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Informationen zum Autor Anne Wilson Schaef Klappentext Here is a daily meditation book that addresses the need for humor in Twelve Step living. Each entry takes a humorous! ironic! or rueful look at such aspects of recovery as denial grandiosity! gratitude! and change. By turns irreverent and provocative! this little book can cause a lot of laughter and perhaps even aid in recovery. Introduction I come from a family where the quip, the tease, and the practical joke are all part of the daily fare. We spent a lot of time laughing and playing as I was growing up. The humor in our family was always done lovingly with a lot of tenderness that could be easily felt. We never knew when a practical joke was going to be played upon us and there was never an edge of hostility or anger which I have since learned is present in so many families. We were a simple family that didn't have much money but we sure had a lot of fun. There was an earthy hillbilly flavor in our family and our humor. This sense of humor has carried through my life and is, I believe, one of the greatest gifts I have had from my parents. One of the greatest encouragements for growth in our family was being lovingly teased into a new awareness. Hence, I grew up learning to laugh at myself first and then to laugh with others at our human foibles without any judgment being attached. In my family, we took life seriously and we also played with it. Often what could have been turned into a tragedy or holocaust was turned into a giggle or a guffaw. A flat tire that became a picnic; my mother's single-handed dismantling and packing of our campground because she thought she heard a mountain lion in the bushes; the time we were stuck in the sand up to our axle; or the time my mother, father, boyfriend, and I took a jeep trail in Oregon in our sedan too early in the season and my dad got out to see why we were stuck (it was dark!) and stepped into an icy puddle up to his crotch and uttered the first and last swearword I have ever heard from himDamn! We had to spend the night in the car, but not until we faced the suppressed giggles that kept the car shaking and had a good laugh about my father's one foray into swearing. All of these incidents became family lore, told over and over (often embellished over the years) as we laughed at ourselves and each other. Consequently my work is laced with a lot of laughter. I think that somewhere down deep I intuitively believe that humorless people are really dangerous and, at best, I just don't comprehend them. So, at my speeches, in the intensives, at the trainings, and in my life there is much humor, much laughter, much cutting up, and great one-liners. Hence, you can imagine my delighted relief when I discovered that people in recovery were funny. They laughed at themselves, they laughed at the disease, they laughed at their disease, and they shared jokes that only recovering folks could understand. At first, I thought that some of the humor I heard in recovering circles was a little tough or hard. After a while I realized that it was tough and hard because it was true. Good humor is usually profound. And profundities are often best accepted when they are uttered humorously! I saw how healing the recovering humor was. For example, Sam Meier (Serenity Sam), a well-known speaker and humorist in recovery circles, tells the story of an amazing Alcoholics Anonymous group he experienced early in recovery. That was an amazing group, he states. We had one guy in the group who had a kid who was sniffing gasoline. He would come home and find him passed out on the lawn and he would say, That damned kid, I don't know whether he's dead or vapor-locked! Gallows humor? One had to be there to get the full impact. Humor is really only possible if we personally know that place. Or Sam talks about a time when he had been in recovery for several years, was ...
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Anne Wilson Schaef
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Here is a daily meditation book that addresses the need for humor in Twelve Step living. Each entry takes a humorous, ironic, or rueful look at such aspects of recovery as denial grandiosity, gratitude, and change. By turns irreverent and provocative, this little book can cause a lot of laughter and perhaps even aid in recovery.
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Introduction
 
I come from a family where the quip, the tease, and the practical joke are all part of the daily fare. We spent a lot of time laughing and playing as I was growing up. The humor in our family was always done lovingly with a lot of tenderness that could be easily felt. We never knew when a practical joke was going to be played upon us and there was never an edge of hostility or anger which I have since learned is present in so many families. We were a simple family that didn’t have much money but we sure had a lot of fun.
 
There was an earthy “hillbilly” flavor in our family and our humor. This sense of humor has carried through my life and is, I believe, one of the greatest gifts I have had from my parents. One of the greatest encouragements for growth in our family was being lovingly teased into a new awareness. Hence, I grew up learning to laugh at myself first and then to laugh with others at our human foibles without any judgment being attached.
 
In my family, we took life seriously and we also played with it. Often what could have been turned into a tragedy or holocaust was turned into a giggle or a guffaw. A flat tire that became a picnic; my mother’s single-handed dismantling and packing of our campground because she thought she heard a mountain lion in the bushes; the time we were stuck in the sand up to our axle; or the time my mother, father, boyfriend, and I took a jeep trail in Oregon in our sedan too early in the season and my dad got out to see why we were stuck (it was dark!) and stepped into an icy puddle up to his crotch and uttered the first and last swearword I have ever heard from him—“Damn!” We had to spend the night in the car, but not until we faced the suppressed giggles that kept the car shaking and had a good laugh about my father’s one foray into swearing. All of these incidents became family lore, told over and over (often embellished over the years) as we laughed at ourselves and each other.
 
Consequently my work is laced with a lot of laughter. I think that somewhere down deep I intuitively believe that humorless people are really dangerous and, at best, I just don’t comprehend them. So, at my speeches, in the intensives, at the trainings, and in my life there is much humor, much laughter, much “cutting up,” and great one-liners.
 
Hence, you can imagine my delighted relief when I discovered that people in recovery were funny. They laughed at themselves, they laughed at “the disease,” they laughed at their disease, and they shared jokes that only recovering folks could understand. At first, I thought that some of the humor I heard in recovering circles was a little tough or hard. After a while I realized that it was tough and hard because it was true. Good humor is usually profound. And profundities are often best accepted when they are uttered humorously!
 
I saw how healing the recovering humor was. For example, Sam Meier (Serenity Sam), a well-known speaker and humorist in recovery circles, tells the story of an amazing Alcoholics Anonymous group he experienced early in recovery. “That was an amazing group,” he states. “We had one guy in the group who had a kid who was sniffing gasoline. He would come home and find him passed out on the lawn and he would say, “That damned kid, I don’t know whether he’s dead or vapor-locked!” Gallows humor? One had to be there to get the full impact. Humor is really only possible if we personally know that place. Or Sam ta…