Welcome to the District 23
Al-Anon/Alateen Family Website

Alcoholism is
a family
disease.

Living with the effects  of  someone's drinking is too devastating for most people to bear without help.
 
District 23 is located in Washington State, north of Lynnwood. It encompasses most of Snohomish County, including Everett, Snohomish, Monroe, Marysville, and Lake Stevens.
We offer more than 23 meetings in our district. You will find these listed on our Meeting Directory page, along with meeting times and addresses. For Alateen meeting information contact Alateen Coordinator Pam or  WA Area Al-Anon.
You will find information on accessing Phone Meetings offered everyday of the week, if you can't get out locally.
We hope you find in this fellowship the help and friendship we have been privileged to enjoy. We urge you to try our program. It has helped many of us find solutions that lead to serenity.
 
DETACHMENT
Detachment is neither kind nor unkind. It does not imply judgment or condemnation of the person or situation from which we are detaching. Separating ourselves from the adverse effects of another person's alcoholism can be a means of detaching: this does not necessarily require physical separation. Detachment can help us look at our situation realistically and objectively.
DETACHMENT ALLOWS US TO
  • Let go of our obsession with another person's behavior.    
  • Begin to lead happier and more manageable lives. 
  • Live with dignity, and rights, guided by a Power greater than ourselves.
  • Love the person without liking the behavior.     

IN AL-ANON WE LEARN DETACH WITH LOVE BY:
  • Not suffering because of the actions or reactions of other people.
  • Not allowing ourselves to be used or abused by others in the interest of another's recovery.
  • Not doing for others what they can do for themselves.
  • Not manipulating situations so others will eat, go to bed, get up, pay bills, not drink, or behave as we see fit.
  • Not covering up for another person's mistakes or misdeeds.
  • Not creating a crisis.
  • Not preventing a crisis if it is in the natural course of events.
  • Nothing we say or do can cause or stop someone's drinking.
  • We are not responsible for another person's disease or recovery from it.                                                              
By learning to focus on ourselves:
Our attitudes and well-being improves.
We allow the alcoholics in our lives to experience the consequences of their own actions.

The photographs on this Website are contributions by District 23 members all rights reserved.
If you would like to contribute a photograph please send it to the Web Coordinator located on the Service Positions Page.


The information on this Web Site

Information found through the links above have been reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA.