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It's amazing how we can be unaware that we're harming ourselves. We choose the wrong people, places and things to make u...
10/16/2026

It's amazing how we can be unaware that we're harming ourselves. We choose the wrong people, places and things to make us happy for the wrong reasons. Sometimes we know we're allowing people to use us so we can use them. We use people as Band-Aids to cover our unhealed wounds until we notice we still hurt and the Band-Aids can't help us. Our sponsors suggest that we work on loving ourselves. But how?

We read ACA literature, give ourselves affirmations and journal. We look at our past, deal with our hurts, forgive ourselves and others. We do the work. And one day we notice that it's happening. We've started to love ourselves and even like ourselves. We stop using Band-Aids and now have authentic friends who love us as we are, while we continue the journey of recovery. The greatest gift is that we learn to be a friend to ourselves.

On this day I will do the work. The journey to self-love is not an easy one, but the payoff is priceless.

Copyright © 2013 by Adult Children of Alcoholics® & Dysfunctional Families

10/16/2026

Welcome to thINK it INK it Thursday!🤓

Because sometimes you don’t need to overthink it—you need to INK it.

Each Thursday, we’re taking what’s spinning around in our heads and putting it on paper. A thought. A feeling. A truth. A little growth.

If You thINK It, INK It.™

What are you thINKing about today? 💭✍️

this Journal has over 41 prompts for you to dive into ..
really thINK about where you’ve been; where you’re at; and where you want to go💚
Link 👉🏻👉🏻 https://a.co/d/00ctbDkr

10/15/2026

Kick 🥾 Fear OUT!
YES, Change is uncomfortable.
Do not ALLOW the FEAR
of being uncomfortable
or FEAR Of FEELING😑 keep you sick🤮

Recovery will HELP
LET GO 🎈🎈 of abusing YOUR beautiful self. 🌈

Fear somehow touched about every aspect of our lives. It was an evil and corroding thread; the fabric of our existence was shot through with it. It set in motion trains of circumstances which brought us misfortune we felt we didn’t deserve.

The problem of resolving fear has two aspects.
We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain.
Then we shall need to find both the courage and the grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain.

No good work comes from unrest.Unrest, fear, anger, or sadness may motivate us. These feelings are sometimes intended to...
10/15/2026

No good work comes from unrest.

Unrest, fear, anger, or sadness may motivate us. These feelings are sometimes intended to compel action. But our best work emerges after these feelings have been replaced by peace.

We will not accomplish our task any sooner, or any better, by performing it out of a sense of urgency, fear, anger, or sadness.

Let go of unrest. Let peace fill the void. We do not have to forfeit our power, our God given personal power – or our peace – to do the work as we are called upon to do today. We will be given all the power we need to do what we are meant to do, when it is time.

-Language of Letting Go🎈🎈

Sometimes we get stuck in our own way of seeing things. We may feel as if everything that happens, happens to us or for ...
10/13/2026

Sometimes we get stuck in our own way of seeing things. We may feel as if everything that happens, happens to us or for us. If it rains, we may think about our ruined picnic and not about the dry fields that need the rain. We need to focus on the big picture. This keeps us from becoming self-centered. If it rains, we’ll gather indoors and be glad for the farmers. When we do our part, things go well. When we don’t we feel it. Every else feels it too. Self pity keeps us from doing our part.

Prayer for the Day: Higher Power, help me see myself as a big part of the picture. My job is just is to do my part.

Action for the Day: Today, I’ll think about how I fit in with my Higher Power, my family, the place I work, my community. Do I do my part?

10/12/2026

Mom’s Monday Notes📝

“We expect to see difficulties removed before we pass through them.”
— Mom’s note, November 19, 1998

How often do we ask God to clear the path before we take the first step? We want the fear settled, the conversation made easier, and the outcome assured.

Mom’s words remind me that sometimes we have to walk through the difficulty while we are still uncomfortable. We can pray for relief and also trust God to meet us where we are.

In recovery, that may mean telling the truth when our voice shakes, setting a boundary while we feel guilty, or asking for help when we would rather appear strong. Courage can be as quiet as saying, “I’m afraid, but I’m willing to take the next step.”

And we do not have to take that step alone. God’s care can reach us through a trusted friend, a sponsor, a counselor, or someone willing to sit beside us without trying to fix everything. Receiving support is an act of faith, too.

Discomfort does not always mean we are doing something wrong. Sometimes it accompanies the unfamiliar work of healing. We can slow down, seek wise guidance, and let trust grow one step at a time.

Today, perhaps our prayer can be: “Lord, help me walk through what is mine to face. Give me discernment, courage, and the willingness to accept support.”

A thought to carry: I do not need to see the whole path to take the next faithful step.

Prayer:
God, You know what I wish would disappear and what I am afraid to face. Meet me in this uncertainty. Help me recognize when to move forward, when to rest, and when to reach for help. Surround me with people who offer wisdom and care. Teach me to trust Your presence as I walk through. Amen♥️

God grant us the courage to change what we can–ourselves. How difficult it is to let go of our struggles to control and ...
10/12/2026

God grant us the courage to change what we can–ourselves. How difficult it is to let go of our struggles to control and change someone else. How frequently we assume that everything would be fine if only someone else would change. All that needs to change is an attitude, our own.

Taking responsibility for improving one’s own life is an important step toward emotional health. Blaming another for our circumstances keeps us stuck and offers no hope for improved conditions. Personal power is as available as our decision to use it. And it is bolstered by all the strength we’ll ever need. The decision to take our lives in hand will exhilarate us. The decision each day to be thoughtful, prayerful, and wholly responsible for all that we do will nourish our developing selves. Each responsible choice moves us toward our wholeness, strengthening our sense of self, our well-being.

I will change only who I can today: myself.

10/11/2026

We are HERE with YOU to 🌻Grow Thru What You Went Through…

🌻Life doesn’t just happen to us—it happens for us. Every challenge, heartbreak, and setback carries a lesson, shaping us into who we’re meant to become.

Growth isn’t about avoiding pain; it’s about leaning into it, learning from it, and allowing it to transform us. It’s about choosing resilience over resentment, purpose over pity, and faith over fear.

The storms we survive don’t define us—how we rise from them does. So whatever you’re facing today, trust that you are being refined, not ruined. Keep pushing forward. Keep growing.

Because one day, the struggle that once tried to break you will be the very thing that built you.

I’ve started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time i...
10/10/2026

I’ve started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the air, however many times you banged your head against the wall. . .
–The Courage to Change by Dennis Wholey

The people who are most successful at living and loving are those who can learn to wait successfully. Not many people enjoy waiting or learning patience. Yet, waiting can be a powerful tool that will help us accomplish much good.

We cannot always have what we want when we want it. For different reasons, what we want to do, have, be, or accomplish is not available to us now. But there are things we could not do or have today, no matter what, that we can have in the future. Today, we would make ourselves crazy trying to accomplish what will come naturally and with ease later.

We can trust that all is on schedule. Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out – in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

We don’t have to put our life on hold while we wait. We can direct our attention elsewhere; we can practice acceptance and gratitude in the interim; we can trust that we do have a life to live while we are waiting – then we go about living it.

Deal with your frustration and impatience, but learn how to wait. The old saying, “You can’t always get what you want” isn’t entirely true. Often, in life, we can get what we want – especially the desires of our heart – if we can learn to wait.

-Language of Letting Go🎈

Perfectionism is a response to a shame-based and controlling home. The child mistakenly believes that she can avoid bein...
10/09/2026

Perfectionism is a response to a shame-based and controlling home. The child mistakenly believes that she can avoid being shamed if she is perfect in her thinking and acting." BRB p. 36

As children, many of us were either subtly or overtly shamed on a regular basis. We lacked true acceptance from our parents and learned to internalize the shame. We got the message that we were not okay as we were. Some of us tried to act in ways that garnered the approval and love we so longed for.

Further, we secretly blamed ourselves for our parent's alcoholism or dysfunction, thinking that if only we could be perfect, things would get better and our pain would end. But that was a losing battle. So we learned to associate being imperfect with being unlovable.

With our Higher Power as our true parent, in ACA we learn the right message: that we are worthy of love in all of our imperfection. We could not have changed our parents' sickness by being perfect, even if perfection was possible.

This is generational; our parents passed down the dysfunction in which they were also raised. But we are choosing to hear a different message and putting an end to the cycle of shame.

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