The following ideas have helped me:
- Said by an al-anon member just before Christmas: “Someone should find Norman Rockwell’s body and put a take through his heart.”
- I don’t have to catch every stone thrown at me.
- The people that I love that have died, are not as far removed from me as I once thought.
- It is wonderful that I get to feel my feelings whether the feeling is shame, anger, serenity, joy or love.
- I need to stop throwing myself under the bus.
- AA helped me clean up my side of the street. Al-anon helped me stay on my side of the street.
- I don’t have to go through it any more alone than I choose.
- I don’t have to predict the future because I have the resources to deal with whatever happens.
- The main problem I have today is getting myself to ask for help.
- If God is timeless and experiences everything in the now, [I Am that I Am] my need is
George Caywood 