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ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
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we had carried the disease with us in the form of persistent fear and distorted thinking. This is para-alcoholism as we know it.
ACA WSO Inc. • Twelve Steps of Adult Children: Steps Workbook
We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us.
ACA WSO INC. • ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
As part of this process, we begin to grieve and heal the losses we’ve experienced, both because of our own actions and the actions of those who raised us. We learn to give ourselves unconditional love and draw upon the energy of other ACAs and our Higher Power. We embrace this positive support system that can get us through our darkest days.
ACA WSO INC. • Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families
Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs.
A.A. World Services Inc • Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
Such is the paradox of A.A. regeneration: strength arising out of complete defeat and weakness, the loss of one’s old life as a condition for finding a new one.
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS COMES OF AGE, p. 46
A thousand beatings by John Barleycorn did not encourage me to admit defeat. I believed it was my moral obligation to conquer my... See more
We have “stuffed” our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings
ACA WSO INC. • ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS/DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES: Big Red Book
Adults from divorced homes understand shame and confusion and also identify in ACA.