Family Dysfunction
Keep Coming Back
These three little words have formed the foundation of my recovery. Like my North Star, they point the way when I feel lost at sea. In typical adult-child fashion, my recovery has been full of high highs and low lows. Especially at the beginning, I found myself...
Currency Of Codependence
Growing up, I got the message loud and clear in cruel words and in abusive actions that I was unlovable, a bother, and that there was something inherently wrong with me. When I wasn’t at the end of my mother’s wrath and frustration, I was mostly ignored and forgotten....
Boundaries
I once chastised someone about using state lines as boundaries. Twenty minutes later I found myself making amends because I was using Country borders. Since coming to ACA I have come to understand that my family of origin, for generations, has had little or no...
Numb No More
When I entered recovery over two years ago, the left side of my body felt numb. There was nothing medically wrong with me. I was dissociated from my body. Slowly, I began to recapture feeling by doing dance.
Serenity in Music
Music seems to come from a different place. I feel like I can leave the hurt and channel a Higher Power inside of music. I came into ACA 19 months ago, and after a few months, I entered a group to work through the Twelve Steps Workbook. Periodically in the...
ABC/AWC on Zoom for 2022
Due to the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, WSO will hold its annual business conference (the ABC) and the Annual World Convention (AWC) on a fully virtual basis again this year. Although disappointed that we will not see each other in person, we are grateful...
Dwunasty Krok- początek. The Twelfth Step- a Beginning
Skończyłem szkołę. Dostałem dyplom i teraz jest czas na to by wprowadzić zdobytą wiedzę w życie. Tak widzę dwanaście kroków. Tak jakby koniec szkoły i poczatek dorosłego życia, a dwunasty krok jest dopiero początkiem a nie końcem, jak mi się wydawało na początku...
Ma Puissance Supériure Aimante
Salut, je suis Geneviève, de France. Les règles « Ne parle pas » et « Ne ressens rien » sont omniprésentes dans ma famille, mais côté confiance, la règle est: « Fais confiance aveuglément; laisse tout le monde abuser de toi et t’exploiter, tu ne mérites que ça ; tu ne...
Entering My Stone Circle
A stone circle made by my ancestorsis my sacred church spaceFifteen boundary stones facingthe large central stoneRound and flat toppedStanding atop other stonesBuried in the groundNext to each perimeter stoneStands one of my Divine guides and aidesOn the central stone...