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Conglomo Food

by Lena L | Jun 15, 2024 | ACA Boundaries, ComLine

Brown bread in a can - soft, and with raisins, and no prep! Consistent. Available at any time. No love in it. Or was there?Sweet, predictable, always there. Packaged up from a conglomo company. Tater tots. Another conglomo food. Stuck in their little shape, unable to...

What’s the Payoff

by Lena L | Jun 15, 2024 | ACA Boundaries, ComLine

Verbal abuse, what’s the payoff?Distance, disconnection, abandonment.I don’t matter, I don’t belong; sense of community lost.No trust or accountability. No safety, no safe-harbor.Up in my tree as soon as I could get away.Comfort, nurture, understanding, support from...

WHAT AM I AFRAID OF? (BOUNDARIES!)

by Lena L | Apr 15, 2024 | ACA Boundaries

I looked up fears. Found…12 basic fears: Rejection, Abandonment, Failure, Success, Being Lied To, Being Hurt (emotionally or physically), Being Intimidated, Being Exposed, Being Humiliated, Responsibility, The Unknown, and...

Découvir Les Frontiéres

by Geneviève R. | Apr 1, 2024 | ACA Boundaries, ComLine

En tant qu’adolescente souffrant d’obsessions suicidaires, j’avais de grandes difficultés à respecter la limite suprême entre vie et mort. Trop, c’est trop. Les soi-disant « soins psychiatriques » empiraient ces obsessions : un comble ! Il m’aura fallu quatre...

SOBRIETY IS THE LIMIT

by Geneviève R. | Jan 1, 2024 | ACA Boundaries

Years ago, I discovered the notion of limits, and the fact that I had none. I learned to set one.A friend attending regularly a 12-Step meeting was in dire straits: years ago, she had left a violent husband, and was by then living on social welfare with her four...

Spiritual Inclusion in ACA Literature

by Anonymous | Nov 15, 2023 | ACA Boundaries, ComLine

The 2021 ACA Annual Business Conference adopted a motion for the Literature Committee to plan “a revised edition of the Big Red Book to be more inclusive of all experiences of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion/spirituality, and a broader range of...

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