Tuesday Toolbox ACA

Stories of recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Recorded at the ACA Tuesday Toolbox meeting of ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Email us at TuesdayToolboxACA(at)Gmail.com.

Jennifer ACA

Jennifer ACA talks about recognizing the critical parent's voice, and how ACA recovery helped her to raise awareness and find healthy self parenting models for her recovery.

10-21
17:13

Michael ACA

Michael ACA talks about repeating patters of family dysfunction in relationships, how he found hope in ACA rooms, and accepting powerlessness (Step 1) to start healing.

10-14
16:22

Rusty ACA

Rusty ACA talks about gentle, loving self reparenting tools and how he continues to develop a trusting relationship with his internal family system.

10-07
17:01

Carissa ACA

Carissa talks about recovering in ACA, how she used the tools to reshape her career and romantic relationship.

09-30
16:21

Kai ACA

Kai talks about childhood neglect, inner-child work, loving parent workbook and self-parenting.

07-22
11:36

Claire ACA

Claire talks about self abandonment, physical pain and how it can serve to cover up emotional pain.

07-15
16:05

Emily ACA

Emily talks about the notion of Higher Power, how it is separate from organized religions, and 12-steps being a spiritual solution of one's own choosing in recovery from family dysfunction.

07-12
15:35

Franco ACA

Franco talks about acceptance, acting vs reacting, dysfunctional family dynamic and detaching with love as a solution.

07-10
15:52

Lisa ACA

Lisa talks about grief and shame. She offers ACA community, journaling, parenting check-in and other tools of recovery.

05-06
14:32

B ACA

B Aca talks about growing up in a para-alcoholic family, meditation, step study, self love and service as recovery tools.

04-28
14:41

John ACA

John talks about growing up in an alcoholic family, self-love, and service as an expression of love.

04-22
16:11

Heather ACA

Heather talks about growing up in a dysfunctional family, her healing process, how she re-parents herself, and self-care.

03-02
15:50

Allyson ACA

Allyson talks about steady recovery and forming a new kind of relationship with her family of origin.

03-02
15:20

Ann

Ann talks about slowing down as a recovery tool.

02-11
15:38

Sam ACA

Sam talks about play as a recovery tool from childhood trauma.

02-11
15:07

Lana ACA

Lana talks about growing in a dysfunctional family, effects of childhood neglect and her recovery journey.

01-10
16:28

Ben ACA

Ben talks about grief work and tools of self parenting, two-way praying and journaling.

01-10
13:14

Carlos

Carlos talks about perfectionism as an ACA trait, humor and connection as tools of recovery.

12-10
14:59

Keegan

Keegan talks about abandonment issues, its effect on romantic relationships and solution to heal from dysfunctional patterns.

12-09
16:09

Britney

Britney talks about growing up in an alcoholic family, re-parenting one's self, loving parent tools and bill of rights.

11-12
12:03

Bryana Patton

What happened to the end of this podcast?

05-19 Reply

Lina Besi

Hey, thank you all for sharings. It is valuable for me. I would suggest to write the topic of the speaker, not only the name. It would be more comfortable.

09-05 Reply

Christal Thompkins

I don't have any Aca or Coda meetings in my area and I have to search for other way's to get support, and listening to this validates some of my experience and put into words what I have been through. Thank You! for sharing.

07-01 Reply

Christal Thompkins

Thank you for sharing your story. :)

06-05 Reply

Christal Thompkins

Thank You for sharing, I had similar experiences growing up. Listening to this helps me put my experience in words and validates what I went through.

05-19 Reply

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