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Alternative 12 Steps of Self Parenting - (Not ACoA approved)
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The 12 Steps to Self-Parenting Step 1 - Admitted our powerlessness to change our past - that our lives had become unmanageable and became willing to surrender our love and not to our fear. LINK TO THE DISCUSSION Step 2 - Find hope in the belief that recovery is possible through faith and an acceptance o...
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Step Work Board Information
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Hello everyone, Welcome to the Miracles In Progress 12 Step Recovery Forums "Step Work Board" at http://stepwork.activeboard.com If you registered on the Step Work Board on or before 10/4/10 your account on the board has been confirmed and validated, so all you need to do to interact on the Step W...
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Online Meeting Format Info.
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Our New Online Meeting Format
1. At the start of each scheduled meeting the chairperson will run a script (writing) that opens the meeting. This script only takes 1.5 minutes for group members to read as it is run. (acaopen1.txt)
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ACA Group Readings
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Miracles In Progress
ACA/ACOA Group
**The writings below are read at face to face ACA's meetings. Please read this so you can become familar with what ACA is, the do's and don't's, etc. Because of time contrains and the length of time it takes to place these writings in each online...
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My world turned around after my last post
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My little world fell apart on the weekend. If you remember my gratitude lists, they always included my animals. I love my cats as if they were my children and my pussy cat named Colin died on Monday. I don't feel strong enough to talk about it but I was a wreck and cried for days. I miss him terribly. My hus...
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Today's Gift
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Today's Gift 06-19 The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. --Moses Luzzatto This program promises many rewards for those who follow it, but it does not promise to be easy. We search our conscience for resentments and face them. None of us can progress in our re...
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Thought for the day
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Making Life Easier Life doesn't have to be hard. Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affai...
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Memories
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My brother and I made a little trip to our parents' first home, where we lived until I was probably about 4 or 5. I asked him to go with me because I thought it would help me pull some memories back, and I just wanted to see the house. It was the site of the beginning of our family and our parents' horrible rel...
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The Monday meeting starts in about twenty minutes.
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I am new to his forum. I have been in and out of counseling on and off for many years as a result of being an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. For the last 21 years I have been married to a wonderful man and haven't had to deal with the garbage I put to bed long ago. Recently my husband was diagnosed with Sleep Ap...
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Looking for help with numbing out
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I'm a member of Al-Anon and have been for about 2 months now. I am also an ACOA, but the meetings in my area are few and far between. And I had a... questionable experience last Monday at my regular Monday night meeting. It was the first time I ever shared in that particular meeting about the problem I have w...
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Balance
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Normally I'm on one side of life or the other - trying to figure out what 'balance' really is. I know that life with children has a wider range of emotions to offer. I know it widens the spectrum for my husband and I too. I was meditating this morning and some things that drifted by were thoughts of life w...
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Thought for the day
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Monday, June 17, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Surrender Master the lessons of your present circumstances. We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance. Avoidance is not the key; surrender o...
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Today's Gift
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Today's Gift 06-17 To stop behaving in a certain way is to risk the unfamiliar. --Jan Lloyd Old patterns grip us so tightly! Even when the behavior pinches us painfully, we are loathe to give it up. Its familiarity makes it tolerable, knowable, somewhat manageable, and far less scary than tryin...
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asking for a 2nd chance
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I can't sleep (it's after midnight)! I have a lot on my mind (mostly anxiousness and excitement for my upcoming vacation, but other things as well), and have been working out the best way to ask about this issue. Sometimes I think I know the answer, and then I convince myself of the opposite, and seemin...
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Happy Fathers Day : )
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To all the wonderful Dad's out there - thanks for being here and inspiring me to be a better parent through recovery and my HP - and YOU! Sunday, June 16, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Feeling Good Having boundaries doesn't complicate life; boundaries simplify life. Be...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Competition Between Martyrs "Yes, I know your spouse is an alcoholic, but my son is an alcoholic, and that's different. That's worse!" My pain is greater than yours! What an easy trap that can be for us. We are ou...
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still fighting urges and reactions
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I haven't posted for a while so wanted to just let you know that things are still moving along okay. Every day I see myself growing. It's hard sometimes to just let my husband be who he is, I still have the urge to mold him and change him, but when that comes up for me now, I realize these are my issues not his...
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Interesting Night
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Hello All. Went over to my parents house last night with my wife and kids to watch the basketball game. My mom was sober for 9 years, but recently started drinking again this last year. I found out about ACOA by trying to look for hiding places for my mom's alcohol when someone stopped me and told me I ne...
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Intimacy
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One of The Promises states - Our ability to share intimacy will grow within us. Although I have experienced this over the last year, it's mostly been with myself. I've been in what I like to think of as a Recovery Bubble. Relationships are a weak spot for me. Especially "romantic" ones. So, i...
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Not enough love to go around
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I've been reading some various articles about dysfunctional families on blogs lately. One made the point that in our FOOs there wasn't enough love to go around. That really hit me, and explains why two of my sisters do not like me. I'm the oldest in the family and was probably the favored child whic...
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just want to say hi
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Hi guys I haven't been posting much lately but I am here. Nice to see a few new names on the board!!!!!!!! Things have been going well for me the last week. A few minor annoyances that are life. Got my power and water bill in today and it is $2100 for 3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!! My husband goes back to work this af...
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the beginning
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So I've started this post about 5 different times, with 5 different topics. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. I've technically been working on my recovery for about 7 years. At least, that's how long I've realized I have the characteristics of an adult child, and I know why. I have had short burst...
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Thought for the day - How ironic to come home from skating to read this lol!
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Spontaneity and Fun Practice being spontaneous. Practice having fun. The joy of recovery is that we finally get to experiment. We get to learn new behaviors, and we don't have to do them perfectly. We only need to find a w...
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I went roller skating today for the first time in about 20 yrs!!!
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It was amazing. I was so scared of falling down because I have a bad back. But I realized that I could take it slow and stay on the carpet until I was sure I could handle it. So after sitting around for a while, I finally put on the roller skates (just getting them on was hard lol) and then I stood up. I felt o...
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Today's Gift
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A good garden may have some weeds. --Thomas Fuller Newcomer I've done a few things I'm not proud of, but isn't that part of being human? Other people aren't perfect either.Sponsor Looking honestly and unflinchingly at our behavior, while at the same time having compassion for ourselves, is a power...
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The Tuesday meeting is happening now.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go Moving Forward Much as we would like, we cannot bring everyone with us on this journey called recovery. We are not being disloyal by allowing ourselves to move forward. We don't have to wait for those we love to decide to chan...
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EX-pectations
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Hi Guys, Yesterday, the guy who broke up with me, about two years ago, contacted me. He was seriously one of the last people I would've expected to hear from again. The email was short and thanked me, because he is in therapy now and when we were together i suggested he see someone. So, I responded. I told h...
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