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ACA Boundaries
Successfully setting and enforcing boundaries
ACA And The Arts
Music, Poetry, Drawings and Other Arts
ACA Toolbox
Experiences in using ACA recovery tools.
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International membership issues and experiences
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The ACA World Services Office and its activities
Voices of Recovery
Sharing experience, strength, and hope in ACA recovery
MY PAINTING
If I were to paint a picture, would it be with paint or mud? I am not an artist, so I know it wouldn’t look realistic no matter what tools are used. Would I finger paint or use brushes? What would make my inner child most happy? I was often taught how to paint the...
TO SCREAM THE UNSCREAMABLE SCREAM
Oh, for lungs to scream a scream that would fully express my grief, that would shake the earth,that would crumble the hillside in front of me. My first memory of daddy-Monster:I am three years old.I receive his fists as I lie in bed.He yells, “It’s your...
Sisters
two sisters, home alonemom working as a teacherdad is a ghost, not aroundmom workingthe fighting, the tearsdad is a ghost, not aroundlocking herself in our mom's roomthe fighting, the tearsno way to call momlocking herself in our mom's roomi am helpless,...
My First Quarterly Meeting
I came into the ’12 Step Recovery World’ over 30 years ago, ab“soul” utely b-r-o-k-e-n, having fallen beside the hearts of those who had walked before me to eventually crawl myself back into a body of dignity, hope and strength. One year ago, I found ACA and it is...