Blog Entries tagged 'Nar-A-Non'

Please Stop Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy!

kenandjody@comcast.net — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

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"The Affair," or How an alcoholic wife shifted her guilt

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:35:23 +0100

"The Affair"

Alcoholic wives resist every effort by an enablibng husband to escape the bondage of her extreme need for alcohol. One disturbing trend starts when he starts atending 12-step meetings for codependents, such as Al-Anon or Nar-A-Non. To her frustration, he seems to come home from these meetings whistling like he used to do. About thistime, she suddenly comes to the perfect solution to this conundrum; he is having an affair!

Yes, it all fits [...]

12 Symptoms of a Spiritual Awakening

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:06:30 +0100

12 SYMPTOMS OF A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

When hurting people first come into a 12-step program, they are seldom walking into the meeting for the purpose of having a spiritual awakening. Most, men and women alike, come to programs such as AA, Al-Anon, Nar-A-Non, or Adult Children of Alcoholics searching for relief from the pain and chaos visited upon them and theirloved ones by the co-diseases of addiction and codependency. But these diseases are diseases of the spirit first, an [...]

How Much Does Alcoholism Cost Society?

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Nobody escapes paying the price for alcoholism, drug addiction, and codependency in society. Even if you are fortunate enough not to be a drinker at a level that is diseased (about 10% of our population drinks enough to hamper their daily performance) or one of the four adults who are in line daily enabling one who is (i.e., 48% of all adults over the age of 18 were either directly impacted by a diseased drinker as they grew up, or are being effected at the moment), then you are paying fo [...]

Enabling � What it is and how to stop

rthelen@sbcglobal.net — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:09:01 +0100

Early in our Al Anon and Nar-Anon recovery programs we hear about the concept of enabling behavior. This is usually defined as doing things for the addicted loved one to prevent them from experiencing a laundry list of consequences that occur because of their addiction. The result of this behavior is that the addict’s self esteem is damaged and their desire for recoverydiminished. They also come to resent us and we in turn become frustrated, angry and resentful becau [...]

Stop enabling!

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:16:19 +0100

The best outcome for all concerned happens when enablers stop considering addiction a "problem" and start considering addiction a FACT! A problem implies that there is a solution, and that immediately leads to the misconception that we can somehow find it. The truth is, the disease of addiction is as much a fact as cancer, and we cannot, obviously, find a solution for cancer.

Mostwould not even try...that is called acceptance. Until we enablers start practicing honest accepta [...]