Many Voices One Journey Al-Anon Family Groups

by Al-Anon Family Groups

Al-Anon's story of growth and recovery as experienced by the fellowship and its members over the past 60 years. Sharings from archival papers, official documents, published articles, and personal recollections, interspersed with insightful discussion questions, highlight the changes faced by not only Al-Anon's members, but Al-Anon itself. Indexed, softcover. 426 pages

426 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Tessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although the blandness of the Al-Anon style can be tiresome, and the text is interspersed with dozens of annoying "discussion questions," this history of Al-Anon is a real eye-opener. Who knew that they used to call themselves "Non-Alcoholics Anonymous," or that sometimes women whose husbands started drinking again were asked to stop coming to meetings, or that there was a major fight over whether to allow adult children of alcoholics to join the fellowship? Very, very interesting for us 12-steppers.

[Terre · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this was not at all what I thought it would be, after reading this I feel proud to know more about the history of a group that has saved my sanity.

[Chris Gager · Rating 5 out of 5]

My newest Al-Anon book. I'll start perusing tonight. It's a history of the program and should be very enlightening to me as I don't know much of the history even though I've been a member for 16 years. I've been reading a bit each day and it's fascinating to see the gradual growth and separation from AA. INCLUDING moving away from the idea that the main purpose of the early family groups was to support AA and the alcoholics. The word codependant hadn't been invented yet but they were discovering what it meant to keep the focus on themselves.

[Richard Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

a very timely new book on the history and aspects of Al-Anon