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Today I Stood Up For Myself For The First Time

by Berlinda C. | Feb 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery

Hi Berlinda ACA of child molestation physical verbal and physical and abuse all by the hands of my mother I was molested constantly from the age of 10 to 14 all I knew was pain in my life my mother was a prostitute and she sold me as well as herself so at any given...

Steps Seven, Eight, Nine

by Kathleen S. | Feb 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery

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

by Alison S. | Feb 15, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery

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...

Numb No More

by Anastasia S., Moscow | Jan 31, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery

When I entered recovery over two years ago, the left side of my body felt numb. There was nothing medically wrong with me. I was dissociated from my body. Slowly, I began to recapture feeling by doing dance. Recently, I went to a dance class and found the room...

I Believed My Little Girl

by Jane F. | Jan 24, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery

“Janie, oh how I dreaded that name! It made me sound like such a little kid when I was the only one that’s good for anything; daddy said so. They didn’t even have a real God. “Not like mine!”My little girl butts in, “You’re not writing this right”. “Quit trying and...

I Matter, I’m Whole, And I Am Never Alone

by Mary H. | Jan 24, 2022 | ComLine, Voices of Recovery

Living in the “if onlys” and “someday whens” I was always looking for something, someone, or someplace that would give me peace.Just as my alcoholic father and enabling mother, I was on a deadly continuum. I have primary addictive reactions that get me high or low,...

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Today I Stood Up For Myself For The First Time

Steps Seven, Eight, Nine

Keep Coming Back

Numb No More

I Believed My Little Girl

I Matter, I’m Whole, And I Am Never Alone

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