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With prayer I say I am willing to be helped.
Al-Anon Family Groups • Courage to Change—One Day at a Time in Al‑Anon II
had to be confidential, if he wished.
Alcoholics Anonymous World Service Inc. • Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
After one lunchtime meeting, at which I briefly speak—I shakily begin, “My son is in rehab again”—a woman approaches and timidly hands me a pamphlet called “3 Views of Al-Anon.” “It helps me,” she says. At home, I read it. From “Letter from an Addict” in the pamphlet: “Don’t accept my promises. I’ll promise anything to get off the hook. But the nat
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I wasn’t aware of the family secret until I came into ACA.
ACA WSO INC. • ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
through the Twelve Step program of ACA that we no longer live life from a basis of fear. We live with self-care and love.
ACA WSO INC. • ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
W e, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are more than one hundred men and women who have re-covered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.
Alcoholics Anonymous • Foreword to First Edition
- 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