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Bridge of Light

by Veronica A. | Nov 1, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine

The space between “Me” and “I am”Is the place where wrong meets don’t belong.Self and identity, privileges deniedI struggle to breathe and learn to hide. Here on the shore of a foreign seaBuried treasure revealed at low tide sweepStarving gull pecks at scraps and...

The Better Triangle

by Mary H. | Jun 1, 2022 | ACA Boundaries, ComLine

I’m good. . . I’m blameless. . . I know I’m right. Where have I seen those phrases? They are from the Drama Triangle in the Traits Workbook. I saw myself. I would jump from Rescuer, trying to help someone because I did not know the difference between love and pity; to...

Waiting In Darkness: Discovering The True Self

by Celeste S. | Apr 1, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine

She is impatient. She is alone. She has been counting the minutes, the hours, the decades for him to return. He never comes. No one ever comes. Yes, people have passed by and dropped in for a spell. They have idle chatter and intertwine their lives. There is...

Rediscovering Art

by Colette B. | Feb 15, 2022 | ACA Toolbox, ComLine

When I was a teenager, I used to spend hours in my room writing, drawing, and painting. I created little worlds on the page, one after another: Paintings of angels with sprawling butterfly wings, long horizons glowing pink and orange in the sunset, soft human figures...