THE NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUP

HOME ~ CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA

MEETINGS ARE FRIDAY EVENINGS FROM 7:30 - 8:30 PM
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The Nar-Anon Family Group

The NarAnon Family Group is primarily for those who know or have known a feeling of desperation concerning the addiction problems of someone very close to them. Many have traveled that unhappy road too, and found a solution and comfort through attaining serenity and peace of mind.

By attending Nar-Anon Family Group meetings you are no longer alone but among friends who understand your problem as few others can. Your confidence and anonymity will be respected; all that is asked of you is that you give the same consideration to the other members. The Nar-Anon program is not religious; it is a spiritual way of life, based on the twelve suggested steps of Narcotics Anonymous. The hope is that you gain the confidence and find the assurance so that any problem can be overcome.

Members are urged to take this program and its twelve steps seriously. It has been found that working the steps can help bring the solution to practically any problem and working the steps has been as helpful to the families, as the Narcotics Anonymous program has been to the addict.

Keep an open mind and attend as many meetings as possible. Feel free to ask questions and enter into the discussions. You will soon make new friends and will feel very much a part of the group.

Helping the Addict

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 the addicts actions, but to train and change your reactions
• to change your negatives to positives
• to change fear to faith
• to change contempt for what the addict does to respect for the potential within the addict
• to change rejection to release with love
• to try not to make the addict fit a standard or image or expect him to measure up to or down from that standard, but to give the addict an opportunity to become themselves
• to develop the best within the addict, regardless of what that best may be
• to change dominance to encouragement
• to change panic to serenity
• to change false-hope, self-centered to real hope,God-centered
• to change the rebellion of despair to the energy of personal revolution
• to change driving to guidance
• to change self-justification to self-understanding

As you change in ways such as these, you change the world about you and all the people in your world for the better.

 

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

~ Jacob M. Braude ~