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Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
- By attending ACA meetings and working with my sponsor I am being restored to clarity and sanity. 2) I am understanding the effects of addiction and family dysfunction in my adult life today. 3) I am coming to believe that it was insane to think that I caused my parents’ addiction or dysfunction. I was the child. They were the parents. 4) I am not u
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
helpful tip in working Step Two involves replacing the word “sanity” with “clarity.” By working Step Two, we gain clarity about how our family dysfunction affects us in our lives as adults. We gain clarity about our abandonment and internal shame. Many of us find Step Two sanity through clarity.
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
- I am willing to consider releasing some control in my life. 2) I am willing to call someone when I feel the urge to control another’s thoughts or actions. 3) I believe that real choice comes from the God of my understanding rather than my illusions of control and orderliness. 4) I desire real choice and discernment. 5) I surrender my family to God
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
The Higher Power is patient as it seeks to help the adult child find wholeness and integration of a divided self.
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
- I am willing to consider releasing some control in my life. 2) I am willing to call someone when I feel the urge to control another’s thoughts or actions. 3) I believe that real choice comes from the God of my understanding rather than my illusions of control and orderliness. 4) I desire real choice and discernment. 5) I surrender my family to God
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
Of all the issues facing adult children, control is an issue that seems to take more time and patience to lessen. As children growing up in dysfunctional and sometimes dangerous homes, we had to stay in control of our emotions and thoughts to survive. To show emotion or make the “wrong” move could mean harm or humiliation. Letting go of control can
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We unintentionally passed on our family insanity or distorted thinking.
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
helpful tip in working Step Two involves replacing the word “sanity” with “clarity.” By working Step Two, we gain clarity about how our family dysfunction affects us in our lives as adults. We gain clarity about our abandonment and internal shame. Many of us find Step Two sanity through clarity.
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
God. I am now ready that you should remove from me all my defects of character, which block me from accepting your divine love and living with true humility toward others. Renew my strength so that I might help myself and others along this path of recovery.”