Gloria Byrd’s Reviews > Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics > Status Update

“Every time you make a mistake, you have learned one less way to do something.”

Because I am an ACoA, I can better appreciate stability, peace, kindness, and self-improvement as an adult.

“Events themselves do not change, but the sense of the experience does.”

“Becoming an adult and moving away (the "geographic cure") does not erase what you learned in that family. The lessons you learned in childhood-for better or worse-tend to endure. There exists in the present an eternal yesterday.”