In Ian Cron’s book The Fix, he argues what we have known to be true for years: every human would benefit from AlAnon or Codependents Anonymous (CoDA). Ian challenges the reader who hasn’t found a 12 Step group that feels like home to just start one. So, we did just that! Power Hour is modeled after AlAnon and CoDA. The name is inspired from Cron’s quote, “As it turns out, powerlessness is a superpower. It’s where the healing begins.”
Hope for the Caretaker
Where AlAnon ministers to people affected by addicts in their lives, Power Hour is for the women who juggle it all: kids, spouses, aging parents, work, and endless laundry. We fix everything for everyone, sometimes at the expense of our own sanity. Before we know it, we find ourselves sick and tired of being sick and tired. When it feels impossible to shift out of survival mode, Power Hour is an opportunity to explore God’s call to surrender anxiety and control to Him in exchange for peace and joy.
Strategic Faith
We have hard things. And we have faith. The two are not mutually exclusive. The 12 Steps are a ‘How To’ guide for exercising our faith to find serenity in even the most difficult circumstances. We begin with the cornerstone Serenity Prayer. From there, the framework guide us to:
- Identify the people, behaviors, or substances (aka, “attachments”) that we try and fail to control. In other words, what are our persistent sources of anxiety or numbness?
- Learn to let go of our attachment(s) while improving relationships with:
- God (Steps 1-3)
- Ourselves (Steps 4-7)
- Others (Steps 8-12).
- Find meaningful community, comforted by the fact that we are not alone.
Nurturing Community
During Power Hour, we speak in confidence about our own experiences, and we listen without comment to what others share. Although it feels unnatural to a group of fixers, we are not here to fix other people. We work toward taking responsibility in our own lives, rather than giving advice to others. As the CoDA preamble states, it is our hope that women find here a new strength within to be that which God intended: PRECIOUS and FREE.
Power Hour Auburn 