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Empaths and Narcissists
YouTube videos from Abdul Saad, Clinical Psychologist, on how empathic people are often attracted to narcissists and quickly become co-dependent. This is one of a series of videos that may help you understand co-dependent behavior. Vital Mind Psychology
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Therapeutic Yoga
Dr. Arielle Schwartz works with the body to aid in the healing of trauma. This is a link to her online yoga videos, but check out her entire site for lots of information on the power of the body to help us move through the past.
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Tony A – New Steps for ACA
Tony A, the primary founder of ACA, felt that using the AA steps were not appropriate for Adult Children. He wrote new steps and offered them to ACA for use as an alternative to the AA steps. In this talk, he explains why he wrote these new steps. Transcript of the video.
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Father Juniper at AA Convention
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. This is an audio recording of Father Juniper recorded at an unknown AA convention. He talks about how he struggled in AA recovery even after repeated 4th step inventories and going through the steps many times. Sober for years he found himself suicidal. He recounts how he discovered ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics)…
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Tuesday Toolbox
Recorded at the ACA Tuesday Toolbox meeting of ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Recommended by many in our meeting. on Soundcloud on Apple podcasts
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The Body Keeps the Score
Recommended by many in our meeting, this book talks about the neurological and biological changes resulting from trauma and some of the ways we can heal. The Body Keeps the Score
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow
This book from author, Francis Weller, talks about grief work as sacred and communal. As you journey through the ACA process, you will encounter grief. Weller helps us understand the forms of grief and how we work through our grief to healing. Below is a link to the author’s website: Francis Weller
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The 12 Steps to Self-Parenting
From the author’s website. Self-Parenting is about freeing you inner child and releasing the voice of your Higher Parent, about accepting and nurturing yourself. The promise of self-parenting is that you will be able to live in the present and leave the past behind and learn to unconditionally love yourself. Based on the Twelve Steps…
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Nonviolent Communication
With Nonviolent Communication (NVC) we learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others. Through its emphasis on deep listening—to ourselves as well as others—NVC helps us discover the depth of our own compassion. This language reveals the awareness that all human beings are only trying to honor universal values and needs, every minute,…
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Recovery of Your Inner Child
The Inner Child lives within all of us, it’s the part of us that feels emotions and is playful, intuitive, and creative. Usually hidden under our grown-up personas, the Inner Child holds the key to intimacy in relationships, physical and emotional well-being, recovery from addictions, and the creativity and wisdom of our inner selves. Recovery…