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The Price Of Separation In A Dysfunctional Family
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External Loving Parent
I can’t relate to a loving parent inside me. I had to imagine an external loving parent as my father holding me in a “snuggly” , and supporting me, giving me empathy and love. I don’t even feel it is necessary for me to distinguish the negative voices, only my wounded...
Finding Belonging
Reaching out for help and connection didn’t come easily. Being an Adult Child, I scan new environments wondering, "Is this space safe?"; "Will I be accepted while revealing my True Self?" I asked myself these questions when I first joined ACA. As an immigrant,...
Hope (a haiku)
new thoughts swim upstreamshiny salmon leaping upsurprises airborne preposterous hopebursts through thunderous knowing,arcs over reason all at stake, glimpsessky, rocks, the world, us watchingplunges out of sight Deb B
Projection
I am fine. And then, out of the blue, I am not. Surreptitiously, It flows into and through me, slowly but completely, filling all the nooks and crannies of my being. I feel It in the body tension, the sense of emptiness, the loneliness: I am not enough, I am not doing...