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  • Position Description Meeting December 16, 2021

    https://staging.acamorning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-1216-position-description-meeting.docx

  • Sign up Here for Service

    Welcome! Our meeting needs your service and we invite you to join our Service Team. What’s more, when you are ready to participate, know that the service you provide not only benefits your meeting companions – providing service to the group benefits your own personal recovery. A simple form has been created to help you…

  • The SMR Service Schedule

    The schedule lists the different service positions needed to allow our members to have a meeting each day. In the form of a spreadsheet, it indicates the various Chairs, Hosts and others, sorted by day. The schedules are organized and updated weekly. This is the link to the Service Team Schedule.

  • SMR Business Meeting October 2021

    https://staging.acamorning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SMR-GC-21-10-18-Oct-Minutes.pdf

  • Position Description Meeting September 1, 2021

    https://staging.acamorning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-0901-position-description-meeting.docx

  • SMR Business Meeting September 2021

    https://staging.acamorning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SMR-GC-21-09-20-Sep-Minutes.pdf

  • ACA Tuesday Zoombox Podcast

    Stories of recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Recorded at the online ACA Tuesday Zoombox meeting and based on the ACA Tuesday Toolbox meeting in Brooklyn, NY. Listen on AnchorFM

  • What Happened to You?

    What Happened to You?

    What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and HealingBruce D Perry and Ophrah Winfrey I found this very helpful. Kate W.

  • Script Revision, Step by Step

    The Recommended SMR Meeting Script One Last Thought… A few loose ends were tied up in a final script review on Sunday, Nov. 7th. Most of the changes were simply about improving the wording of parts of the script to better communicate the group’s sentiment. There was an improvement to the announcement concerning Service. We…

  • The 12 Concepts of ACA

    Concept IThe final responsibility and the ultimate authority for ACA World Services should always reside in the collective conscience of our whole fellowship. Concept IIAuthority for the active maintenance of our world services is hereby delegated to the actual voice, the effective conscience for our whole fellowship. Concept IIIAs a means of creating and maintaining…

  • Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma

    Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma

    A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists by Janina Fisher, PhD. I had heard Janina Fisher’s name around trauma therapy circles – so when I heard an interview with her on this Healing Trauma podcast and the way she spoke, I resonated with her deeply compassionate approach to accepting and embracing deeply wounded parts. She mentioned…

  • A Review of the Meeting Script

    The Revision Continues… During the last 4 months, members of Strengthening My Recovery worked out suggested changes to the current script. To explore the details of the process, turn to this page on the website. At the October Group Conscience business meeting it was decided that the revision process would continue by formally addressing the…

  • Trauma And The Struggle To Open Up

    Trauma And The Struggle To Open Up

    Trauma And The Struggle To Open Up by Robert T. Muller If you’ve ever had the thought ‘why can’t I just get over it??’ this book may help you to validate the very real struggle. It gave me words where I had none. And validated my need to take it as slowly as necessary. Robert…

  • The Needs Wheel

    Based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg, Ph. D., and Manfred Max-Neef, Ph. D. Download a copy of this image.

  • The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory

    The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory

    When The Polyvagal Theory was published in 2011, it took the therapeutic world by storm, bringing Stephen Porges’s insights about the autonomic nervous system to a clinical audience interested in understanding trauma, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. The book made accessible to clinicians and other professionals a polyvagal perspective that provided new concepts…

  • Survey Results

    The following files are the results of our Meeting Environment Survey. Results Q1-9  These are the results of questions 1-9, in bar chart graphical format. Results Q10  These are the results of question 10, classified by comment type, and ordered alphabetically by topic. Survey Export – Excel file   This is all of the raw data…

  • SMR Business Meeting May 2021

    https://staging.acamorning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/minutes-of-the-end-of-the-May-2021SMR-ACA-Morning-GC-meeting-.docx

  • The Betrayal Bond

    Patrick J. Carnes, PhD Excellent book on trauma bonding and why we struggle with codependence.

  • Motion Logs

    Here are the motions currently on the docket for consideration at our monthly business meeting. We are changing the process by which they are considered. Our current thinking is to make sure there is a second to each motion, then decide whether it needs deliberation by the business meeting or can be addressed with a…

  • Survey Committee May 7, 2021

    https://staging.acamorning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/050721-GC-Meeting-Survey-Committee-Feedback-Minutes-DRAFT.docx