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: Paths To Recovery
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.
CAL – My Journey in Service (Item # M-57)
WHAT I LEARNED: 1. While perusing through some Al-Anon service tools in the Area Archives, I came across “My Journey in Service” (item # M-57). At roughly 60 pages, the booklet is designed as a journal so it has lots of lined paper & blank spaces for writing, plus it includes a CAL service-oriented quote…
CAL – Al-Anon’s 12 Steps & 12 Traditions – Revised (Item # B-8)
WHAT I LEARNED: 1. I would consider this book the “lite” version of “Paths to Recovery” (item # B-24), but it still packs a punch. Each section starts with a 2-4 page essay, followed by a “Thinking It Over” reflection, & lastly a personal story. The average is 6 total pages per each Step (but of…
MTG – Orlando – “Paths to Recovery”
WHAT I LEARNED: Sometimes it’s the smallest choices that turn out to have the biggest impact.
CAL – Living Today in Alateen (Item # B-26)
WHAT I LEARNED: 1. Unlike the other Alateen daily reader, “Alateen-a day at a time, (item # B-10), since “Living Today in Alateen” (B-26) is the newer one (from 2001) it includes quotes from “Courage to Change” (B-16), “From Survival to Recovery” (item # B-21), & “Paths to Recovery” (B-24). For some reason, I assumed…
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