Meetings – Page 4 – "CAL Chat" Blog ~My journey in Al-Anon~

MTG – Winter Park – “Meeting on Wheels”

WHAT I LEARNED: Step 4 is not about taking an immoral inventory!

MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”

WHAT I LEARNED: …if no one knows us as we really are, we run the risk of making ourselves victims of our own self-hatred. If we can be loved by somebody who sees us as we are, we will then be able to accept ourselves. Others rarely think we’re as bad as we think we…

MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”

WHAT I LEARNED: Happiness is like a butterfly. The more I chase it, the more it eludes me! 2. It never occurred to me that the word “help” begins & ends with the letters HP! 3. Bring my problems to my Sponsor. Bring solutions to my group.

MTG – Winter Park – “Meeting on Wheels”

WHAT I LEARNED: Meetings are like bubble baths. I always feel better & warm inside afterwards, & the members are the bubbles!

MTG – Orlando – “Courage 2 Be Me Alateen AFG”

WHAT I LEARNED: The opposite of judgement is acceptance.

MTG – Winter Park – “Meeting on Wheels”

WHAT I LEARNED: It is pain that connects us… & hope that lifts us.

MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”

WHAT I LEARNED: Memory without emotion is wisdom.

MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”

WHAT I LEARNED: “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, & the solution comes to you & you don’t know how or why.” – Albert Einstein quote from “Courage to Change” (item # B-16), page 81 (March 21st).

MTG – Winter Park – “Meeting on Wheels”

WHAT I LEARNED: I may not have active alcoholism in my life right now, but I still have ME in my life – and that’s why I keep coming back!

MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”

WHAT I LEARNED: I cannot worry my way to serenity.

MTG – Orlando – “Courage 2 Be Me Alateen AFG”

WHAT I LEARNED: “…the simplest definition of humility is truth. Knowing who we are – our good points & bad, our strengths & weaknesses, our abilities & our limitations – that’s humility.” From page 19 of: “Alateen – Hope for Children of Alcoholics” (item # B-3).

MTG – Kissimmee – “Kissimmee Tuesday Nite AFG”

WHAT I LEARNED: 1. Faith & staying in “I don’t know” are two things to combat worry. 2. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” – Helen Keller quote from “Courage to Change” (item # B-16), page 45 (February 14th).