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REFLECTIONS ON CROSSTALK
FILLING THE HOLE
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RACIAL TRAUMA SPECIAL EDITION
A special edition of the ACA ComLine Blog begins on May 1, 2024, on the single topic of adult child experiences of racial trauma and recovery from those experiences. The thirteen shares submitted by ACA members can be found by clicking on “racial trauma” under the “Tags” heading in the right sidebar. Thank you to the ACA Racial Trauma Service Group for organizing this special edition, and to the authors for their shares.
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Successfully setting and enforcing boundaries
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Experiences in using ACA recovery tools.
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International membership issues and experiences
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Sharing experience, strength, and hope in ACA recovery
Acknowledging Racial Trauma
by Alaska Y. | May 6, 2024
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REFLECTIONS ON CROSSTALK
by Ifechukwu O. | May 1, 2024
For me, this sacred element has been the single most important tenet of this program. Crosstalk absolutely hinders my recovery no matter how benign. I had my feelings, thoughts co-opted in childhood and in my closest relationships as an adult, in the name of...
LUSH LIFE
by Tom P. | May 1, 2024
In college, I majored in Voice, but my studies took a backseat to a steady diet of cocktails and cigarettes. The school’s music program had a distinguished opera faculty that took the train from Manhattan to Poughkeepsie each week to give us lessons. I didn't care...
FILLING THE HOLE
by Oroki R. | May 1, 2024
It was 2004. I was incarcerated in Wisconsin’s Dane County Jail. I had forged checks on the account of my seventy-year-old friend, Miss Milele Chikasa Anana, one of the most prominent, renowned, highly respected members of the African American community, Madison,...
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