2019 Second Quarter ComLINE

ACA Speaker Meeting Flyer

It’s Our 31st Anniversary!

When: Monday, April 22, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Where: St. Lawrence Episcopal Church, 125 W. Church St, Libertyville
Speaker: Rick Atwater, MS, LCPC

This is an open meeting, which means everyone is welcome. If you are a member of a 12 Step group, have a family member or friend in a 12 Step program, or is somebody who heard about ACoA and wants to check it out, this is the event for you.

First, Rick Atwater, MS, LCPC, will speak about the 12 Steps and ACA recovery. Rick is very knowledgeable about ACA issues because he has been assisting people with their emotional and spiritual growth since 1972 in various settings from hospitals and agencies to private practice.

Additionally, Rick lectures nationwide, has been published nationally and founded the Heroin Awareness Foundation.

Rick’s approach is direct and current behavior oriented. He supports the use of the twelve step programs where appropriate. Rick will also answer questions.

Second, we’ll have a party with refreshments to celebrate our group being together and helping support each other in recovery for 31 years.

Please join us!

Yours in program, Don M.

P.S. This is a terrific opportunity to catch up with old friends.

Libertyville Monday Night Adult Children of Alcoholics and other dysfunctional families

St. Lawrence Church, 125 W. Church St., Libertyville, IL
Meets every Monday at 7 p.m.
(Park behind church and enter through double doors, proceed to basement)

Visit our website: http://www.acoa-libertyville.org/
Email: libertyville.acoa@gmail.com

Please Post / Forward this flyer to whomever will benefit. Thanks! 

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Norman

The ACA WSO has published a special edition of the ComLINE Newsletter “Addressing Predatory Behavior” which should prove to be an important resource for all of our groups as we work to create a safe place for our fellow travelers to work on our recovery together. In this special edition read about:

• Why We Need to Talk About Predatory Behavior
• We Don’t Know What Safety Feels Like
• Many of Us Experienced Sexual Abuse in Childhood
• What Happens at Meetings
• But Wait – It’s Not Just Sexual
• Gentleness Break
• How The Meeting Can Help – And Does It?
• Outlook

You can get a complete copy of this special edition directly from the Adult Children Web site by clicking the following link: Addressing Predatory Behavior

If you are interested in past editions of the ComLINE Newsletter you will find an archive of ComLINE editions on the Adult Children Website.

The InRecovery ACA Intergroup is presenting another opportunity for fellowship in an atmosphere of mutual respect on Saturday, March 16th at 1pm at the Fairbanks Recovery Center, 8102 Clearvista Pkwy Room #158, Indianapolis, IN 46256.  (See flyer here) An excerpt from “The Journey” by Claudia B:

• It is safe to take time to play today. Play fuels your creativity, tickles your Inner Child, and nurtures your soul.
• As ACA becomes a safe place for you, you will find freedom to express all the hurts and fears you have kept inside and to free yourself from the shame and blame that are carryovers from the past.