Hello there Kendra, and pleased to "meet" you
Originally Posted by
KendraOH 
... Is the ACA big book and step book new?? If not, I wonder why some ACA meetings don't have it... or use it???
Yes it is, just came out last year after a _long_ time geting written. Seems like all us dysfunctional people couldn't quite agree on what we wanted to say in a book
* lol *
There is a _lot_ of wonderful literature out there that is helpful to us "Adult Kids", and most of it good. There is very little available from the ACA central office mainly because there is so much support available elsewhere that there hasn't been much demand. The result is that every ACA meeting tends to develop it's own "style" and it's own "Format".
Al-anon is _much_ more organized. Some people say that it's because al-anoners are control freaks to begin with, and us adult kids want nothing more to do with being controlled.
AA meetings get together and the secretary will pick somebody out of the crowd to lead the meeting and choose a topic.
Al-anon meetings pass around a calendar and they know _months_ ahead who is going to be leading and what the topic is going to be.
ACA meetings just kind of happen. We all get together and chat and maybe we'll follow the format. Or not.
The wonderful things is that whatever the flavor, we're all getting well
Mike