12 Tips For The Holidays!
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Jo Murphy
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Jo Murphy
- There are ways Alcoholic Women
here are tweleve of them
- Line up extra AA activities or other voluntary projects.
- Host your own extra event either at home or at the local coffee shop
- Make sure you have a support list handy with telelphone numbers at all times.
- Find out about any extra holiday meetings and increase the number you attand
- Don't feel obliged to go to any functions at all. If there is a liklihood of the presence of alcohol or that you will become stressed and uncomfortable - don't feel you have to go.
- If you really can't avoid a function take an AA member or sympathetic friend with you
- Don't even think that you have to stay late. If you feel the need to go - go before you become desperate.
- Go to whatever church service is available don't feel you have to belong or that it has to be your own denomination
- Make sure you have prepared lots of substitute activities like sewing, art projects, DVDs and Movies. If you have to leave a venue because of pressure make sure you have something pleasant ready to take its place.
- Don't project about things you fear. One Day At A Time. One Hour At A Time. One Minute At A Time
- If you can't afford gifts - accept that as a fact and give the gift of time and your love.
- Feel no shame. Don't even consider embaressment if you can't 'stay the distance' at a function, or see certain people, or afford gifts like the others. The one gift you can give yourself and others this Christmas is to stay sober, happy and healthy. This is the most prescious one of all and once you have made it through - it will last to remind you all year to be grateful!
I wish you all a happy and gentle Christmas,
Jo
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