Originally Posted by
Obladi 
During group, we veered all over the place again, only more so. It seems that people have trouble staying on topic. This is going to be a challenge for me as we go along and the novelty wears off. The best way I can think of to handle it at the moment is as an exercise in not having control. As in, it's not the way I would (or do) run my meetings, but this isn't my workplace and I'm not the boss nor the expert, so maybe I can learn some tolerance and humility. (Maybe "on topic" is not the most important thing for this person today, What can I learn from what IS?)
Obladi, glad you're going strong again.
I think you've got it right in this paragraph. Either in treatment or in my various finance-rehabilitating situations over the last few months, I've been annoyed and impatient past what I thought was my breaking point a whole lot of times, but been unable to do anything about it. It's really been good for my sobriety and I'm glad you recognize it'll be good for yours. I went to inpatient rehab which was an excruciating loss of control. And the place was brand new, so it was all kinds of chaotic and disorganized to boot. And I seriously think that that was very, very good for me. That was the serenity prayer put into practice eight thousand times daily. It was incredibly hard but I was a much more patient person when I left that place than when I went in. Hope you get the same effect, keep looking for those silver linings.