Hair
Monique J.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Racial Trauma Inventory
Coming into ACA meeting Zoom land, I was initially reticent at putting on my camera in a mostly white environment, ashamed of my face. On a few occasions, when I have switched on my camera mid-share, others have been abruptly turned off. Having said that, I have...
This is a first telling of my story.
This is a first telling of my story. Nine images and two poems. When combined sequentially they illustrate the "big picture" while each individual file offers a specific slice of life. My voice was stolen from me as a child and at 50 I am finally learning how to...
ACA Amendments
This article is my ACA Amendments. They are the evidence of the healing that came from learning and applying the ACA Bill of Rights. Definitions from Google:A Bill is a proposal for new laws or a change to an existing law.Amendment is a formal change to a law,...
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...