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5 Strengths of an ACOA

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What’s Your Greatest Asset?

Amy Eden writes about the assets of ACOA’s.

“I don’t know about you, but I sometimes feel exasperated with the emphasis on problems tied to being the offspring of alcoholics.

Today I need to hear the B side of the record, to think about our other characteristics.”

Here are her first five assets of ACOA’s.

YOU CAN EMPATHIZE
YOU’RE INDEPENDENT
YOU’RE CREATIVE
YOU’RE RESILIENT
YOU’RE CALM

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