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simplysno


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I've been reading some of these posts. I am not exactly new to Alanon. I've been in/out over the past four years but I've never taken on the steps and tried to interpret them and apply them. How do you start?



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Marie Hannah
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Attend meetings, get sponsor, read the literature and come here, read the step starting at Step 1 and share your thoughts .

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I cant get to the steps

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When I first came into the rooms I was in deep denial-so I had to work a while on Step One. I started with the Serenity Prayer and the Just for Today pamphlet gave me things to DO, which I very much needed. I also made a commitment to read the detachment pamphlet daily and to practice letting go. Little by Little I made progress. I attended every meeting I could get to and I was fortunate to be able to attend 5xwk at noon and did so most days for the 1st 6 months.

I also read ODAT (C2C had not yet been written) and Survival to Recovery would later become a lifeline for me. I started to redefine concepts like "help" and learned the difference between a relationship and an attachment. I learned that enabling was in fact a form of harm to my as well as my qualifiers and made a commitment to cease that process.

Today my life is much improved and I have found peace and credit the program with literally saving my life.



-- Edited by ifnotforgrace on Thursday 1st of October 2015 02:57:19 AM

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