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Title: Courage to Change: One Day at a Time in Al-Anon II by Al-Anon Family Group Head Inc ISBN: 0-910034-79-6 Publisher: Hazelden Information Education Pub. Date: July, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best daily reader I've found
Comment: This is the best daily reader I've found so far, even among the other Al-Anon books. I struggle with depression, tiredness, and having grown up the child of generations of alcoholics. Sometimes I don't feel that Al-Anon fits what I'm struggling with, and that leaves me feeling lonely - but this book almost always has something that soothes me in a deep way (which I'm despretely seeking when depression tears at me) and helps me feel stronger in that particular moment.
I read a page a day (when I remember), but mostly I use the index. I look up whatever topic I feel fits at that time - acceptance, anxiety, detatchment, fear, gratitude, mistakes, self-acceptance, self-esteem, and so on - and read all the pages on that topic. If I still feel torn up inside I look up another topic and read those pages. By the end of reading, although my problems haven't been solved, I feel a more able to deal with the world.
I've found there are a lot of useful quotes, not just the ones at the bottom of the pages but within the text. All of my copies are dog-eared and underlined, and I write a lot of quotes down to help later because often a simple phrase clicks within me whereas a torrent of wise words cannot.
In summary, this book has helped more than the many self-help books I've bought, probably because I've made it a part of my life. No book can answer my problems and the fact that I inevitably have to deal with them - difficult when I feel I just don't know how. But that's why this book is perfect; it exists to help people survive, one day at a time. It's straight-forward simplicity, without the too-sweet, new-age feel other books can have, is why it is personally indispensible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: This inspirational daily reader helped me to get through every minute of every day for the first 5 years in Nar-anon. The fact that it is written by people who came before me and they share their information and experience, makes it so much easier to read. Not some clinical Dr. telling you what to do to fix your life, just people helping other people.
Rating: 5
Summary: a beautiful, hopeful, well-written book
Comment: as a daily reader, i feel this is the best, and a step up from al-anon's also-great "one day at a time" reader from the sixties, the predecessor of "the courage to change". the philosophy is powerful yet simple, positive but not squishy at all, the readings are comprehensive (as is the index - and you can look up just about any emotion you happen to be feeling and find a strong reading on it), the quotations are excellent, there's no gender bias, there's no attacking the alcoholic, and it's gentle from start to finish - but firm throughout.
i would recommend this book to anyone whether you're in al-anon or not. it's a prime book in my library and life.
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Title: One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Group Head Inc ISBN: 0910034214 Publisher: AFG (Al Anon Family Group) Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Paths to Recovery: Al-Anon's Steps, Traditions and Concepts by Al-Anon Family Group Head Inc ISBN: 0910034311 Publisher: AFG (Al Anon Family Group) Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie ISBN: 0894864025 Publisher: Hazelden Information Education Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Al-Anons Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions ISBN: 0910034249 Publisher: AFG (Al Anon Family Group) Pub. Date: December, 1981 List Price(USD): $9.25 |
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Title: How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics by Al-Anon Family Group Head Inc ISBN: 0910034265 Publisher: AFG (Al Anon Family Group) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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