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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…