Steps Seven, Eight, Nine
STEPS SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE Hi, I’m an ACA old timer. I’ve been a sober member of AA since 1975, but I was always a primary ACA. I learned Inner Child reparenting tools and explored using them with the Steps in 1984 to find and replace my “hook” to smoking...
Family Dysfunction
Keep Coming Back
These three little words have formed the foundation of my recovery. Like my North Star, they point the way when I feel lost at sea. In typical adult-child fashion, my recovery has been full of high highs and low lows. Especially at the beginning, I found myself...
Currency Of Codependence
Growing up, I got the message loud and clear in cruel words and in abusive actions that I was unlovable, a bother, and that there was something inherently wrong with me. When I wasn’t at the end of my mother’s wrath and frustration, I was mostly ignored and forgotten....