58 - ACA Step 4 - Why Our Past is Our Greatest Asset

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Andrea dives deep into Step 4 of the ACA program - "Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves." We discuss (and by we, I mean ME!) the purpose, the process, the key areas of focus (shame, abandonment, resentment, harm, and trauma) and what it means to take a blameless inventory. We also discuss how an ACA 4th step differs from a 4th step in AA/NA, as well as the limitations of the 12-steps in addressing unprocessed trauma.
ACA Step Workbook
Trauma and 12 Steps

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0:00.0	Our past can be our greatest asset if we are willing to ask for help and do the work to find out what happened.
0:07.0	My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
0:14.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:15.0	Yeah, what you holding on to.
0:20.0	But just let it all go.
0:22.0	What's making you slow now?
0:25.0	Let it all go.
0:27.0	Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up
0:32.0	and a dysfunctional family.
0:34.0	For any new listeners, I am Andrea.
0:37.0	I am a piece of work.
0:39.0	I am your resident shit show as well,
0:42.0	and this podcast is where we embrace the
0:44.5	shit show where we embrace being shit shows or we embrace our stories
0:51.6	especially the not-so not so wonderful parts of our past.
0:56.0	And that is exactly what we are doing today.
0:59.5	Y'all, we are diving deep into step four, made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
1:09.0	So this is the real meat and potatoes of the 12 steps in my opinion. It's like the right of
1:16.4	passage of the 12 steps regardless of what fellowship you're working it in, but
1:21.1	today we obviously are going to be looking at it from the adult child
1:24.8	angle and this step is where we are looking at all that shit that we have avoided looking at talking about thinking about
1:35.4	thinking about feeling about our abandonment our shame
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