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Al-Anon Family Group Al-Anon is a support group for family members of those who are struggling with alcoholism and using the twelve-step model (Fisher & Harrison, 2013). It is a program designed for people who want to recover from the effects of someone else’s drinking. The sole purpose of Al-Anon is to help families of alcoholics. Members share their experiences with others and learn how to apply the principles of the twelve-step program to their specific situations. Members of Al-Anon learn…

deep affection.” Love should not be put that simply, it is much more than that and there are many different forms of it. There are many different ways that love can be shown. When people say the words “love” and “affection.” You automatically think hugs and kisses and the mushy sort of love that is the basic stereotype of love. However, there are different ways to show…

the front door, and dropped my backpack on the floor in the living room. My keys lay on the front table, and I practically sprinted to the kitchen to see my grandpa. He stood in front of our island, with a chocolate cake. I raced around the island to hug him. “Did it go through?” I questioned. “Finally, with flying colors.” He reassured, “Congratulations.” My birth certificate laid on the kitchen table still, with mailing addresses on it that would send it to the state court house to change my…

tight hugs, and soft laughs together. On Valentine’s Day, this couple will exchange small, but meaningful, gifts of fresh flowers, stuffed animals, balloons, or chocolates. In this relationship, everything appears to be normal. Recently, a newer, more popular relationship has emerged. This relationship is much different than the type people are already familiar with today. This is the type of relationship where the couples do not hold hands and walk together. They do not steal kisses or hugs,…

Swanson (1993) determined that the caring process of being with expresses to whoever is being cared for that they and their experiences matters to the caregiver. It is extremely important to convey this message to the clients at my service learning site, The Arbors of Bedford, because, as the site director explained to me, people suffering with dementia often struggle with depression and loneliness. At my site I most commonly see and partake in the caring sub dimensions of being there, conveying…

The Little Prince There once was a kingdom, it was a very chaotic place but it was a place many called home. A king and queen had ruled there for a very long time and the Queen even went on to have a child. But tragedy befell the kingdom not long after the birth. During the wondrous masquerade ball thrown in order to celebrate the dear healthy baby boy's birth the king started feeling ill. Not wanting to tell anyone the king smiled and said he needed to take a break. He sat on his thrown…

The alarms had been going off on November 15th at 10:58. Jessi had been working on her files that she had not finished. “What I am I going to do with all of these papers” pleaded Jessi. Jessi was an average 24 year old girl who lived with her 21 year old sister Kim in an apartment. They both were in to the same kind of business. The good thing was they were just a building away from each other. Being close to each other was a thing they liked best, until last night. Everyone had been running…

“Happiness is not a goal. It’s a by-product of a life well lived.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) What makes you joyous? Does happiness mean when you love somebody and you will be loved back? Or is happiness when you feel joyful and full-filled when dreams come true? You will know happiness when you see it, purely it's difficult to define. With many criteria, we can find a lot of definitions of “happiness” and it depends on different people' thoughts, but the overall wish to guide a life without depression…

As I stepped through the doors at my first PFO retreat, I immediately felt inadequate. I was surrounded by talented, compassionate, articulate teens, but I just felt like a normal 15 year old. I remember thinking that I must've gotten in by accident, because there was no way that I measured up to what was expected of a PFO teen. The next day, my entire perspective changed. Throughout the retreat, people would write comments of gratitude about others on sticky notes and leave them on a board in…

Georgia I visit my cousin. When I see her , she cries. She cries because I look like her daughter who died at the age three because of being very ill. I’m always strong enough to not cry with her, all I do is walk over there , smile , and give her a hug. The opposite of courage is being a coward, chickening out of things, not standing up for yourself. Everyone has once , in their life backed out of something because they were scared. Going skydiving is something I would back out of myself,…