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.

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

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

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,…

Please respond by Friday 10/23/20 for your feedback to be included in the first review You can help us decide whether a website is useful by reading the document put together by our current treasurer, and by making comments on both of the spreadsheets on this page. First, the Website Budget Estimate from Jim, our…

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…

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

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

This is the first meeting I’ve actually WANTED to do service for. I’ve done service in other groups, of course, but always from a sense that it was something I should do or something I needed to do. In this group, I feel my contribution is valued and I feel like who I am is…