Palace of Mirrors
This song represents a time of darkness just before the dawn of my ACA recovery journey. Its meaning and feel have changed and grown from when I first wrote and recorded it. Over the nearly four years of my time in ACA, I have come back to it and listened with greater...
ACA Works on Internalized Racism
I’m a Filipina-American, with nine years in ACA. I did not grow up with alcoholism, drug addiction, or mental illness. I did grow up with immigrant trauma, intergenerational colonialist trauma, internalized racism, and a resulting set of stressed out hard-working...
Gas Plant Community
Carlos L. Gas Plant Community Carlos L.
My Story
My story begins in 1975 in an old told of Louisiana when I was three years old. I was a child of the consummation of Ralph retired US Navy, unattended military PTSD captain, and Pam vietnamese refugee Codependent mother of 5 children foreigner to US, naturalized...
HAIR
Monique J.
REFLECTIONS ON CROSSTALK
For me, this sacred element has been the single most important tenet of this program. Crosstalk absolutely hinders my recovery no matter how benign. I had my feelings, thoughts co-opted in childhood and in my closest relationships as an adult, in the name of...
LUSH LIFE
In college, I majored in Voice, but my studies took a backseat to a steady diet of cocktails and cigarettes. The school’s music program had a distinguished opera faculty that took the train from Manhattan to Poughkeepsie each week to give us lessons. I didn't care...
COME JOIN THE SPIRITUAL INCLUSION WORKING GROUP
Come join as The Spiritual Inclusion Working Group is continuing to make our program more spiritually inclusive, especially for newcomers, by opening to diverse spiritual and non-spiritual perspectives. What thoughts, considerations and ideas do you have? Come bring...
LIFE FORCE (HP) OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
Dew drop glistening with light shining through, drops to the ground only to slowly form againCherry blossoms bursting alive, proudly showing pink petals amid tangled branchesHeat waves from a roof vent shimmering like a mirage, reminder to be grateful...
INNER FAMILY ART
A page for my inner family's art journal. Together, we reflect on the solution and enjoy creating with our non-dominant hand and water color paint. Dawn G