Sharing in the first person promotes self responsibility by divulging information only about yourself.

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I have the right to laugh, to play, to have fun, and the freedom to celebrate this life, right here, right now. In Chapters 1-9, Laying a Foundation for Reparenting, you will awaken your loving parent and identify and connect with your inner family. The ACA Traditions outline fellowship unity, group autonomy, and the ultimate authority of ACA - a loving God - as expressed in our group conscience.Chapter 7 Study: introduces ACA newcomers to the ACA Steps and is a renewal for the experienced member to the Steps, and their various adaptations, have brought sure hope and a better way of life to those who desire change. Loving Parent ➢ The Inner Child – True Self ➢ Tools and Techniques for Connecting with Our Inner Child ➢ Identify Our Critical Parent ➢ ACA Experience: Loving Parent and Inner Child ➢ What is a Loving Parent? For example, if you’re currently subscribed to both the Traveler and Daily Meditation and only wish to receive the Traveler, select Traveler below and leave the Daily Meditation unchecked. Most Fellow World Travelers meetings are audio only, please do not use the video function, unless it is written at the meeting information. The ACA Twelve Traditions provide guidelines for group conduct just as the ACA Steps provide guidelines for individual recovery.

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The book provides guidance on creating the conditions to reclaim your inner child and reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect. Reparenting ourselves can mean many things, but the central theme is that we are willing to challenge our critical, inner voice and to care for the child within.

This is an important step for us as we develop our own identity that is different than our dysfunctional family role. We are not saying relationships become workable overnight, but they also are not as impossible as we once thought.

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The Traditions offer wisdom on being self-supporting as a fellowship and on avoiding promotion when attracting new members. These attempts at control led us through a maze of failed experiments and trapped us in the insanity of trying the same things over and over with the same failing results. In keeping with Traditions of the program, and to protect the anonymity of others, we suggest that you participate from a quiet, private location where you will not be interrupted by anyone, including children, babies or pets. Our Self Care Sunday meeting is a nurturing space to focus on things we can do to care for ourselves while being our own Loving Parents.Some of us in ACA found God’s will to be the way we lived our lives when we were in conscious contact with our Higher Power. However, Adult Children of Alcoholics is often the only program for many adult children recovering from the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, including the effects of alcoholism and drug addiction. We were convinced that if only we could figure it out, we would do whatever was necessary to be rid of our affliction.

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In Step Three, we made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power. These meetings depend on fellows doing service as chair, secretary or host of a meeting or helping screen sharing or mic monitoring. I” statements build my self respect while offering others a true opportunity to have a real relationship with me.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Franciscan Richard Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in 1987 because he saw a deep need for the integration of both action and contemplation. The Fellowship Text chapter 8 is entitled “The Solution: Becoming Your Own Loving Parent”, however, the concepts of loving parent and inner child are interwoven throughout the ACA program and literature.