Alanon Meeting Tomorrow
 

RA is not working tomorrow. I'm going to that Saturday alanon meeting that was supposed to be my new thing. I hope it's good.. I'm praying for the jessicajoe experience where I can cry and share and a strange person touches my arm and I leave feeling....better...

So glad you are making time for yourself! I'm not a big crier, I never cry at Al-Anon meetings, but I do always leave feeling more peaceful, and much better. I'm sure you will too.

Afterwards, perhaps you could give yourself an hour to do something you enjoy, before heading back home. I didn't feel like talking a whole lot after meetings, but going for a walk, getting a hot chocolate, going window shopping, those were things that revived me in a way too. I was so used to scheduling my day in 15 minute increments in order to manage work, household stuff, 3 kids, etc., that an hour to do whatever the heck I wanted to do felt incredibly luxurious and restorative. It kind of let me marinate in that peaceful feeling too.

Hugs,
B

hey meg,

thats great about your meeting tomorrow. i hope you really get something out of it. the only saturday meeting i ever went to was huge, like over 40 people huge. it showed me the diversity of the disease and how it affects all walks of life.

meggem, glad you're going to make it to a meeting. Please let us know how it goes!

I hope you're lucky and find a good fit at the first meeting you attend. Remember, take what you like and leave the rest--I'd be SO surprised if you don't find SOMETHING that's useful to you there.

Hiya Meggem
I'm touching your arm from far away just in case the person next to you isn't strange enough.
Fingers crossed xx

Had a newbie at the Alanoon Lunch Time meeting yesterday.

Came around to her . . . She said, "I am new here, [deep breath], I can do this . . . " and just started sobbing.

Pretty adorable once you get used to all this.

The quicker they fall the better they get.

Sounds like your new thing could be a good thing.

btw, some folks can get pretty strange (I present myself as evidence). Hope your folks are not too strange. :)

Incidentally
I'm going tonight, I'm home from work and I'm buzzing about making calls and doing "stuff" I should have done months ago. Today at work I asked someone to help me(shock horror) with something I was unsure about rather than obsessing about it. I had a really, really good idea (that was completely non codie) about how to improve my relationship with a family member without any drama. I have had various conversations with what I think might actually be my HP including one where I thanked him for the blooming good mood that had nothing to do with my A and that I just couldn't seem to shake for a couple of hours this morning.
It seems the very thought of AlAnon makes me feel better.

Needed some improvement . . . .

The quicker we fall the better we get.

The quicker I fall the better I get.

Probably you, too.

Get Well, Soon.

Meg...I am so glad you are going!

((Hugs))