The Loving Parent Guidebook: The Solution is to Become Your Own Loving Parent (Softcover, Spiralbound)

The Solution in the Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families (ACA and ACoA) program is to become your own loving parent. The Loving Parent Guidebook explores, in practical terms, how to build this healing resource into your life. The book provides guidance on creating the conditions to reclaim your inner child and reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect. You can apply everything you learn in this guidebook to parenting, interacting with children, and interacting with adults. When you become a friend to yourself, you're naturally a friend to others. The book is structured to help you access the love inside you and grow the awareness and skills you need to become your own loving parent.The Solution really is to become your own loving parent, and this book explains how. Developing your reparenting skills can change your life. Within these pages youll find practical tools to help you reparent yourself with gentleness, humor, love, and respect.This book could benefit all ACAs and fills a huge need in our program for concrete information on how to embrace the ACA Solution. The Loving Parent Guidebook finally provides practical instruction on HOW to reparent. - Fellow TravelerThis guidebook is excellent! It provides a new and powerful approach to loving parent work. - Fellow TravelerIts like all the things I needed but didnt get growing up are presented in this book. Its such a beautiful and important piece of work. After nine years in ACA and 26 years in other 12 Step programs, I truly feel that I have finally arrived home. - Fellow TravelerIm incredibly impressed with the sensitivity, care, strength, and power of this book. - Fellow TravelerACA is a spiritual program based on action coming from love. It was created for people who have some or all of the 14 survival traits commonly known as the Laundry List. These are the personality traits that people who grow up in dysfunctional families frequently share.The Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families 12 step program is often the only program for many adult children recovering from growing up in a home with alcoholism or other family dysfunction. ACA meetings are intended to be safe places where we can share our experience, strength and hope without judgment or criticism. The program is recommended for people who have suffered abuse, neglect, abandonment, and trauma in childhood due to the behavior of addicted or dysfunctional immature parents. They often do not fully realize the impact these actions had on them until they are in the recovery process. This booklet provides answers that newcomers might have before they attend their first ACA meeting. Reparenting, self-love, re-parenting, self-parenting, healing, trauma recovery, dysfunctional families, inner child, inner teenager, inner critic, critical parent, recovery Reparenting,self-love,re-parenting,self-parenting,healing,trauma recovery,dysfunctional families,inner child,inner teenager,inner critic,critical parent,recovery