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 Asking for Help
Even if we have come to the realization that we have been affected by someone else’s drinking, asking for help to deal with these affects was often extremely difficult. Many of us firmly believed that we should be fully capable of handling all our problems on our own. Isolated by this disease, we may have felt too shameful to let anyone else know, and too fearful of further disappointment to take the chance of being let down again.
Al-Anon's Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions (B-8) is a basic, easy to understand introduction to Al-Anon's Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. The chapter on Step Two describes how we can break out of our isolation by reaching out to others for help as we "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity."
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“The Second Step suggested that we were not alone with those problems if we “came to believe” that help was within our reach.”
From Al-Anon’s Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions (B-8), page 13 |
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Other Al-Anon literature that discusses asking for help includes:
• The Twelve Steps and Traditions (P-17), pages 4-5
• Al-Anon Sharings from Adult Children (P-47), page 19
• ...In All Our Affairs (B-15), pages 1, 8, 46, 49, 87, 96
• Courage to Change (B-16), pages 48, 53, 66, 126, 127, 142, 161, 176, 218, 241, 295, 363
• From Survival to Recovery (B-21), pages 24, 34, 52, 70, 76, 98, 117, 121, 166, 181, 192, 210
• How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics (B-22), pages 36, 57, 321-324
• Courage to Be Me (B-23), pages 42, 218, 270, 272, 289
• Hope for Today (B-27), pages 189, 254, 264, 321, 329, 362
• Opening Our Hearts, Transforming Our Losses (B-29), pages 14, 18-19, 48, 50, 127-128, 133, 143-145, 158 |
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