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Holiday Seasons are Hard for Adult Children With Painful Holiday Memories
Everyone who is or has been a part of a 12 step program knows that the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season is stressful for those of us who grew up in dysfunctional homes. A great way to deal with...
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Personal Recovery Excerpts From Adult Children Growing Up in Homes With...
Continuing our excerpts from Heroes in Recovery, today’s post is about how addiction affected the children living in a home controlled by addiction. 1. Wendy Lee Nentwig: I’m not in recover...
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An Overview of ACA/ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics)
Alcoholics Anonymous started in 1935 and has spawned over 200 different types of twelve step meetings. One of the first to deal with feelings was ACOA–Adult Children of Alcoholics. It was a formula...
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A Love Story About a Son’s Struggle With His Father’s Demons
I received an email from Jay Sullivan about his website, www.jsullivanartist.com. It is an amazing website which documents and highlights the journey Jay has made to come to grips as well as to grow...
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Using ACA Blogs to Change Our Emotions
“In the adult there lurks a child—an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and that calls for increasing care, attention, and education. This is the part of the human...
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The Adult Children of Alcoholics (Addicts) ACA
ACA is the 12 step program that helped me the most with emotional growth. I doubt that it would have been as effective had I not spent years working the 12 steps in AA prior to going to ACOA. I was...
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ACA/ACOA A-Z Link Directory
“When the family energy is focused on the problem of the adult rather than on the needs of the children, the results for the children are the state of not knowing they come first, the state of...
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ACA’s and Being in the Workplace–How We are at Work
The ACA Red Book taught me many solutions to the negative feelings I have had all my life. It is for sale here. I believe we live in a very codependent society. It doesn’t take long on a new job to...
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AA Big Book Online: They Nearly Lost All
From The Big Book Online: They Nearly Lost All: The fifteen stories in this group tell of alcoholism at its miserable worst. Many tried everything—hospitals, special treatments, sanitariums, asylums,...
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Repost About the Course of My Addiction Recovery Which Began Nov. 1976 (1)
In 1976, when I came to AA, there were few female members. In my 3rdmonth of recovery, I had a profound spiritual experience which I have related in another post. I quickly learned to shut up about God...
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