![]() I’m glad that I can laugh about occasionally still “working my problem.” Now, however, I have a good grasp of the Al-Anon tools and can more quickly get back to working the program! I can live a happier, more balanced life. They help me work through a problem by working my Al Anon program. These are a few of the Al Anon tools I have learned to use. ![]() Discussions go better when I can calmly say what I mean without saying it in a mean way. Natural consequences are more appropriate and effective than my nagging. Getting him to school or work is not my job. His problem does not have to become my problem. I learned I don’t have to answer those calls I can call back when I am ready to hear about and respond to whatever is happening in his life. I learned that sometimes I may need to read Al-Anon literature or something spiritual to help me meditate and stop the obsessive thinking. Gradually, as I continued to attend meetings, I learned that the Serenity Prayer can be useful to slow my racing mind so I can go back to sleep. In those early days, I “worked my problem” by: obsessing about the alcoholic’s drinking, drug use, and destructive behaviors waking in the middle of the night with my mind racing waiting for the dreaded phone calls fretting and trying to force him to get to school or work on time and feeling knots in my stomach whenever it was time to discuss anything with him. The person reading the text aloud misread the line “I continued to work my program” as “I continued to work my problem.” I was glad we were meeting online and my microphone was muted so I didn’t disrupt the meeting when I laughed out loud.Īs I thought about the difference between working the Al Anon program and “working my problem,” I remembered when I first attended Al-Anon and didn’t understand how the tools of the program could help me. It is a sad reflection of some modern management practice that many workers report the worst time of day as being when they were with their line manager 23. I was attending a meeting where the group was studying How Al-Anon Works for Families and Friends of Alcoholics (B-32).
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