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ON NEEDING FOOD AND LOVE AND ME

ON NEEDING FOOD AND LOVE AND ME

Can you please feed me? I’m sorry to bother you. Yes, I know I’m needy. Sorry about that. I’d like to not be hungry but my tummy is starting to hurt and I’m getting weak and shaky. I need food. I wish that was all I needed.  I need things that I dare not...
I BLOSSOMED DOING MY FIFTH STEP

I BLOSSOMED DOING MY FIFTH STEP

Working the steps in ACA helped me understand the adaptive behaviors I learned from the dysfunction in my family. I was raised in what looked like a pleasant upstanding home, but the covert atmosphere (no rage or physical abuse) left me wondering why I was not happy...
A CANDLE FOR ME

A CANDLE FOR ME

“I don’t create poetry, I create myself. For me, my poems are a way to me”. Edith SodergranIn grade five I wrote my first poemcalled, “Winter"in a little, red schoolhouseon a little, small deskwith my little, small handThe teacher promised to publish it.I think she...
BUT SOMEONE HAS IT WORSE

BUT SOMEONE HAS IT WORSE

How often I have heardthat someone has it worse.With eight billion people,this statement is certainly true.Yet this truth denies my truth –that my trauma is real –that my health was endangered –that my sanity was at risk.I grew up with domestic violence.Others have...
ACA Literature And Spiritual Language

ACA Literature And Spiritual Language

We know from ballot proposals submitted to our Annual Business Conference that our fellowship wants our literature to become more loving, gentle, and inclusive. In 2021, a ballot proposal was passed to update shares to include the lived experience of our worldwide...
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