Parental Alienation Anonymous – Literature Policy
Literature plays a crucial role in the recovery and healing journey of Parental Alienation Anonymous (PAA) members. As an organization dedicated to supporting individuals affected by parental alienation, estrangement, and erasure, we draw inspiration and guidance from Al-Anon approved literature. This ensures that our 12-step program aligns with the principles of recovery, healing in family systems, and addressing issues specific to parental alienation.
Once PA-A.org releases it’s meeting specific leterature ALanon literature shall be be included but as a secondary source. PA-A literature shall be the primary literature used once it is released.
Al-Anon Approved Literature for Parental Alienation Anonymous Meetings:
1. Paths to Recovery (Al-Anon)
- Description: Paths to Recovery serves as the primary text used in our 12-step program, containing steps, traditions, and reflective questions for each step. This valuable resource guides members through the recovery process with insights and wisdom tailored to healing in the context of parental alienation.
- Link to Order: Paths to Recovery
2. Living Today in Alateen
- Description: Living Today in Alateen offers practical guidance and support for individuals navigating challenging family dynamics, including parental alienation. It provides tools for self-care, setting boundaries, and fostering resilience in the face of adversity.
- Link to Order: Living Today in Alateen
3. Hope for Today (Al-Anon)
- Description: Hope for Today offers daily reflections and meditations to support individuals in their recovery journey, providing encouragement, inspiration, and a sense of community. These reflections can be particularly beneficial for those grappling with parental alienation and its emotional toll.
- Link to Order: Hope for Today
4. Courage to Change (Al-Anon)
- Description: Courage to Change is a transformative resource that encourages individuals to embrace personal growth, step out of their comfort zones, and navigate challenging situations with courage and resilience. It can be a valuable companion for those facing the complexities of parental alienation.
- Link to Order: Courage to Change
5. Alateen Talks Back
- Description: Alateen Talks Back offers insight and perspectives from young people navigating family issues, providing a unique vantage point on coping with parental alienation and estrangement. It offers hope, understanding, and support to young individuals affected by family dynamics.
- Link to Order: Alateen Talks Back
Parental Alienation Anonymous honors the wisdom and guidance found within Al-Anon literature, adapting and applying it to the specific challenges and experiences faced by individuals coping with parental alienation, estrangement, and erasure. By utilizing Al-Anon’s approved literature, we offer a roadmap for healing, recovery, and transformation in the context of family systems affected by parental alienation.
Paths to Recovery link https://ecomm.al-anon.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=B24
Courage to change is our other primary literature. It is a daily meditation and reflection compiled from all of Al-Anon’s literature. It is a great daily prompt to write on, meditate on and use in our daily practices out in the world.
Courage to Change link https://ecomm.al-anon.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=B16&WebsiteKey=db6e68f1-b2fe-4aaa-baea-928d4e696dcc
Below are several other books that are used in various meetings. Read and explore as much as you can. Recovery comes from the books, meetings, fellowship, and steps.
How Al-Anon Works link https://ecomm.al-anon.org/ItemDetail?iProductCode=B32&WebsiteKey=db6e68f1-b2fe-4aaa-baea-928d4e696dcc
Opening our Hearts, Transforming our Losses link https://ecomm.al-anon.org/EN/ItemDetail?iProductCode=B29
Discovering Choices link https://ecomm.al-anon.org/EN/ItemDetail?iProductCode=B30
From Survival to Recovery link https://ecomm.al-anon.org/EN/ItemDetail?iProductCode=B21
7 Responses
In addition to ‘ambiguous loss’, targeted parents suffer from ‘disenfranchised grief’. That is, most people do not know how to support a targeted parent’s grief because they do not understand parental alienation because it can be hard to understand it or believe it can happen unless it is experienced in some way firsthand.
Where can I find a support group for alienated parents. My 22-year old son has banished me after he moved into his stepfather’s mansion with his mother. I feel like I’m dying. I was hoping there are support groups in New York, Long Island specifically. If not I’m finished. My son adored me and I did everything right and has cut me from his life in favor of his step-father. I’m living in total darkness.
Welcome to Parental Alienation Anonymous (PA-A.org). We are glad you have found us. Feel free to reach out via email (parentalalienationanonymous@gmail.com) to receive our weekly meeting schedule as well as other information you might find useful.
This is a slow process but many of us have found healing on this journey through PA-A.
I am interested in your PA-A.org weekly meeting schedule. I have been alienated from both of my sons who are grown men, most recently my youngest who is 30, and I am in severe pain of this loss and need the help and support of others who are experience the similar situations. I believe that their wives have a lot to do with it, but whether or not this is true, there is nothing I can do to change this. I can only seek help and support for myself and learn to live with this tragic misfortune. Please contact me as soon as possible. The pain is quite unbearable at times. Thank you, Celine.
hello,
Welcome to the community and sounds like a challenging path you’re walking like the rest of us. I agree with you the pain is quite unbearable many times. A great thing about the program is it gives you a little bit of space from the pain and community to talk to about what you’re struggling with that you don’t need to explain anything because they’re struggling to. And some reunited and somewhat connected another fashion so those people all over the curve attending meetings.
You can fill in the contact sheet on the website or you can email Parentalalienationanonymous@gmail.com for some more personal help if you’re struggling to get onto some meetings. Good luck out there.
Do you have any local support groups in Denver Colorado
hi there,
all our meetings are currently online. There are 18 meetings a week so you should be able to find plenty that you’re able to attend. At the meetings to meet people from all over the country including Denver and some folks might’ve started in person meetings you can ask when you attend meetings.
Great to have you as part of the community and if you need further assistance please email Parentalalienationanonymous@gmail.com