Anyone going to therapy or a meeting today?
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Anyone going to therapy or a meeting today?
I'm going to Alanon tonight. DS10 is going to Alateen/Alakid.
I hit an Alanon noon meeting yesterday, and part of an open AA meeting last night... when asked if I wanted to share, "pass" without giving my name sufficed. First time I've done that. It was bonding.They've done that, too.
I don't currently have a AA Big Book, so I asked to borrow one.
I hit an Alanon noon meeting yesterday, and part of an open AA meeting last night... when asked if I wanted to share, "pass" without giving my name sufficed. First time I've done that. It was bonding.They've done that, too.
I don't currently have a AA Big Book, so I asked to borrow one.
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And the therapist I left a message with called me back so I am also going for my first therapy appointment on Tuesday. I liked her over the phone so far and the location is pretty convenient. I told her which rehab my husband is at and she had never heard of it which I also sort of liked for some perverse reason. I'm sure it's because it's in California and we are very not in California.
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I just got home from seeing my therapist. It's the highlight of my week - there's just something so amazing to have a safe place, a safe person, where I can say anything I want to and will be loved and not judged for it.
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I just came back from an Al Anon meeting. After 6-ish months, this introvert is starting to feel "at home" with this particular group. (I also go to a second meeting on weekends because they have an attached Alateen group for Kid, but the weekend meeting is usually pretty big and I've found it to be a bit clique-y - people have their friends they've known forever and don't really talk to new attenders).
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I had therapy yesterday and an Al-Anon meeting last night. And in between a whole lot of what I am hoping is fairly-early-recovery nuttiness.
At this point I have kind of a triad. It goes like this:
At the Al-Anon meeting it seems to largely be about how I can help my qualifier by being a better person and how sick I am. And God forbid I should make a judgment about, for example, felonious behavior that could threaten a vulnerable person.
Here at SR.com, it's more about how the qualifier is kind of usually the dirty dog and I should fling him into the Pacific Ocean and maybe if I am in a good mood throw a life preserver in after him...maybe like 15 minutes later.
Then at therapy my therapist sort of keeps a line in between the two extremes.
I feel like between the three elements of the triad I can cobble together something useful. Usually
At this point I have kind of a triad. It goes like this:
At the Al-Anon meeting it seems to largely be about how I can help my qualifier by being a better person and how sick I am. And God forbid I should make a judgment about, for example, felonious behavior that could threaten a vulnerable person.
Here at SR.com, it's more about how the qualifier is kind of usually the dirty dog and I should fling him into the Pacific Ocean and maybe if I am in a good mood throw a life preserver in after him...maybe like 15 minutes later.
Then at therapy my therapist sort of keeps a line in between the two extremes.
I feel like between the three elements of the triad I can cobble together something useful. Usually
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