Adult Children of Alcoholics: Starting Simple ~ A Newcomer Guide to ACoA
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Keep is simple. Pace yourself. Move forward and grow: ACA Recovery for Beginners.
Just starting out?
Welcome to the ACA, Adult Children of Alcoholics. This complex fellowship offers many routes for recovery. There is no need to feel overwhelmed. Despite all of the literature and workbooks, this is a 12 Step based fellowship. Walking in with shame, lack of trust, resentments and abandonment? You are not alone.
May I suggest a simple way to approach this fellowship if you are new? Here is a simplified guide to the ACA recovery process.
"The healing begins when we risk moving out of isolation..."
I'm Ken Francis, M.S., California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of The Intimacy Gram and The Gratitude Snorkel. With Covid-19 social distancing practices, I have had to stop teaching classes at my clinic. This video and others are my attempt to make my educational topics available to my patients. I have placed them on CZcams so others can benefit. Please like and subscribe to get more videos on recovery: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Alanon, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Trauma Recovery, Mindfulness, good Mental Health and Self Care. Please feel free to share so that others can benefit!
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Thank you, please continue these videos. I’m glad you said that about not necessarily jumping to a sponsor. That’s the last thing I want! I want and need to take things at my pace. I read a few pages of the Red Book every day because I have so little time to read. I go to an in person Al Anon once a week, but ACA is my real “church”. I don’t feel the need to vent to friends who didn’t grow up the way I did because I now have my own group who DOES understand why my mother being in hospice is not very upsetting to me. I finally have hope.
Hope is the flame that will light your pathway to serenity!
just found you Ken, many thanks
Wonderful! Thanks so much!
Thanks Ken, this is very helpful as are all of your recovery videos. I'm coming back to ACA after being away for a few years and hitting a bad emotional bottom. I have been to 5 meetings and have some hope again. Thank you for your offerings. They help a lot!
Thank you! I am grateful for you and your comment! I hope you find peace, self-acceptance and understanding on your road to serenity. 🎈
Thank you. This is just what I wanted. Thanks for making the process of getting on board simple and exciting.
You are so welcome!
This was SO helpful! I definitely got overwhelmed with all the stuff in ACA and dropped it all as fast as I accumulated it. I feel so much better about going back in the small bites you outlined. I wish you were licensed in my state because I really dig your style and feel like talking with you would be very easy. I'm very reluctant about seeing out a therapist because the whole process of finding someone who fits seems so daunting. Wish they ALL had CZcams channels. lol
Find Zoom meetings, they are incredible!
Keep it simple!
Most therapists offer a free 15 minute virtual interview to see if there is a match. Hopefully you can find the guidance you seek.
Thank you for this video, it was immensely helpful
My pleasure. I'm glad to be of service.
Thank you so much for your videos Ken! Just discovered ACA after over a decade of all the therapies, rehab and 2 years in Emotions Anonymous. Finally I feel like I’m not alone and I’ve found what I need 🙏🙏🌻
So glad you found ACA! Welcome to the next phase of your recovery! 🎈
Thank you for this! 3 meetings down for me.
Very cool! I hope you start to see the world through a different lens 😊🙏
This was so helpful. I’ve come from another fellowship and I’m panicking because I have a sponsee and I don’t want to let her down if I am to start ACA- I wouldn’t feel I was doing her the best service as a sponsor if I was more comfortable in ACA than NA. Now writing this I’m wondering how healthy my thoughts are here but wanted to get them out my head!
Thanks for expressing this! Sponsors are to guide us, not hold us back. We also do not need to take care of our sponsors. Their role is to support us.
Growth comes when we open communication and start discussing our needs! 🎈🎈🎈
Best wishes in your journey!
Camp where? I watched the whole thing. I see a single house and one picnic table behind you and absolutely nothing else. I don't think I've been anywhere in years that there are no other people. Wow. So are we giving up on one on one sponsorship in favor of group blind leading the blind gatherings? Doesn't sound prudent to me. I don't know what I don't know you know.