ACA Book Prices Increase
Our fellowship text, Adult Children of Alcoholics, often referred to as the Big Red Book, was first published in 2006. Its price was $15 then, and it is still $15 today. The ACA World Service Organization (WSO) has never raised prices on any of its literature. The WSO...
The Price Of Separation In A Dysfunctional Family
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External Loving Parent
I can’t relate to a loving parent inside me. I had to imagine an external loving parent as my father holding me in a “snuggly” , and supporting me, giving me empathy and love. I don’t even feel it is necessary for me to distinguish the negative voices, only my wounded...
Finding Belonging
Reaching out for help and connection didn’t come easily. Being an Adult Child, I scan new environments wondering, "Is this space safe?"; "Will I be accepted while revealing my True Self?" I asked myself these questions when I first joined ACA. As an immigrant,...
Hope (a haiku)
new thoughts swim upstreamshiny salmon leaping upsurprises airborne preposterous hopebursts through thunderous knowing,arcs over reason all at stake, glimpsessky, rocks, the world, us watchingplunges out of sight Deb B
At Ease
Remember your ease in the woods. Surrounded by big sister trees.Embraced by winds that whisper “Listen. See. Breathe…”Pine needle campfire you taste with your nose and a momentary whiff of syringa. The place that is no place. No street signs, no traffic, no...
Tony A Steps- Report And Advisory
The following is a report from the Literature Committee of ACA: At the Annual Business Conference of WSO held on May 6 and 7, 2022, delegates considered a ballot proposal that requested WSO to publish and otherwise distribute the “Tony A Steps.” These steps appear in...
I Am The Help
I hate the smell of whiskey filtered through unwashed skin. Half empty bottles. Ranting about politics with slurred speech and an ignorant point of view. If this was all he was I would not bother. I would leave him to die in his filth.But he is the one who raised and...
Welcome To The Proposal Process
Each year the ACA World Service Organization (WSO) issues a Call for Proposals to all registered groups. A group is either a meeting of ACA members, an Intergroup of meetings, or a registered WSO Region. These entities may offer a Proposal. Proposals...
Projection
I am fine. And then, out of the blue, I am not. Surreptitiously, It flows into and through me, slowly but completely, filling all the nooks and crannies of my being. I feel It in the body tension, the sense of emptiness, the loneliness: I am not enough, I am not doing...