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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…
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The Betrayal Bond
Patrick J. Carnes, PhD Excellent book on trauma bonding and why we struggle with codependence.
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Safe (Brave) Space
From its inception, the Strengthening My Recovery meeting has been conscious of creating a space where members feel safe sharing their thoughts and feelings with each other. We realize what feels safe to one person may not feel safe to the next, so we listen and we shift as our awareness and understanding of the…
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Tony A 12-Step Group
Tuesdays beginning May 4th. 7:00 pm CEST, 1:00 pm EST Dear fellow traveller we are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: The ACoA Experience – 12 Step Study Group (the 12 steps drafted by Tony A.) Time: May 4, 2021 07:00 PM BrusselsEvery week on TuesdayStarting on May 4th, 2021 07:00 PM CEST Please download…
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Breakdown To Breakthroughs
Breakdown To Breakthroughs with Lisa A Romano I enjoy watching Lisa’s videos and listening to her podcasts because I appreciate her pithiness. She offers clear, concise guidance on such subjects as, overcoming codependency and negative self-talk. Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Submitted by nifer F.
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The Adult Chair
The Adult Child with Michelle Chalfant. I enjoy listening to this podcast to help rewrite my inner critic script to be positive. Here is a quote from the website that explains the The Adult Chair Model: “We are all made up of three distinct parts: the inner child, the adolescent and the adult. Each part…
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Pete Walker
http://www.pete-walker.com/ Pete Walker is a licensed psychotherapist, MFC 25210, with degrees in Social Work and Counseling Psychology. He is a “general practitioner” who has a private practice in Berkeley, California, in the serene Claremont Hotel neighborhood. He has been working as a counselor, lecturer, writer and group leader for thirty-five years, and as a supervisor and…
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Healing the Child Within
Recovering from childhood trauma and rediscovering your true self. By conservative estimates, over fifty percent of the population have experienced childhood trauma, often in toxic family systems. In some cultures that rises to seventy, eighty, even ninety percent. When trauma occurs in childhood, the core aspect of human consciousness – our true self – goes…
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The Lost Art of Listening
“That isn’t what I meant!”Truly listening and being heard is far from simple, even between people who care about each other.This perennial bestseller–now revised and updated for the digital age–has helped more than 150,000 readers resolve conflicts and transform their personal and professional relationships. It helped me understand I am not responsible for how my…
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An Invitation to Brave Space
Together we will create brave space.Because there is no such thing as a “safe space” —We exist in the real world.We all carry scars and we have all caused wounds.In this spaceWe seek to turn down the volume of the outside world,We amplify voices that fight to be heard elsewhere,We call each other to more truth…
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Internal Family Systems
An interesting psychotherapy model that follows the ACA paradigm with great success
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Vagus Nerve Yoga for Trauma Recovery
This is a great one-page explanation of the effect of trauma on the Vagus nerve and how that nerve continues to react to stimulus even when no real danger is present. An overview with added bonus of a short yoga practice to help us learn to reset our systems when we feel threatened. https://drarielleschwartz.com/vagus-nerve-yoga-for-trauma-recovery-dr-arielle-schwartz/#.YCE9S5NKgWo
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Into the Magic Shop
Into the Magic Shop by James R. Doty: A neurosurgeon’s quest to discover the mysteries of the brain and the secrets of the heart. How a child from an alcoholic family found his way from hopelessness to become a neurosurgeon. The lessons he learned from a lady in the Magic Shop who felt his angst…
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Conversations with a Blank Canvas
Conversations with a Blank Canvas: From Nowhere to Somewhere Decades of Change and Transformation by Isa L. Levy Instagram: isalevyaol.com2 Reading Conversations with a Blank Canvas changed my approach to creativity. It ended a twenty year block of not oil painting because of my need for perfectionism. Not only have I been painting for over six months,…
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How to Start a Step Study Group
Page under construction If you’ve started your own Step Study Group, please help us help others by telling us about your experience. Write to webmaster@acamorning.org and include any resources you’d like to see listed on this page. Thanks. From the World Service Organization https://adultchildren.org/resources/step-studies/ Sample Schedules
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The Solution: How To Become Your Own Loving Parent
The Solution from the Big Red Book (BRB p. 590) states, “The solution is to become your own loving parent.” Chapter eight is devoted entirely to this healing process (BRB pp 295-330). The Solution: https://adultchildren.org/literature/solution/ THE LOVING PARENT GUIDEBOOK (LPG) IS NOW AVAILABLE (HARDCOPY OR KINDLE): https://adultchildren.org/literature/lpg-availability/ The LPG Reparenting Check-in Workshop was presented in…
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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…
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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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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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