The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
I love to hear people's personal slogans that work for them Do you have any to share--please do!!
I can relate to the recent shares I heard at a meeting on the personal slogan: JADE—(do not Justify-Argue-Defend or Eplain) I was youngest in family & had all these "adults" ordering me around and telling me what was best yada yada I felt I owed evreyone I met an explaination or justification, defense and very little argument from me.
So I always felt like an adult child literally a child in an adult’s body—it took lots of al-anon and self searching to get to bottom of this and be my own person adult child meetings helped me a lot for a time,
But I found it was easy there to stare and not just look back on this stuff-I could get tooo stuck from focusing on it too closely and hearing it all the time—I learned here and in regular al-anon to look but not stare
Another good personal slogan I heard was: To face trace and erase the issues, I need to accept them (face), see why I still do them (trace) and erase it by giving myself what I need in a healthier way or trying on a new behavior in its place(erase).
Please share some of your own slogans that help and why they help--it will be a great thread of hope for us all.
Peace and love,
Luv
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Wishing all the best on your recovery journey, Luv