here
every time I log into a meeting I am so grateful
this morning I was thinking about the 12 steps as a whole
when I came to Al-anon
I took the 12 steps the wrong way
I thought of them more along the lines of the 10 commandments
like I had to accomplish them all... all the time
I don't know how to explain it other than that...lol
but in talking to a fellow al-a-sister :)
I was informed how importantly it is to follow them and really change your life with each step
from the top
taking the first step... (I have learned)
is mot a mat5ter of reading or saying the words "admitted we were powerless..."
but believing and impressing them so deeply
on our conciousness that
admitting it becomes
established as our way of thinking and feeling
someone said to me "fake it till you make it"... and I lol
but like an earlier sharer (idk who)
said
her sponsor is inspiring her to take one moment at a time
for 20 days (is that what it was)
and it will instinctually become a habit
I've heard that somewhere else before
and I did just that
I told myself that I am going to admit that I was powerless
and at first I still didn't believe it
but eventually as I came back
and got hit with bombshell after bombshell of esh (
^esperience/strength/hope
it the shairs that I read
I had a lightbulb moment
and to my surprise
I really was powerless over alcohol
that is when I moved on to step two...
waited for the lightbulb moment...ding!... I get it moment
that I moved on to step 3
and now stuck on step 4
and it makes me proud of myself again
to know that have the willpower to accept the things I cannot change
and actually move on to take care of me
but step 4 it is... and I been told, that for every negative thought in this process that I have... to think of a positive one
before I move on to the next thought
my words may not be coming out clearly to you guys this morning
but they sure are filling in the blanks for me...lol
thank you for letting me ramble
done

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