Sublime

Some of us entered these rooms after finding that our other Twelve Step programs weren’t giving us the emotional sobriety we needed.

Many of our members who have worked remarkable Twelve Step programs in AA or Al-Anon come to ACA to further address their shame and feelings of being unwhole. They have made good progress elsewhere, but they sense something is missing. While working ACA’s Steps, these members may realize a new bottom or the work needed to seize a deeper sense of he

had to be confidential, if he wished.

1. 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

False Self – The addicted or codependent self.

In ACA, we believe we were born whole and became fragmented in body, mind, and spirit through abandonment and shame. We need help finding a way to return to our miracle state.

In ACA, we believe we were born whole and became fragmented in body, mind, and spirit through abandonment and shame. We need help finding a way to return to our miracle state.

caused us to look for love and acceptance through people-pleasing, caretaking, and approval-seeking.