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Virtual Newcomer Welcome-Pack

Welcome to Adult Children of Alcoholics and Other Dysfunctional Families. Often, a newcomer asks where to find our books and literature, or a meetings list. This page is a good place to start. 

Our daily meditations are online for free. You can access each day's meditation online here: 

https://adultchildren.org/meditation/

Our fellowship has a number of books. The most widely-used books are the daily reader and our big book. Those are available either directly from ACA or from online booksellers such as Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Newcomers may also be interested in the Loving Parent Guidebook to help us on the path to becoming our own loving parent, and the yellow workbook for step study. For people who have completed the steps and want to work further on healing the dysfunction we inherited, we also offer a Laundry Lists workbook. 

The meeting finder can help you find local in-person meetings, phone meetings, or online meetings. If you find yourself in need of a meeting quickly, you can search on-line meetings by day of week and usually find one that is happening currently or fairly soon. 

We wish you the best, and welcome to ACA!


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