Adult Children of Alcoholics: Managing Life Balance from ACoA Voices Across America Podcast

The quality of life is made up of the building blocks of relationships and maintenance of life balance. How do we identify the ingredients of life balance?

Let's explore the key factors of survival during transition; Life Balance..

Recorded at the ACA Voices Across America speaker meeting on October 3, 2024. I have uploaded this as an ACA podcast. 

This video is the second of two videos discussing personal relationships and balance amongst life realms.

These concepts are taken from the Intimacy Gram; a means of diagramming the quality of relationships and life balance. This tool can be used for anyone, but is helpful when dealing with a life transition, recovery from drugs, alcohol, codepencency, and trauma, and couples therapy. The book, The Intimacy Gram, is available on Amazon. This manual is like having a road map with a perosnal life coach.

I'm Ken Francis, M.S., California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of The Intimacy Gram and The Gratitude Snorkel and Other Bedtime Stories. I specialize in Alcohol Addiction treatment, Substance Use Disorder Treatment, trauma recovery, and group therapy. With Covid-19 social distancing practices, I have had to stop teaching classes at my clinic. This video and others are my attempt to make my educational topics available to my patients. I have placed them on YouTube so others can benefit. Please check out my other videos as they are a good resource for information on substance abuse, trauma, motivation, and gratitude.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
02:10 Structure in Recovery
02:28 Life Balance
03:10 Looking at Life as if it Were a Pie
06:05 Managing Transition
12:04 Benefits of each Life Realm Slice
13:20 Growing up without healthy balance
14:33 Extrovert, Introvert, Ambivert and Textroverts
16:33 Have-to's vs. Want-to's
18:02 Maintaining a Balance
18:59 Example of Loss of Balance - Approaching Life "Alcoholically"
20:11 Self-Esteem and Identity
21:38 Dark Realms
21:51 Addiction
22:41 Boredom
24:30 Nuggets
25:30 Codependency
26:21 Regrouping and Making New Balance
27:40 Friends and Family Slice
28:30 Becoming an Actor, Moving away from being a Reactor
29:36 Conclusion
30:20 A Challenge Moving Forward

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Kenneth M Francis

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