How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics Quotes

“In attempting to protect ourselves, we let our personalities slip away until we were emotionally numb. Struggling”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“We are powerless over another’s alcoholism. We didn’t cause the disease. We can’t control it. And we can’t cure it.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“We have a right to expect more from life than mere survival.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“From Survival to Recovery: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home is an inspiring book that offers help to all who have experienced another’s alcoholism, especially adult children of alcoholics.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“If the alcoholic hits upon something we feel guilty about, we find it difficult not to believe it as the truth.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“By being honest and admitting that the power we tried to wield over alcoholism was never readily available to us, we let go of the illusion that kept us imprisoned in an endless cycle of repetitious, self-defeating behavior and inevitable disappointment.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“When our preoccupation with others distracts us from our responsibilities to attend to our own physical, emotional, and spiritual health, we suffer. Our health and self-esteem decline. We become incapable of accepting reality, coping with change, or finding happiness. Our lives fly out of control.”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“We may serve as the enabler, rescuing the alcoholic from unpleasant consequences of his or her own making. Or we may play the victim, unwillingly stepping in and covering for the alcoholic who is too drunk or hung over to fulfill job or family responsibilities. Perhaps we find that our role has been to take the blame whenever anything goes wrong, even when we weren’t remotely involved. Others provide”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics

“direction, we needn’t take it any more personally than we would take”
― Al-Anon Family Groups, How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics