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The Laundry Lists
This is WSO approved literature taken from www.adultchildren.org. Links below will take you to the WSO site. The Laundry List – 14 Traits of an Adult Child of an Alcoholic We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures. We became approval seekers and lost our identity in the process. We are frightened by…
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Tony A’s 12 Steps
Tony A’s 12 Steps of ACA Recovery ACA co-founder Tony A. adapted the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to help the Adult Child uncover the effects of having been raised in a dysfunctional family. 1. We admitted we were powerless over the effects of living with alcoholism and that our lives had become unmanageable. 2.…
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The 12 Steps
We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God. Made…
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The 12 Traditions
The Twelve Traditions are reprinted and adapted from the original Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous and are used with the permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
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On Anonymity
“If someone chooses to use his/her first and last name or hand out an address or phone number that is that person’s choice.” BRB p. 607 “For some ACA members, anonymity is merely stating their first name at ACA meetings to protect their identity… Anonymity also means that we do not talk about someone else’s…
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ACA World Service Approved
The materials posted here are the Board approved or Conference approved resources created for the Adult Children of Alcoholics /Dysfunctional Families global fellowship. Much of this material was generated by the fellowship by way of the Literature Committee of WSO. Also listed are resources presented or produced at the ACA World Conventions. Websites The WSO…
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Is ACA For Me?
This literature from the World Service Organization might help you to determine if the Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families (ACA) program would be beneficial for you. You’re also welcome to stay after our meeting any day to ask questions of our Newcomer-Greeters. You’ll get lots of information and assistance from our members at…
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The Feelings Wheel
This graphic comes from the work of Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., and Nonviolent Communications. We include it here as many people in ACA are learning to differentiate and name their feelings, some us for the first time.
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Fellow Traveler/Sponsors
From BRB Chapter 11 ACA Sponsorship: Fellow Travelers p. 374 Fellow Traveler – This is the traditional method of ACA sponsorship. A person who is willing to share experience, strength, and hope in helping the sponsee work his or her way through the Twelve Steps and to pick up the recovery tools for facing life on life’s terms. …
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Comfort Rules
In the Main Room “To create safety and mutual respect in the meeting: We ask that there be no “crosstalk” which means interrupting, referring to, commenting on, or using the content of what another person has said. What you hear at this meeting should remain at the meeting. We do not talk about another person’s…
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Crosstalk
ACA’s No Crosstalk Guidelines Somewhere along the line, we learned to doubt our perceptions, discount our feelings, and overlook our needs. Telling people what we thought or felt often resulted in our being ignored, laughed at or punished. We learned to look to others to tell us what to think, what to feel and how…