Thanks for these videos! There isn't much for us ACAs on KZfaq. Glad you're here.

Great video. Thank you. :)

Thank you for your a service. After 30+ years of therapy, ACA is where I belong. It’s only been 14 months, in meetings, working with a small group through Loving Parent Guidebook yet already feel so much more grounded and at peace. I really believe there should as many, or more, people in ACA, it truly is the groundwork’s for all issues - AA, NA, GA, OA, etc. and really for anyone who has unhealed wounds. Please keep doing what you are doing to spread the word of healing in ACA. ❤

Thank you for this and other videos. I am new to ACA. I’m about 4 months in. I attend and chair meetings have a sponsor and am doing step work. I feel I have no more time to lose. I am coming our of a bad depression and coming out of isolation. After trying other 12 step groups I feel like I am starting to get a grip on what’s been going on internally. Therapy up until this point hasn’t helped since my therapist did not know about ACA and were not trained in recovery issues at large. I do hope this work gets passed to more therapist so that those seeking help find it. I just let my last therapist go as a result of intolerance to not working the real solution. I was told to do a lot of things that I just was not ready or willing to do yet and if I could I would not have needed therapy. When I spoke up about this after a meeting I was shown where to turn in the BRB to find a therapist. That’s when I let the one I had go. I have been in therapy for years, a cult, and 12 step groups and finally I found ACA. I am grateful that I did at 67 years old, its not too late to heal and help others along the way. I am glad to be able to make some progress that feels right at this late stage of my development. I am hopeful that I can change and I want to with the help of community of people who are trying to be authentic like me, something I that I have longed for for a very long time. 😊

Yep, growing up I saw alcoholic home in my aunt's case where she was beaten up by her then husband, and I always believed that alcoholic home equals physical abuse. It is only in 2023 that I realized that social anxiety issues I struggle with, people pleasing and inability to shake of feeling responsible for other people's anger and mood swings stem from verbal abuse and emotional neglect from home, where there was alcoholism without violence. When we do not know what is wrong - we get symptomized and self pathologized, we continue with what is norm for us: self blame and guilt tripping in order to fix difficult people.

Wow. Thank you, these points are scarily accurate. To be living so unaware in their shadow is quite the burden, so thank you for promoting the solution!

Wow, Thank you for this series Ken. I've dipped my toes into ACA for 2 years but I get overwhelmed by the literature every time. I struggle with reading comprehension(thanks brain injury) and combine this with the dense material of ACA, it's really hard for me to understand the reading a lot of the time. Even with lots of therapy under my belt, the reading comprehension has made it hard for me to draw the parallels even though I meet much of the criteria. The text becomes like word soup! Not any more. Please keep it up, it's making the literature digestible and I can't thank you enough for your time to do this.

Great video!

The reversed laundry list looks OK to me, to be honest

I would like to interact somehow. I feel it is too late for me, being 66 and fitting traits of most points on the list. I have doomed myself somehow. What do I do now?

Hi Ken are you taking on new clients