When I first heard about ACA – Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families – I made a quick decision: this probably didn’t apply to me. Alcohol hadn’t really been part of my home growing up. There wasn’t anything I would have pointed to and said, this is...
When I first started coming around ACA, I heard people talk about how much their lives had changed. They spoke about breakthroughs, about finally feeling free, about becoming someone they didn’t think they could be. And I remember thinking… that’s great. But I don’t...
May we surrender all the people and things we are unable to change, right here right now.May we open our minds to Our Loving Higher Power to receive Its help and the clarity we need to see all the dysfunctional patterns we have introjected.May we voice the truth in...
Blue leather lounge chaircenter of the roomcenter of attentionsittingagingFox News blaringdecades gone byhate mongeringday and nightshe's hypnotized by hate to cover her loneliness3,000 miles awaythe distance felt as a betrayaleven 30 years laterI'm unforgivenHere in...
The Wall was her charm, her people-pleasing, her lies mixed with a deep care for me, her mother. The Wall was addiction. The Wall was the disconnect in our realities. I had wanted so much to believe that she had left her drug-of-choice in the rearview mirror, even...
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