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!

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

by 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…

by Patty P.   By Brian Andreas, artist, sculptor & storyteller

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

by 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…

by Christy K.   I kept coming back and look what happened; me feeling loved enough to sing SOLO for the first time EVER!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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…

by 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…

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)