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The following commands can be entered via DTMF tones using your phone's dial pad while in a Zoom meeting: Without ACA we remain in destructive or loveless relationships because we fear abandonment. The term “adult child” means that we respond to adult interactions with the fear and self-doubt learned as children. This undercurrent of hidden fear can sabotage our choices and relationships. We can appear outwardly confident while living with a constant question of our worth. Whatever our path, we found no lasting help until we found ACA.ACA is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition support group focused on understanding the specific behavior and attitude patterns we developed while growing up in an alcoholic or other dysfunctional environment. These patterns continue to affect us today.

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We consider 'camera on' and listening (which means 'video on' is an individual's choice) is a means of service. Prayer can be thought of as talking to god, for example, asking questions such as: ‘God, what is your will for me?’ Meditation can be thought of as listening for God’s guidance. I have the right to a spiritually, physically, and emotionally healthier existence, though it may deviate entirely or in part from my parents' way of life. I’m grateful for the day I realized I could scroll through the ACA Daily Meditations in the early morning, and continue scrolling to my heart’s content through the electronic version of the ACA Big Red Book, if I need more. I can take my scared inner child to the solution, rather than to stay steeped in the problem. My phone has become the place where technology and spirituality mix.

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The Loving Parent Guidebook which explores, in practical terms, how to build this healing resource into your life. We read it together and we do the exercises together in the meeting. The book provides guidance on creating the conditions to reclaim your inner child and reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect. You can apply everything you learn in this guidebook to parenting, interacting with children, and interacting with adults. When you become a friend to yourself, you’re naturally a friend to others.

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In this time of uncertainty, reparenting can help us be in the solution of becoming our own loving parent. This is an important step for us as we develop our own identity that is different than our dysfunctional family role. The roles are family hero, scapegoat, lost child, or some other role. With The Solution, we are on our own, but we are not alone as we were when we were children. We have our ACA group, the fellowship, and a Higher Power to rely upon. With help and support, we learn what it means to be a Loving Parent to ourselves.Meeting together to read and apply the new ACA Loving Parent Guidebook. This is an open study group. The ACA Traditions outline fellowship unity, group autonomy, and the ultimate authority of ACA - a loving God - as expressed in our group conscience. The Twelve Traditions guarantee simplicity in our primary purpose and in membership requirements for ACA. The Twelve Traditions … sustain ACA groups that allow the ACA solution of reparenting one's self to emerge and thrive. Group decisions that follow the Traditions and their intent have a signature that we learn to recognize … by adhering to the Traditions, we begin to see God’s footprint in our group decisions. We are asked to let go of our struggle to control, and to turn to God, as we understand God, for our direction. At this meeting we read ACA readings: Serenity Prayer, 12 traditions, Tony A steps and principles, Other or Laundry List alternating weeks.

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Chapter 7 Study: introduces ACA newcomers to the ACA Steps and is a renewal for the experienced member to the Steps, and their various adaptations, have brought sure hope and a better way of life to those who desire change. In ACA, the Twelve Steps also bring recovery to our members who were not raised with addiction in the home. Our experience shows that these ACA members internalized the same abandonment and shame as children brought up in alcoholism or other addictions.

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Loving Parent ➢ The Inner Child – True Self ➢ Tools and Techniques for Connecting with Our Inner Child ➢ Identify Our Critical Parent ➢ ACA Experience: Loving Parent and Inner Child ➢ What is a Loving Parent? ➢ What is an Inner Child? ➢ How Does the Inner Child Connect with a Higher Power? ➢ How Many Inner Children Do You Have? ➢ How Did You Meet Your Inner Child? ➢ What Happened When You Meet Your Inner Child? ➢ How Does Your Inner Child Sabotage You? ➢ How Do I Build Trust with my Inner Child? ➢ How Do I Help my Inner Child Build Self-Esteem? ➢ How I Validate My Inner Child ➢ How I Negotiate With My Inner Child ➢ How I Celebrate My Inner Child ➢ Integrating My Inner Child With My Adult Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families World Service Organization, Inc How do I know what God’s will is for me?’ … Most importantly, we realize that no other person can answer this question for us. It is ours to discover.