Thank you for being part of our growth this first year.
Here’s how we’ve loved our meeting, ourselves, and each other.
- A New Set of Meditation SlidesFollowing the motion that was passed on December 21st (Motion 24-13), these slides have been submitted for consideration as our new choices of meditation images. Included are the current slides which our members may want to retain. We will be looking for the 4 most popular images. Given that we are choosing from a large… Read more: A New Set of Meditation Slides
- Learning to hug myself
by Karola (Germany) I want to learn how I could possibly hug and reparent myself.I am grateful for the acamorning meeting, it helps me understanding and accepting myself better.Thank you for inspiration, feelings, thoughts, your sharing and the presence of all of you! - INNER CHILD
by Greg C. Some years ago, my therapist asked me to write a letter to the little boy that still resided inside of me. I chose to write this poem instead Open this poem - My Journey with Youby Karen B. This poem depicts my journey with you all in ACA. My heart is full of gratitude for this morning meeting!!💕 What Silence Said Trust what you can’t see. Move forward despite the wobbly groundlessness of I don’t know. Breathe, love, create, show up as you are, everyday-no matter what. Go to where… Read more: My Journey with You
- Happy
by Patty P. By Brian Andreas, artist, sculptor & storyteller - For You
by Candi L. Thank you for holding me with presence and conditionless love every 7:30 morning as I journey to ‘a new freedom… a freedom I never new existed.’ Double love, Candi - Gratitudeby Mary S. If you find your way out of the dark”, said bear; “remember to return with the light so that others might find their way out too.” T. Shannon Thank you all for shining the light for me. My first ACA meeting was this SMR group chaired by Annie. I live in Ireland… Read more: Gratitude
- Live from SMR!! It’s Sunday Funday!!!
by Christy K. I kept coming back and look what happened; me feeling loved enough to sing SOLO for the first time EVER!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ - LETTER OF INTENT
by Pam N. This is a sort of personal mission statement I wrote some 15 years ago at a ‘breakthrough’ program. At the time I wrote it….the vision seemed unattainable.I do believe the vision is in view. Thank you SMR. Thank you Global Family.What a blessing this Sacred Space has been.Sunday Funday….WHAT?! ….What happens in… Read more: LETTER OF INTENT - The Greatest Giftby Denise O. I have been present at the SMR meetings four times a week since August 2020. I had only been to a few face to face meetings in London before lockdown and hadn’t made the switch to London ACA on zoom for some reason. By some miracle I came across SMR.Initially I shared that… Read more: The Greatest Gift
- My Story of Hopeby Karen O. I only joined ACA in October of 2020 but I have been so changed already. I have spent the last 10+ years in another 12-step program that saved my life; after 10 years however, something was missing. My therapist suggested I check out the Laundry List. I Googled it and bawled reading… Read more: My Story of Hope
- Smoothies and Formats
by Wendy F. During Funday Sunday I made my daily smoothies using fresh greens that had been placed in water vases like cut flowers. I learned that my daily routines are fun and bring joy and peace into my life! I had that ah ha moment that writing formats also brings me happiness…it’s another way… Read more: Smoothies and Formats - The Matter of Lives
by Joanne M. An effigy to the lives and dreams lost over the year. The mourning brings resilience and resurgence of life. - Sweater
by Leslie L. I started knitting again because of the winter Sunday Funday, and I felt emboldened to try making a sweater for the first time, since giving up 25 years ago. I learned from a fellow traveler—knitting can be a meditation, an opportunity to practice stoicism. It doesn’t need to be perfect. Thanks to… Read more: Sweater - Thanksby Ken J. Such a gift to heal in a safe community of support and love. Clearly so many have done so much to allow this to manifest.
- Thank youby David S. Thank you for being a home. I learned how to reparent myself, to discover my true self, and to share this with others bravely. Changing timezone by nine hours did not stop me from continuing to come back.
- Reflections on ACA recoveryby Rene A. The wonder of it all. In the beginning I felt regret and anger; regret for hurting others and anger for the childhood that wounded me and stole away my innocence. Sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly these old ways of responding began to shift and fall away like an iceberg breaking into pieces that… Read more: Reflections on ACA recovery
- ACA Morning Family Picnic
by Chloe D. Mixed media collage on watercolor paper. - A Friend Will Get You Throughby Wendy (Montreal) Okay, this was written because of a Superbowl bet, but it says a lot about how I feel about my friends in this meeting. Many of you have walked through fire with me already. I’m deeply grateful. A FRIEND WILL GET YOU THROUGH Life, my friend, is difficult Some days will make… Read more: A Friend Will Get You Through
- L-O-V-E
by Indira (Germany) - The Angry Teenager
by Margot L. Every morning, during the SMR meeting I respond to the reading and shares by writing and drawing using my non dominant and dominant hands. The topic of today’s meditation was Cross Talk. I felt like an invisible child and adolescent in my home yet I knew that my parents and siblings talked about me. The… Read more: The Angry Teenager - Unlearning
by Kate W. - Live
by Kerri L. Learn to dance <3 - Adulting 101
by Kate W. I came to ACA Morning after working the steps in a group. I didn’t know how to have a relationship with my inner child(ren) or how to be my own loving parent. I learned those things here. - My “Goodie/Happy/Joy” Jar
by Heila J. “music heard so deeply / that it is not heard at all, but you are the music.” T.S. Eliot I liked the opportunity to both make & have an honored, loving (and fun!) container for my feelings – all of which are valid (trying to still grow in that area).. On January… Read more: My “Goodie/Happy/Joy” Jar - Putting Pieces Together
by Anita J. My inner child wanted to puzzle and discovered she was good at it 🙂 - mail box
by Anita J. Creative Fun on Sunday, A new mail box and letter bag for my building - Teacher/Student GrasshopperBy Robert F. I am one of our meeting zoom trainers. A participant and mine, greatest success, was learning how to share a computer screen in zoom. In the initial training, they could not share their screen. I followed-up with an individual training—they still could not share the screen. Two months later I saw this… Read more: Teacher/Student Grasshopper
- Vision Board with Inner Child
by Carmen M. I’ve done many vision boards in the past, but this was the first one where I invited my inner children to the process. It was inspired by all the beautiful and generous sharing by those in Sunday Fundays: collage, 3D texture elements, string mapping, blackout/redacted poetry. Sunday Fundays and my inner children… Read more: Vision Board with Inner Child - The Gameby Victoria The Game my name was shame I learned to blame and shame in the addiction game I can be renamed when I self-invoice I find my voice and now I rejoice because I have a choice not to play the game
- Illuminating Fellowship
by Jim R. Oct. 3, 2020. Carving out time to play with my friends… not so scary! - Offering #1
by Jim R. - Bridge of Pain
by Margot L. During our daily meetings I encourage my Little Inner Child to express herself. She prints and draws using my non-domninant hand. Some of her drawings I embroider onto a piece of cloth. My Little One cannot use a needle and thread so she participated in this embroidery by painting the sky! This… Read more: Bridge of Pain