by WebCoord | Oct 10, 2025 | Internet Article/Forum
Just weeks after a milestone birthday, I broke my hip in three places. I’d been shooing a lizard off my front porch, and when the lizard leaped, I reacted to its sudden movement and hit the floor. I exited my house on a stretcher and spent months recovering. During...
by WebCoord | Oct 9, 2025 | Internet Article/Forum
I believe that alcoholism is a disease of communication and a disease of relationships. When my husband offered to help me around the house, I didn’t expect him to volunteer to wash my daughter’s expensive sports gear. I cringed. Would he do it “correctly” (aka my...
by WebCoord | Oct 9, 2025 | Inside Al-Anon Family Groups
I’ve always had an opinion, but I didn’t always have a safe place to express it, so I kept it hidden to avoid family ridicule. As I grew into an adult, trying to express my opinions sometimes sounded like I was picking a fight. Didn’t sharing my opinion imply...
by WebCoord | Sep 18, 2025 | Inside Al-Anon Family Groups
Growing up in a Hispanic home affected by alcoholism, leadership was, at best, elusive. The louder, raging voice ruling with fear and control was the means for leading. I became a good people-pleaser, but I balked at any direction, and I froze at the thought of...
by WebCoord | Sep 18, 2025 | Inside Al-Anon Family Groups
I had only been in the program for seven years when one of my employees took me aside to let me know that my boss had declared he wanted to fire me. Wait, what?! I was shocked. In our weekly meetings, my boss and I disagreed about product design, but he had never said...
