| The Libertyville ACOA Meetings
are held each Monday evening from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
at the St. Lawrence Episcopal
Church in Libertyville, IL.
The church's address is:
125 W Church St
Libertyville, IL 60048
Phone:(847)362-2110
Meetings are held every Monday night without
fail!
(The meeting is held on the Church's
lower level. Park in the rear and enter through rear
doors)
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Welcome to ACOA. Adult Children of alcoholics
is a 12-Step, 12-Tradition
program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise
dysfunctional homes. We meet with each other in a mutually
respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences.
We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences
us in the present.
We take positive action. By practicing the 12
Steps, focusing on the solution,
and accepting a loving Higher Power of our understanding,
we find freedom from the past and a way to improve our lives
today.
Our lives didn't work; they had become unmanageable.
We exhausted all the methods we thought were supposed to have
made us happy, healthy, and successful.
In trying to reach our desired ends, we exhausted our resources.
We often lost our creativity, our flexibility, and our sense
of humor. No matter what we did, the results no longer gave
us the thrill, the joy, the sense of power, or the feeling
of elation they once did. We were at a dead-end. Continuing
the same existence was no longer an option. Nevertheless,
we couldn't quite abandon the notion that if we knew just
one more thing about how the world worked... So we tried one
more time. With little to win, nothing to lose, we came to
our first meeting.
In ACOA we come to understand how our childhood
experiences affect our behavior and choices today. We learn
how our behavior affects others, and we learn that we can
change it. Gradually, from an adult perspective, we reexamine
our life decisions. This is the first step in reparenting.
Ultimately we become happier, stronger, more capable, and
more able to take on a proactive role. We learn to be more
respectful of ourselves. The quality of our lives improves
as we learn to define and communicate our boundaries and insist
that they be honored.
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Welcome to the Monday Night ACOA Group
meeting. This information is to serve as an introduction
to our group in hopes that by clarifying our purpose
and direction you too will become an active growing
recovering member of our ACOA family.
· Meetings are held each Monday evening from
7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence Episcopal Church (lower
level, enter through rear doors)
· A special business session is held following
the second Monday meeting of each month and is open
to all members.
· We are a non-smoking group.
· Our weekly discussions alternate each week
between one of the ACOA characteristics and one of the
twelve steps. A volunteer prepares the opening lead
(15 to 20 minutes long) that serves as a focal point
for discussion in our small groups. During our small
group discussions, we refrain from cross talk to insure
each person uninterrupted sharing time.
· All group members are invited to join us after
our meeting is adjourned at a local restaurant for a
casual gathering of ACOA fellowship (Baker’s Square
on Milwaukee Avenue). The chairperson will ask if any
members will be going for coffee and fellowship before
the close of the meeting. Those planning on attending
will indicate so by a show of hands.
ACOA Redbook affirmations: Red Book Affirmations
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