Tradition Two
Accepting Tradition Two into my family life teaches me how to detach from my grown children. Tradition Two states, “For our group purposes there is but one authority – a loving God…
Changing What We Can: Ourselves
My addicted son was out of food, so I ran out to buy some food for him, checking first to make sure I knew his favorites. His car motor was…
Loving An Addict
If someone had told me twelve years ago that I would fall in love with and marry a man who had been a heroin addict for the previous fifteen years,…
Happiness
There is one crisis after another in my life. How can I possibly be happy? Every waking hour of my life revolves around the antics of the addict. No matter how…
Surrender The Insanity
The trials of being raised in a dysfunctional family sometimes made it hard for me to believe that there is a Higher Power. I could not understand why all these…
Feelings
How ironic it is that it seems to be okay for women to cry, but it is not okay for men to cry. I say ironic because in my family,…
Crisis
There is a saying, in German, “denn wir haben eine Krise der Verzweiflung erreicht” – for we have reached a crisis of desperation. When I read this the other day, I thought…
Peace
I went to my yoga class today. My yoga class has a therapeutic approach, where the instructor formulates the exercises, stretches and poses based on the discomfort that each student…
Yourself You Can Change
I spent seven years trying desperately to hang on to my life and sanity. By the time I finally reached out for help and discovered Nar-Anon, I was very close…
Decisions
When I first came to Nar-Anon, I was a decision-making mess. For over five years, I had lived with my husband’s drug use and the mental, emotional, and sometimes physical…