Speaker library
Browse the latest recovery talks, workshops, and speaker shares across the 12-step fellowships.
Yona B shares their journey as an adult child of alcoholic and dysfunctional parents, detailing the profound impact of their upbringing, including adoption trauma and abuse. They describe learning to cope with constan...
Juliet shares their experience of connecting with their inner child, emphasizing the practice of non-dominant handwriting, which they adapt to daily journaling. They recount growing up in a dysfunctional home, their r...
Johnny O, a grateful cocaine addict sober since 1997, shares their powerful journey of recovery and service within Cocaine Anonymous. They emphasize the importance of spiritual maintenance, surrendering to a higher po...
Maggie D shares their journey of confronting family trauma, particularly their father’s alcoholism, which led to profound isolation and boundary issues. Through intensive personal growth seminars, family of origin wor...
Larry shares their experience with identifying and reframing the inner critic, a survival mechanism developed in dysfunctional homes. They discuss how understanding the critical parent, as outlined in ACA literature, ...
This talk, featuring speaker Kid, delves into the concept of boundaries within the context of adult children of alcoholics recovery. Kid shares personal experiences and insights from the Big Book, emphasizing that bou...
Larry shares their deeply personal journey, detailing the profound impact of childhood trauma, including a difficult family dynamic and negative experiences in a Catholic school setting. They discuss how these experie...
Cam shares their Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA) recovery journey focusing on their relationship with money and how it was shaped by their parents’ values and behaviors. They discuss learning to save, invest, and s...
June shares her personal journey of overcoming isolation and learning to process difficult emotions. She discusses how isolation served as a coping mechanism in her childhood but hindered her adult recovery. June emph...
Leonarda shares their journey of reconnecting with their inner child after a childhood marked by emotionally immature parents. Through somatic therapy, they learned to set boundaries and allow their inner child to exp...