[Magdalen] Heather Cook

[Lynn Ronkainen]

A note on the variety of recovery programs related to alcohol... Alanon is 
for friends/family of an alcoholic, Alateen, is for the children of an 
alcoholic, ACA is for people who grew up in an alcoholic family but may have 
not identified problems with themselves being related to alcohol until they 
were adults.. note this group also includes people who grew up in 
dysfunctional families, and often includes alcoholics who have gained some 
significant recovery.

Important news for those who may not be aware of the role of these ancillary 
groups, for people whose lives were/are touched by alcohol, is that these 
groups are all about the individual themselves, attending the group, NOT the 
alcoholic in their life, earlier life, or former life. They are not in their 
group to help, cure or fix the person who drinks  and who may be the reason 
they decided to seek out a solution in one of these programs.

It is also important to realize that groups are self-run and each group is 
only as healthy as the people in it trying to become healthy, hopefully with 
a history of some old timers who pass it on/down. Each member strives for 
honesty about themselves in order to begin to unravel their own issues and 
begin to change their life.

Lynn


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From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 5:42 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Heather Cook

> Not everyone who drinks is an alcoholic, Don, therefore not everyone needs
> a recovery organization. However, if one's partner drinks abusively, it
> does affect one. And that's all I have to say on the matter.
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:37 PM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I hear good things about Rational Recovery and about SMART recovery.
>> Janice certainly finds Women for Sobriety (the org that Jean Kirkpatrick
>> founded) excellent for her needs.  I stopped drinking when Janice went 
>> into
>> rehab, but have not gotten involved with any recovery organization. 
>> (save
>> that J and I are such an organization in our own small way).
>>
>>
>>