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| Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference . |
| TWELVE STEPS OF NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP 1.We admitted we were powerless over the Addict -- that our lives had become unmanageable. 2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 4.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5.Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6.Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. 7.Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8.Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9.Made direct amends to such people whenever possible except when to do so would injure them or others. 10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12.Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. |
| Do You Need Nar-Anon? Ask yourself the following questions and answer them as honestly as you can: ~ Do you find yourself making excuses, lying or covering up for your child, spouse, relative or friend? ~ Do you have reason not to trust your child, spouse, relative or friend? ~ Is it becoming difficult for you to believe his/her explanations? ~ Do you lie awake worrying about your child, spouse, relative or friend? ~ Is your child missing school without your knowledge? ~ Is your spouse missing work and are the bills piling up? ~ Are your savings mysteriously disappearing? ~ Are the unanswered questions causing hostility and undermining your marriage? ~ Are you asking yourself, "what's wrong?" and "is it my fault?" ~ Are your suspicions turning you into a detective and are you afraid of what you might find? ~ Are normal family disagreements becoming hostile and violent? ~ Are you canceling your social functions with vague excuses? ~ Are you becoming increasingly reluctant to invite friends to your home? ~ Is concern for your spouse, child or friend causing you headaches, a knotty stomach and extreme anxiety? ~ Is your spouse/child easily irritated by minute matters? ~ Does you whole life seem a nightmare? ~ Are you unable to discuss the situation with friends or relatives because of embarrassment? ~ Are your attempts at control frustrating? ~ Do you over compensate and try not to make waves? ~ Do you keep trying to make things better and nothing helps? ~ Are the life styles and friends of the child/spouse changing? Do you ever think they may be using drugs? If you have answered Yes to four or more of these questions, Nar-Anon may be able to give you the answers you are looking for. About Addiction: We have learned that addiction is an illness -- not a moral issue. It is a two-fold disease: A physical allergy coupled with an obsession of the mind. It can be arrested but never cured. It is similar in nature to diabetes in this respect. Only complete abstinence, from the use of drugs or alcohol in any form including medicine, can arrest this disease. We can no more prevent the addict's use of drugs than we can stop the tubercular's coughing. No one, not even the doctor, nor the clergy, nor the family can do this for him or her. We have found that compulsive use of drugs does not indicate lack of affection for the family. It is not a matter of love but of illness. The addict has lost the power of choice in the matter of drugs. Even when he knows what will happen when he takes the first drink, pill or fix he will do so. This is the "insanity" we speak of in regard to this illness. When we fully understand and accept that addiction is a disease, that it is both mental and physical, and that we are powerless over it, we become ready to learn a better way to live. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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