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Al-Anon and Alateen
Family Groups
of
A Note to the Newcomer
We welcome you to the Ventura County Al-Anon Family Group and hope you
will find in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to
enjoy.
We who live, or have lived, with the problem of alcoholism understand as
perhaps few others can. We, too were lonely and frustrated, but in Al-Anon we
discover that no situation is really hopeless, and that it is possible for us
to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is still
drinking or not.
We urge you to try our program. It will show you how to find solutions
that lead to serenity. So much depends on our own attitudes, and as we learn to
place our problems in its true perspective, we find it loses its power to
dominate our thoughts and our lives.
The family situation is bound to improve as we apply the Al-Anon ideas.
Without such spiritual help, living with an alcoholic is too much for most of
us. Our thinking becomes distorted by trying to force solutions, and we become
irritable and unreasonable without knowing it.
The Al-Anon program is based on the Twelve Suggested Steps of Alcoholics
Anonymous, which we try, little by little, one day at a time, to apply to our
lives along with our slogans and the Serenity Prayer. The loving interchange of
help among members and daily reading of Al-Anon literature thus make us ready
to receive the priceless gift of serenity.
Al-Anon is an anonymous fellowship. Everything that is said here, in the
group meetings and member to member, must be held in confidence. Only in this
way can we feel free to say what is in our minds and hearts, for this is how we
help one another in Al-Anon.
"Reprinted with permission of Al-Anon
Family Group Headquarters, Inc.,
Copyrighted 1998 Al-Anon Alateen Service Manual
1998-2000, page 52"
For
a Free Newcomer's Packet,
please call the World Service Office at
1-888-4AL-ANON (1-888-425-2666)
or attend a local meeting.