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 What Are the “Tools of Al-Anon”?
We learn in Al-Anon that we didn’t cause alcoholism, can’t control it, and can’t cure it. We have, however, been affected. Al-Anon offers us many specific tools to help lessen these effects.
The chapter “Picking Up the Tools,” from the book From Survival to Recovery: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home (B-21) describes the many helpful ideas and techniques that Al-Anon members use to heal from the effects of alcoholism. This book shares the experiences of Al-Anon members who grew up with the disease and how they have found recovery through Al-Anon Family Groups.
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“Habits don’t change just by reading about them. Even saying, ‘Yes, that’s a habit I have,’ doesn’t change it. Change comes through practicing something different. Working a program for me means taking one of the tools—a slogan, a Step, the Serenity Prayer, the phone list, my Sponsor—and using it in my life.”
From From Survival to Recovery (B-21), page 107
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Other Al-Anon literature that discusses Al-Anon tools include:
• Sponsorship, What It’s All About (P-31)
• The Concepts— Al-Anon’s Best Kept Secret? (P-57)
• Alateen Talks Back On: Slogans (P-70)
• When I Got Busy, I Got Better (P-78)
• Service Sponsorship: Working Smarter Not Harder (P-88)
• Sponsorship— Working Together to Recover (M-78)
• Al-Anon’s Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions (B-8)
• How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics (B-22),pages 36-41, 42-65, 66-76, 80, 106-123
• Courage to Be Me— Living with Alcoholism (B-23), pages 27, 50, 53, 79, 87, 163, 176-177, 186, 203
• How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics (B-22), pages 6, 84-86, 113-114, 173, 278
• Courage to Be Me (B-23), pages 64-81, 82-182, 183-268, 269-279
• Paths to Recovery— Al-Anon’s Steps, Traditions, and Concepts (B-24)
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