Take It
Take it all my God It's all Yours You gave it to me I give it back Block what is not good for me; dear Heavenly Father Allow what is right for me. You're my Father I'm Your Child. Not my will. Thy Will be done. AMEN
Rediscovering Art
When I was a teenager, I used to spend hours in my room writing, drawing, and painting. I created little worlds on the page, one after another: Paintings of angels with sprawling butterfly wings, long horizons glowing pink and orange in the sunset, soft human figures...
Groups/Meetings To Vote On ABC Ballot Proposals
Every ACA Group (or Meeting) has an opportunity and responsibility to express the group’s opinion on which (if any) of thirteen proposals should be placed on the agenda for consideration by delegates to the 2022 Annual Business Conference (ABC). These proposals for...
Betydelsen Av Översattad Litteratur
Vilket språk du väljer för att uttrycka känslor beror på var, när och hur du har lärt dig språket. De flesta uttrycker sina känslor på sitt modersmål. I Sverige lär de flesta av oss engelska i skolan. Så engelska är inte vårt första språk. Även flerspråkiga människor...
Run
Shoving all my socks down deep inside the duffel. The pink one I borrowed from Sam.Throwing open my dresser, where is my sweater? It may get cold there—somewhere.Closing my bag, I look around my sunshine colored room, but all I see is darkness.Sneaking quietly out the...
My Art
Emotional Sobriety
Restless, irritable and discontented,Filled with rage and pain and shame,Adult child was my nameAnd toxic shaming was my game.But ACA changed all that for me -Helped me escape the tyranny of my toxic family history; Taught me a whole new way to be…I’ve...
Today I Stood Up For Myself For The First Time
Hi Berlinda ACA of child molestation physical verbal and physical and abuse all by the hands of my mother I was molested constantly from the age of 10 to 14 all I knew was pain in my life my mother was a prostitute and she sold me as well as herself so at any given...
My Healing Journey
MY HEALING JOURNEY (watercolor collage made during 9-month yellow book step study) Top left: God's music at my birth. (baby’s feet and musical notes) Below musical notes: My five-year-old on a swing. Her little heart is broken. Her wounded parts are...
Steps Seven, Eight, Nine
STEPS SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE Hi, I’m an ACA old timer. I’ve been a sober member of AA since 1975, but I was always a primary ACA. I learned Inner Child reparenting tools and explored using them with the Steps in 1984 to find and replace my “hook” to smoking...