by 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…

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…

by Joanne M.   An effigy to the lives and dreams lost over the year. The mourning brings resilience and resurgence of life.

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…

by 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.

by 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.

by 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…

by Chloe D.   Mixed media collage on watercolor paper.

by 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…

by Indira (Germany)  

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…

by Kate W.  

by Kerri L.   Learn to dance <3

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.

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…

by Anita J.   My inner child wanted to puzzle and discovered she was good at it 🙂

by Anita J.   Creative Fun on Sunday, A new mail box and letter bag for my building

By 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…

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…

by 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