From Insanity To Sanity
Prior to recovery, I found myself in dangerous and insane situations. More than once, I put myself, or other family members, in immediate danger by going into a known drug…
Prior to recovery, I found myself in dangerous and insane situations. More than once, I put myself, or other family members, in immediate danger by going into a known drug…
Why was “Live and Let Live” such a hard concept to wrap my mind around? With the help of the Nar-Anon program, I can now see that when I am…
I have gone through the insanity that is referred to in Step Two. I have an addict in my life and I tried everything to get through to him. I thought…
Step Two reaffirms to me that I may be powerless but I am not alone, and I am not helpless. After several months of three to four meetings a week, I realized…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…