Taking Care Of My Inner Child
On a bad day, when I am triggered by something, it feels like I get sucked into the past. I become a small child, again. I bypass thought and get sucked into that dark room of abandonment and ‘aloneness’. There, I can hear my infant-self wailing.In one of these...
Milestones
The Big Red Book says that the return of feelings ushers in the second stage of recovery. This is an important milestone. When I entered recovery, I knew three words for feelings: happy, mad, and sad. I lacked the ability to experience or express the feelings that...
Boundaries and Boxes
On my first day volunteering at a non-profit food organization, I was given the task of moving heavy food boxes from the main floor to the basement.
The Healing Power of Silence
We use the steps, we use the meetings, we use the telephone.” This appears in the Solution, taken from the BRB. These are all valuable program tools….
Loving Parent Guidebook goes to Publication
After three and a half years of development, The Loving Parent Guidebook (LPG), an ACA WSO Literature Committee project introducing …
Our International Fellowship
In the months since the Global Members Subcommittee came into being, we have had so many experiences and learned so many lessons. Our strength has always been our Higher Powers, our Inner Children, our group decision-making using the Global Members’...
Support in Stages
My First Day in ACA …I remember when I first came through the ACA doors, I was feeling defeated, overwhelmed and full of shame that I could not shake off the effects of my childhood trauma.