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ACA Promise 6: Stable, Peaceful, & Financially Secure

ACA Promise 6: We will enjoy feeling stable, peaceful, and financially secure. (Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families) At...

Are you ready for the STEPS?

It is the beginning of a new year, people are motivated to work on themselves, make the changes they believe they are ready to make, and...

Step 12 & The Gift of Recovery

"Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other codependents, and to practice...

Working Step 11 by: Marie B.

A blog about Step 11 in CoDA, the twelve step program for recovery from codependent relationships.

"Service Work" by: A. H.

I’ve been experiencing jealously lately, because I’ve seen examples of my workplace recognizing males in high visibility ways. My...

"My Relationship with Recovery" by: Kimberly Sprintz

I spend a great deal of time learning about healthy relationships, the core components that make a relationship healthy vs. the all too...

Working Step Ten by: Marie B.

The topic of our CoDA meeting tonight is Step 10. This does NOT mean you need to be on your step 10 or even working steps at all. We all...

"Keep Coming Back" by: A.H.

We keep coming back because ACA is a way of life that fulfills us emotionally and spiritually.” (BRB, Page 334). OCTOBER 1 - On this day...

Tour Our Website for CoDA Women Empowering Women

I have recorded this video walkthrough of our website for Women Empowering Women CoDA & ACA. As a member of our group, it is important...

Topic for Aug 30th CoDA Meeting "Out of Isolation"

Isolation is a common topic of late, due to the pandemic and many whom had to isolate to protect themselves. This has had an impact on...

Working Step Nine by: Marie B.

“Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.” - Step Nine in CoDA Big Book....

Houston CoDA, North Texas CoDA Community Service Group and CoDA Texas are excited to welcome you in person at our next fall conference! ...

What is a Group Conscience?

Hello members, both old and new. The way things are done in a Twelve Step Group so as to have all of the members decide how the meeting...

A Newcomer's Perspective on Reparenting by: A.H.

In ACA, the way we heal and resolve our old traumas…is to reparent ourselves. When we find recovery in ACA, we discover that we can...

"Learning to Live" by: A.H.

The program of Co-Dependents Anonymous teaches us that we all have strengths, and that right now we are learning to carry out our life...

Adult Children and the Reparenting Process

ACA is a group specifically for those of use who were raised in either alcoholic homes or in dysfunctional homes where our needs during...

Codependency Recovery = Long Term Commitment

We are in CoDA, we know we stay in unhealthy relationships too long, but why is recovery from codependency such a long-term thing?...

Working Step 8 by: Marie B.

“Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” Co-dependency Anonymous (coda.org) Many...

"Working Step Seven" by: Marie B.

Step Seven: “Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcomings.” These few words are quite powerful in releasing the burden of our...

Meeting 6/28/21 "Stages of Change and our CoDA Recovery"

(Check the bottom of this post for BONUS content...worksheets that can help with one of the methods of change we reviewed in the meeting)...