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My Healing Journey

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, 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...
Keep Coming Back

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

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....
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