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- Lois Wilson fell in love with a man whose alcoholism brought his life and their relationship to the brink before he began his personal recovery and helped found Alcoholics Anonymous. Lois and many of the other wives of early AA members also began to band together for mutual support, formalizing these meetings into Al-Anon Family Groups in 1951.
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Lois Wilson (née Burnham; March 4, 1891 – October 5, 1988), also known as Lois W., was the co-founder of Al-Anon Family Groups, a 12-Step fellowship for the friends and family of alcoholics. [1] [2] She was the wife of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) co-founder Bill W.
Eventually, Lois polled the groups, and the Clearinghouse was renamed Al-Anon Family Groups. It now has over 29,000 groups worldwide and a membership of over 387,000. Lois founded the Stepping Stones Foundation in 1979 and served as its first president for almost a decade.
Lois was the widow of Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous. I knew about AA—I had started my career in newspapers and met plenty of hard-drinking reporters whose lives were saved by the organization and its 12-step program of recovery.
- William Borchert
As a direct result of Lois’s groundbreaking work in co-founding Al-Anon and the impact it has had on the field of alcohol and drug treatment, family recovery from alcoholism is a reality for millions of Americans today, and the hope, help, and healing of family recovery has become the most powerful way to break the intergenerational cycle of ...
A brief chronology of Al‑Anon’s history. For further details, see Many Voices, One Journey (B-31) and Lois Remembers (B-7). 1935. Lois W. recognized her need for recovery when in anger she threw a shoe at her husband, Bill W., cofounder of A.A. 1939.
Lois Wilson, also known as Lois W., founded Al-Anon 16 years after her husband founded Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Faced with the difficulties of supporting a recovering alcoholic in her own life, she created an organization for people like her.
Oct 24, 2005 · Years after her husband started AA and created the 12-step program, Lois Wilson co-founded Al-Anon, a 12-step organization for the spouses and family members of alcoholics.
