Thread: Al-Anon vs ACA?
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Old 01-21-2007, 09:32 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Glass, you may want to read the 13 characteristics sticky at the top of this forum. If you read those and can honestly tell yourself that none of those traits still apply to you or still have impact on your life, then you may not need anything more.

If those traits make you say "WHOAH! That is me, right now, right here, today, still" then you may want to check out ACoA meets or literature or counselling.

The issue with being an ACoA is not the "C". What happened in childhood, happened in childhood. We can accept and forgive all we want. The issue with being an ACoA is being an ADULT, still functioning with old survival skills and still having internal issues which might once have been, but no longer are, beneficial. And then learning to how create new life skills which are more suited to our lives as ADULTS.

Hope that makes some sense.
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