Tuesday Toolbox ACA

Tuesday Toolbox ACA

Stories of recovery from the effects of growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Recorded at the ACA Tuesday Toolbox meeting of ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Email us at TuesdayToolboxACA(at)Gmail.com.

Episodes

January 6, 2026 9 mins
Keegan talks about hir recovery and reads from The Big Red Book on verbal and emotional abuse.
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Wes talks about grief, his inner child, acceptance and practicing new way of experience.
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December 23, 2025 13 mins
Kat talks about self-love, meditation, and Buddhism as part of her recovery and connection to a Higher Power.
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December 16, 2025 12 mins
Shayne talks about growing up in unsafe environments, getting outside help paired with ACA recovery.
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October 21, 2025 17 mins
Jennifer ACA talks about recognizing the critical parent's voice, and how ACA recovery helped her to raise awareness and find healthy self parenting models for her recovery.
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October 14, 2025 16 mins
Michael ACA talks about repeating patters of family dysfunction in relationships, how he found hope in ACA rooms, and accepting powerlessness (Step 1) to start healing.
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October 7, 2025 17 mins
Rusty ACA talks about gentle, loving self reparenting tools and how he continues to develop a trusting relationship with his internal family system.
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September 30, 2025 16 mins
Carissa talks about recovering in ACA, how she used the tools to reshape her career and romantic relationship.
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July 22, 2025 11 mins
Kai talks about childhood neglect, inner-child work, loving parent workbook and self-parenting.
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July 15, 2025 16 mins
Claire talks about self abandonment, physical pain and how it can serve to cover up emotional pain.
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July 12, 2025 15 mins
Emily talks about the notion of Higher Power, how it is separate from organized religions, and 12-steps being a spiritual solution of one's own choosing in recovery from family dysfunction.
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July 10, 2025 15 mins
Franco talks about acceptance, acting vs reacting, dysfunctional family dynamic and detaching with love as a solution.
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May 6, 2025 14 mins
Lisa talks about grief and shame. She offers ACA community, journaling, parenting check-in and other tools of recovery.
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April 28, 2025 14 mins
B Aca talks about growing up in a para-alcoholic family, meditation, step study, self love and service as recovery tools.
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April 22, 2025 16 mins
John talks about growing up in an alcoholic family, self-love, and service as an expression of love.
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March 1, 2025 15 mins
Heather talks about growing up in a dysfunctional family, her healing process, how she re-parents herself, and self-care.
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March 1, 2025 15 mins
Allyson talks about steady recovery and forming a new kind of relationship with her family of origin.
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February 10, 2025 15 mins
Ann talks about slowing down as a recovery tool.
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February 10, 2025 15 mins
Sam talks about play as a recovery tool from childhood trauma.
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January 9, 2025 16 mins
Lana talks about growing in a dysfunctional family, effects of childhood neglect and her recovery journey.
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