What
follows is quoted from Nar-Anon:The Family group is primarily for you who know or have
known a feeling of desperation concerning the addiction problem of someone very near
to you. We have traveled that unhappy road too and found the answer with serenity
and peace of mind. When you come into the family group you are no longer alone but
among true friends who understand your problems as few others could. We will respect
your confidence and anonymity as we know you will respect ours. We hope to give you
the assurance that no situation is too difficult and no unhappiness is too great to be
overcome.
Our program, which is not a religious one but a spiritual way of life is based on the
12 suggested steps of Narcotics Anonymous. We have found that the working of these steps
will bring the solution to ractically any problem. We urge you to take this program
and its 12 steps seriously. It has been helpful to us as the NA program is to the
addict. We only ask for the wisdom and courage to see oursevles as we really are, to do
something about ourselves with the help of a higher power as understand this, and for the
grace to release our addicts with love and cease trying to change them.
Keep an open mind and attend as many meetings as possible. Feel free to ask
questions and to enter into the discussions. You will soon make new friends and feel very
much a part of the group.
With the understanding that addiction is a disease and the realization that we are
powerless over it as well as over over people's lives, we are ready to do something useful
and constructive with our own. Then, and only then can we be of any help to others.
HELPING
Your role as helper is not to DO Things for the person you are helping, but to BE
things, not to try to train and change his/her actions, but to train and change your
reactions. As you change your negatives to positives -- fear to faith; contempt for what
he does to respect for the potential within him/ her; rejection to relase with love, not
trying to make him/her fit a standard or image, or expecting him to measure up to or down
from that standard, but giving him an opportunity to become himself/herself, to develop
the best within him/her, regardless of what that best may be; dominance to
encouragement, panic to serenity; fales-hope, self-centered, to real hope,
God-centered; the rebellion of despair to the energy of personal revolution; driving to
guidance; and self-justification to self-undesrstand -- as you change in such ways as
these, you change the world aout you and all the people in your world for the better.
"To Watch is not to love" - Dr.Carl Jung
Drug Rehab Program