Dear Adult Children,
- Read about the fellowship’s new Concept Study Group and find out how you can join.
- “To My Child”
- The Power of Recognizing the Voice of your Inner Critical Parent by Ben B.
- ACA Every Day – Digital Daily Affirmations
- ACA Family Tree Art Workshop at MT Retreat a Huge Success
- “My Family Tree” workshop art by Jim K.
- Order from Chaos: Letting Go to Embrace a New Future by MT
- Becoming Your Own Loving Parent Guidebook Available for Fellowship Review
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Below are issues of the ComLine which you can download for free.
2019 ComLines
- “Finding Emotional Sobriety” New Trifold Helps AA Members
- The Promises Really Do Come True
- Daring to be the Real Me
- Deliverance at My House
ComLine Special Edition: Addressing Predatory Behavior.
This issue offers members’ shares on the topic of predatory behavior, as well as tools and suggestions for dealing with it, both as an individual and from within the group conscience process of your ACA meeting.
We see this collection of shares as a starting point for further discussion. Take what you like and leave the rest! Our hope is that you will find something in this issue of the ComLine that you can take back to your home group meeting, to help keep your meeting safe and recovery-oriented for everyone, particularly newcomers!
- “Finding Emotional Sobriety” New Trifold Helps AA Members
- The Promises Really Do Come True
- Daring to be the Real Me
- Deliverance at My House, and more!
- Step 7 – Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings
- My “Brother”
- Setting Myself Free
- Setting Boundaries Does Become Easier
- Delegates Vote on Ballot Proposals
- Where in the World is ACA?
- Where Does the Money Go?
- Exciting ACA News, updates, and how YOU can help!
- The growing up of the Inner Child
- The Gift of Reparenting Myself
- “Seed of Fear”
- Fly up High, Fall Down Low
- The “NonDom” Book
- Discovering My Loving Parent and My Inner Child(ren)
- Call for Shares: Loving Parent Guidebook
2018 ComLines
- Read about workshops, and our activities in Poland, Russia, and Spain.
- Make plans for attending the 2018 ACA World Convention in Toronto!
- Find out how others have found empowerment, clarity, and peace, and more!
Thanks to the efforts of translators in our Russian Fellowship, we now have a ComLine in Russian.
- Preparing for the 2018 ACA World Convention in Toronto, including important Delegates information
- Becoming Your Own Loving Parent
- Finding a Life Beyond Hurting
- Inner Child Rules the World
- Insights on translations and the language of our inner children
- Members’ experiences in Toronto at the 2018 ABC
- Poetry and a theater piece
- Introduction to Addressing Predatory Behavior
- Live to Heal, Then Heal to Live
- Hopping Off the Shame Train
- The Recovery Pool of Life
2017 ComLines
- Controlling and Being Controlled
- Whose Hands?
- Third Annual ACA European Meeting in Moscow!
- Tenth Anniversary Commemorative BRB
ABC 2017 Special Delegate Report
- Roberts Rules of Order and ACA
- Service Structure – Serving International Scope
- Delegate’s Corner
- Floor Motions
- Ballot Issue Results
- ABC & AWC Set Record Attendance
- Business Conference Agenda Items
- 2016 ABC Ballot Proposals
- 2017 Conference and Convention
- 2018 ABC/AWC planning
- 2017 ABC and 2nd Annual ACA World Convention (AWC) activities
- Applying Tradition Four in My Home Group
- Digging Deeper Into My Fourth Step
- “… and to another human being …”
- Breaking the Chain with Steps Four, Five, and Six
- “Secret Service” From a Space of Love
- World-Class Loving Inner Parent
- If You Know How to Live, You Know How to Die
- The CARE Corner
- European Committee Update
- Joyful meditation
- Releasing dysfunctional behaviors
- Finding healing after loss
- Living beyond mere survival
- and more!
2016 ComLines
- The Birth of the BRB
- Mingus Mountain Retreat for People in Recovery
- Updates on the 2016 ABC and the Inaugural ACA World Convention
- The Laundry Lists Workbook
- Inaugural ACA World Convention (AWC)
- Business Conference Agenda Items
- 2016 ABC Ballot Items
- 2017 Conference and Convention
- 2018 ABC/AWC planning
- and more!
- Working The Fourth Step
- Getting in touch with our feelings
- See Steps Four, Five, and Six around the world
- The WSO board and support staff
- Audio ACA Speaker Downloads
- Different types of sponsorship
- Shares, Affirmations, and The Gifts of Forgiveness
- Generational – NOT Intentional!
- Why write for the ComLine?
- Meeting in Moscow
- and more!
- Inaugural ACA World Convention (AWC)
- Business Conference Agenda Items
- 2016 ABC Ballot Items
- 2017 Conference and Convention
- 2018 ABC/AWC planning
- and more!
2015 ComLines
- The Inside Scoop on Intergroups
- Find a Meeting in Your Part of the World
- I Had a PhD in ACA
- Rapping with My Inner Child
- The Birth of ACA
- Beginning a Speakers Bureau
- The Languages of our Childhood
- Seventh Tradition Contributions
- Best Practices
Special Edition 2015 ABC ComLine
- Highlights of the 2015 Annual Business Conference
- Links to the ABC Agenda Items
- Ballot Items for the 2015 ABC Agenda
- Preview of the 2016 ABC and inaugural ACA World Convention (AWC)
- The ComLine is Back!
- We Have A New Web Site!
- How We Got the Big Red Book
- ABC In Austin
- and more…
2012 ComLines
- Retreating to a Place of Recovery
- The Outreach Committee Responds…
- “Living and Learning” — P.R.
- and more…
2011 ComLines
- An Important Message to the Fellowship
- The Outreach Committee Responds…
- “Taking My Program to Life”
- “Finding Home”
- and more…
- Lessons From The Road, a share from the editor
- The Outreach Committee Responds…
- A “Hospitals and Institutions” Invitation
- Guidance of the Higher Power, a share from Tokyo
- and more…
Annual Business Conference Report
- Attending to the Business of our Fellowship
- Annual Report to the Delegates and Visitors
- Minutes of the 2011 ABC
- and more…
- Gratitude, a Universal Language
- Making ACA History: ACA WSO Translations
- Spanish Workbook Revision Committee Report
- and more…
February ComLine – Identification, Before and After
- Identification, Before and After
- Out of the Playpen
- My Parents were not Monsters, just Alcoholics
- and more…
January ComLine – ACA Meditation Book Development
- Welcoming a New Year of ACA Recovery
- The Outreach Committee Responds…
- Sample Meditations from the Fellowship
- and more…
2010 ComLines
December ComLine – Tradition Twelve
- Tradition Twelve – Anonymity is the spiritual foundation …
- Courage to Trust – Eileen W.
- Hope Precedes Action – Leo D.
- and more…
November ComLine – Tradition Eleven
- Tradition Eleven – Our public relations policy …
- Gratitude for a Higher Will – Eileen W.
- Gratitude for the ACA Promises – Leo D.
- and more…
October ComLine – Tradition Ten
- ACA and Outside Issues – excerpt from the ACA Fellowship Text
- Finding Hope and Healing in ACA – Angela J.
- Tradition Ten: Avoiding Controversy and Emotional Intoxication – Omer G.
- and more…
September ComLine – Tradition Nine
- Tradition Nine of ACA – Omer G.
- Service Across the Sea – Memories of Denmark – George S.
- How to Start an ACA Intergroup or Regional Service Committee
- and more…
August ComLine – Tradition Eight
- Special Workers of the ACA Fellowship – DiAnne A.
- Seeing Growth Through Service – Gloria D.
- Tradition Eight in My Life – Leo D.
and more…
July ComLine – Tradition Seven
- Financial Wisdom from the ACA Fellowship Text
- Knowing Where My Dollar Goes – Rachele V.
- Discovering Financial Sobriety – Leo D.
- and more…
- Realizing Boundaries Through Tradition Six – Leo D.
- News from the Fellowship
- Hospitals and Institutions Meetings – an Introduction
and more…
Special Edition – Annual Business Conference
- Annual Report to the Fellowship
- Agenda Highlights
- Summary Minutes
- and more…
May ComLine – Tradition Five
- Contacting your ACA WSO
- Carrying and Delivering the ACA Message – Leo D.
- Every Group Carries a Message – Omer G.
- and more…
April ComLine – Tradition Four
- “A Key Word in Tradition Four” – Omer G.
- “Annual Business Conference Update
- “Registering your ACA Meeting with WSO
- and more…
March ComLine – Tradition Three
- “The Effects of Family Alcoholism” – Natalia K.
- “A Desire to Recover” – Anita R.
- “Giving My Self a Chance” – Leo D.
- and more…
February ComLine – Tradition Two
- Communicating with ACA WSO
- “Finding a Loving God”- Gayle W.
- An Invitation to Serve- Josie E.
- and more…
January ComLine – Tradition One
- Communicating with ACA WSO
- “Redefining Unity” – Shelley M.
- More Tradition One Insight
- and more…
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