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1ACOA, Codependency and My Inner Child 1 Citation ?Our society considers hard work, intense recreation, vigorous exercise, rushing through the day, excessive eating, frequent anger, occasional deep depression, and sex without love as ?normal?, and we have become addicted to the brain chemicals that accompany these so-called normal behavior. Paul Pearsall Addiction is not difficult to understand. Accepting we or a loved one is an addict is difficult. The only reason that people use a substance or a position (power) or food is to change their, technorati.com
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ACOA, Codependency and My Inner Child 1 Citation ?Our society considers hard work, intense recreation, vigorous exercise, rushing through the day, excessive eating, frequent anger, occasional deep depression, and sex without love as ?normal?, and we have become addicted to the brain chemicals that accompany these so-called normal behavior. Paul Pearsall Addiction is not difficult to understand. Accepting we or a loved one is an addict is difficult. The only reason that people use a substance or a position (power) or food is to change their, technorati.com
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1 Citation Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Adult Children of Alcoholics Janet Geringer Woititz ISBN 1-55874-112-7 Amazon link Janet Woititz wrote her dissertation for her doctorate in the middle 1970s about ?Self-Esteem in Children of Alcoholics?. She started the first 12-step program for those of any age who had grown up in a dysfunctional home. This group was called ACOA-Adult children of Alcoholics. The book about ACOA, Adult Children of Alcoh, technorati.com
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"I Free Myself from Old Predictions and Prophecies" 1 Citation "I look at my old programming today, examining the old predictions and the prophecies of doom and gloom, and I erase the tape that plays the self-defeating, shaming messages." -From "Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics" - on February 16. In contemplating today's reading, I came to better understand the nature of my own self-criticism. My parents didn't as much criticize me, or tell me I wouldn't amount to anything, as much as they were oblivious to the nature of my suffering fr, technorati.com
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"I take care of business today." 1 Citation From today's Daily Affirmations for Adult Children of Alcoholics: "Today I release all forms of clutter and confusion from my personal and professional affairs. At this moment, I declare that I function dynamically with a clear mind, receptive to fresh thoughts and new opportunities. I release myself from all 'holding patterns' of belief. I see a clear distinction between the way it was in my alcoholic home when I was growing up, and the way it is today. I live my life in the NOW, which is my, technorati.com
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1 Citation It's amazing to me how the simplest things could cause so much stress, frustration, and sadness...I just don't ever know how to handle this stuff... I feel like I can't trust my thoughts or my feelings...You probably won't take away much from the following, but I just had to get it out of my system (It's faster to type than to write). I figured, too, that maybe it might make you feel better knowing 'there's someone else out there' in case you've ever had a similar rush or state of confusion--reg, technorati.com
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1 Citation Click above to hear ?Funhouse??Funhouse? By PinkI dance around this empty house Tear us down Throw you out Screaming down the halls Spinning all around and now we fallPictures framing up the past Your taunting smirk behind the glass This museum full of ash Once a tickle Now a rashThis used to be a funhouse But now it?s full of evil clowns It?s time to start the countdown I?m gonna burn it down down down I?m gonna burn it down9, 8, 7, 6 5 4, 3, 2, 1, funEchoes knocking on locked doors All the lau, technorati.com
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Interesting horoscope for this week in light of my previous posts! 1 Citation Scorpio - italicized print are my observations, thoughts, etc. "You prefer taking care of your problems in private(i.e., not going to meetings....not calling sponsor.... :). Like the character Jake and Bill laughingly admire in The Sun Also Rises, you're like a cat that way(my roommate said I'm like an alleycat this past week....:) You go off and take care of yourself and when you're all better, you come back out into the world. If you're trying to work out an issue related to your home, fami, technorati.com
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1 Citation Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Adult Children of Alcoholics Janet Geringer Woititz ISBN 1-55874-112-7 Amazon link Janet Woititz wrote her dissertation for her doctorate in the middle 1970s about ?Self-Esteem in Children of Alcoholics?. She started the first 12-step program for those of any age who had grown up in a dysfunctional home. This group was called ACOA-Adult children of Alcoholics. The book about ACOA, Adult Children of Alcoh, technorati.com
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Just needed to have these somewhere... 1 Citation Thirteen characteristics of adult children of alcoholics Janet Geringer Woititz, widely acknowledged as the founder of the Adult Children of Alcoholics movement, lists 13 traits to look for. These individuals: 1. Can only guess what normal behavior is 2. Have difficulty following a project from beginning to end 3. Lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth 4. Judge themselves without mercy 5. Have difficulty having fun 6. Take themselves very seriously 7. Have difficult, technorati.com
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