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  • ACA 101
    • What is ACA?
    • What is an Adult Child?
    • ACA History
    • Am I an Adult Child?
    • The Laundry List
    • The Problem
    • The Solution
  • MEETINGS
    • Meetings List
    • New Meetings List
    • Printable Meetings List
    • Telephone Meetings
    • Why Go To A Meeting?
    • Starting A New Meeting
    • Guideline For New Meeting
  • FRIDAY SPEAKER ARCHIVES
  • EVENTS
    • Events Calendar
    • ACA World Events
    • 1st ACA Women's Retreat
  • Documentations
    • Child Characteristics
    • Free Topic Readings
    • Free Big Red Book!
    • Free ACA Newsletter
    • Literature For Sale
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Why Go To A Meeting?

 

It Can:

 

  • Keep you from slipping back into denial of your problems.

 

  • Give you a sense of normalcy. 

 

  • Help you practice NOT fixing. 

 

  • Be an opportunity to make new friends. 

 

  • Give you perspective and keep you from self-pity. 

 

  • Give you a chance to share things which, if told (to a non-member), would not be understood. 

 

  • Validate your emotions and experience. 

 

  • Give you a genuine sense of support, perhaps for the first time in your life. 

 

  • Give you a real sense of belonging. Here you are not different. 

 

  • Provide an opportunity to be of real service to others. 

 

  • Give you an outline for a workable philosophy in life in the 12 steps. 

 

  • Supply an environment where you can find out who you are and give you an opportunity to practice being that person. 

 

  • Provide a source of unconditional love and acceptance. 

 

  • Allow you the freedom to express your true feelings in a non-judgmental atmosphere, with out fear of criticism. 

 

  • Teach you to break behavior patterns that don’t work by replacing them with new ones. 

 

  • Allow you to experience real honesty of feeling in yourself and in others. 

 

  • Give you practice in making a commitment and keeping it. 

 

  • Change your image of yourself and raise your self-esteem. 

 

  • End your feelings of isolation. 

 

  • Help you detach from painful situations by showing your new attitudes. 

 

  • Change your life.

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