adultchildren.org — Sharing equally with others in the society of ACOA means never to be alone anymore. No bosses. No rules, No dues or fees, yet self-supporting. Just sharing, one day at a time with others healing in unconditional love. Awaken to living and being as you have never known it, nor could possibly imagine it. Find a group near you, join and get active.
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alwaysawakeMay 12, 2008Submitter
Alcoholism is a family dis-ease, affecting not just the problem drinker, but everyone around them. Real healing from the tragic mental and spiritual devastation of this illness is available for those willing to share equally in the society of ACOA. Many have found that facing this problem alone has been impossible. Only in daily sharing unconditional love has healing been possible.
cryptocracyMay 12, 2008
attraction not promotion, remember?try <a class="user" href="http://www.smartrecovery.org">http://www.smartrecovery.org</a> for practical tools for everyone. Just because your parent drinks/drank doesn't mean YOU need another bastardized 12 step program.
cryptocracyMay 12, 2008
Twelve-Step Snake Oil...Because the Twelve Steps are not a program for quitting drinking, it is easy to change them into something else that is not a program for getting off of drugs, or not a program for avoiding over-eating, or not a program for fixing whatever else you don't like. Just edit Step One, and change the words "powerless over alcohol" to "powerless over our addiction", or "powerless over our food compulsion", or whatever else you want to be powerless over, and then edit Step Twelve, and change the word "alcoholics" to "addicts", or "overeaters", or whatever, and Hey Presto! you have a new "spiritual" program for unsuccessfully treating some other problem or "spiritual disease." I hear that there are now over two hundred of these clone twelve-step programs, intended to cure (or not cure, but "treat") just about everything imaginable. Some of them sound pretty wild, like Artists in Recovery, or Partners of Sexaholics. <a class="user" href="http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-snake_oil.html">http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-snake_oil.html</a>