Sublime

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.

“Oh, my dear . . .” Phoebe said tenderly. “You’re the brother who taught Raphael to sail a skiff, and showed Justin how to tie his shoes. You’re the man who carried Henry down to the trout stream, when he wanted to go fishing one last time.”

“Joining through the truth” is the Relational Life therapist’s art of loving confrontation: we hold up the mirror of difficult truths and do not shrink from our role as mentor and coach.

Invoke a strong sense of human agency and responsibility.

We begin to see that our smallness was a bill of goods that we bought. In that investigation, we will stumble upon our own inner innocence. When we rediscover it, we can let go of a lot of guilt. When the guilt goes, necessity for self-punishment goes with it, and that lifts us right out of apathy and depression. We can choose to revalidate ourselv

The collection of parts that these traditions call the ego are protectors who are simply trying to keep us safe and are reacting to and containing other parts that carry emotions and memories from past traumas that we have locked away inside.

God is the hero of the story.

This is a picture of Christ, and it’s fitting, because Christ, the older brother, offers Himself for the guilt of us, the younger brother.