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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 . |
| NAR-ANON TRADITIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our group experience suggests that the unity of the Nar-Anon Family Groups depends upon our adherence to these traditions. 1.Our common welfare should come first: personal progress for the greatest number depends on unity. 2.For our group purposes there is but one authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants -- they do not govern. 3.The only requirements for membership are that there be a problem of addiction in a relative or friend. The relatives of addicts, when gathered together for mutual aid, may call themselves a Nar-Anon Family Group, provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation. 4.Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting other Nar-Anon Family Groups, or N.A. as a whole. 5.Each Nar-Anon Family Group has but one purpose: to help families of addicts. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of N.A. ourselves, by encouraging and understanding our addicted relatives, and by welcoming and giving comfort to families of addicts. 6.Our Family groups ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside enterprise, least problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim; but although a separate entity, we should always cooperate with Narcotics Anonymous. 7.Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions. 8.Nar-Anon Twelfth Step work should remain forever non-professional, but our service centers may employ special workers. 9.Our groups, as such ought never be organized, but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve. 10.The Nar-Anon Family Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy. 11.Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, films, internet and other forms of mass media. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all NA members. 12.Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities. |
| 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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