WHAT I LEARNED: A few weeks ago I recently received my hardcopy of the new “2022 World Service Conference Summary” (item # P-46). Pasted below are images from pages 80-81 that show some stats for 2021’s best selling Al-Anon books, booklets, and the “Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism 2021” (item # N/A) outreach magazine. It’s surprising that…
Tag: Hope For Today
MTG – Orlando – “Today’s Hope AFG”
WHAT I LEARNED: “It is in trying to understand less that I experience more.”– quote from “Hope For Today” (item # B-28), page 206 (July 24th). Since I personally feel there is no way I could possibly fully understand my Higher Power, does this mean that Step 11 could read as: “…to improve our conscious…
MTG – Orlando – “Today’s Hope AFG”
WHAT I LEARNED: 1. Make humility a habit! 2. “If you think you have humility, you don’t really have it.” – quote from “Paths To Recovery” (item # B-24), page 77. — To see the full-size pic of this quote (and others), visit: http://www.instagram.com/calchatfan1.
PODCAST – Intimacy In Alcoholic Relationships / Just For Today Bookmark (Item #’s B-33 / M-12)
EPISODE 12 of my “CAL Chat” podcast is now available to listen to! How can it be easier to share about sex? How can spiritual solutions be brought into intimate situations? What new upcoming Al-Anon literature is on the horizon? (To hear this episode, please visit the show’s website at: calchatpodcast.com – or you can…
MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”
WHAT I LEARNED: 1. The fewer expectations I have of other people, the less they seem to piss me off! 2. “…getting better doesn’t always mean feeling better.” – Aug 14th from the daily reader: “Hope For Today” (item # B-27).
MTG – Davenport – “Hope For Today”
WHAT I LEARNED: I don’t need to have more things in order to be more!
PODCAST – How Al-Anon Works / Just For Today Bookmark (Item #’s B-22 / M-12)
EPISODE 10 of my “CAL Chat” podcast is now available to listen to! What are good consequences? Where does the fear of letting go come from? What are literature discussions like at the World Service Conference? (To hear this episode, please visit the show’s website at: calchatpodcast.com – or you can subscribe to it for…
PODCAST – Courage To Be Me / Various Alateen Literature (Item # B-23)
EPISODE 8 of my “CAL Chat” podcast is now available to listen to! How can I keep things simple? If my growth is like a tree, then what are my roots? What Alateen book can I bring to an Al-Anon meeting? (To hear this episode, please visit the show’s website at: calchatpodcast.com – or you…
MTG – Baton Rouge – “Triangle Al-Anon”
WHAT I LEARNED: “Recovery may well be the most exciting ride I will ever take in my life.” – June 2nd from the daily reader: “Hope For Today” (item # B-27). …Keep my hands & feet inside the recovery ride at all times!! 🤪
MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”
WHAT I LEARNED: “It’s an illusion that depleting myself will help someone else.” – Aug 19th from the daily reader: “Hope For Today” (item # B-27).
MTG – Ocoee – “Monday Miracles”
WHAT I LEARNED: “Serenity isn’t a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice.” – Feb 4th from the daily reader: “Hope For Today” (item # B-27).
CAL – Sexual Intimacy & the Alcoholic Relationship (Item # P-77)
WHAT I LEARNED: 1. Well surprise, surprise, this is not an instruction booklet on how to have sex with an alcoholic! However, it does reassure me that I’m not the only one who has had difficulty in this area. Intimacy, especially sexual intimacy, is a topic rarely brought up in Al-Anon meetings. This must have…
MTG – Orlando – “Hope For Today AFG”
WHAT I LEARNED: “We” is such a small word, yet it has such a big meaning! (See “Hope for Today” (item # B-27), page 181.)
MTG – Orlando – “Hope For Today AFG”
WHAT I LEARNED: Going to an Al-Anon meeting is usually not a first choice when one is having a good day. But even on a good day, it gets even better after I’ve gone!
MTG – Orlando – “Together Tuesdays AFG”
WHAT I LEARNED: Page 327 (November 22nd) from the daily reader “Hope For Today” (item # B-27) – that’s all I’m saying!
CAL – Just for Today Wallet Card (Item # M-10)
WHAT I LEARNED: This wallet card has been around since 1954 & I thought, given its small size, it would have less on it than the bookmark version (item # M-12), but it actually has more. It has 2 extra sentences – one about the Seventh Tradition & the second refers to the 10 other…
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