What An ACA ACoA/DF Self-Help Group Can Do for You
Debating whether to go to a support meeting? This reading can help, whether you're just starting or need some encouragement when times gets rough.

It can:

• Keep you from slipping back into denial of your problems.
• Give you a sense of normalcy.
• Be an opportunity to make new friends.
• Give you perspective and keep you from self-pity.
• Give you a chance to share things which, if told (to a non-member), would not be understood.
• Validate your emotions and experience.
• Give you a genuine sense of support, perhaps for the first time in your life.
• Give you a real sense of belonging. Here you are not different.
• Provide an opportunity to be of real service to others.
• Give you an outline for a workable philosophy in life in the 12 steps.
• Supply an environment where you can find out who you are and give you an opportunity to practice being that person.
• Provide a source of unconditional love and acceptance.
• Allow you the freedom to express your true feelings in a non-judgmental atmosphere, with out fear of criticism.
• Teach you to break behaviour patterns that don’t work by replacing them with new ones.
• Allow you to experience real honesty of feeling in yourself and in others.
• Give you practice in making a commitment and keeping it.
• Change your image of yourself and raise your self-esteem.
• End your feelings of isolation.
• Help you detach from painful situations by showing your new attitudes.
• CHANGE YOUR LIFE.