Materials

Archive

A collection of our past newsletters.

Note: You may be interested in our archive of past blog posts—the Wordpress ASCA blog, spanning years 2011 to 2014.

Newsletters

Our archive contains 34 past issues of our newsletter, ASCA News, from 1999 to 2010. The most recent issues are at the top.

Item Issue Topics

#1

March, 2010 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Being authentic
  • Expressing anger
  • Etiology of dis-ease

#2

December, 2009 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • An introduction to ASCA

#3

February, 2003 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Call for submissions: the inner child
  • An interview with Rana
  • Poetry and an essay by Laurie Frye

#4

December, 2002 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • An interview with Stu, part 2
  • Poetry by James Daniel
  • Fiction by Thomas Taylor

#5

October, 2002 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • A short article on inner child issues, by Robert Seidler
  • An interview with Stu, part 1

#6

August, 2002 (pdf)

  • Introduction to our new editor
  • New regional meeetings

#7

June, 2002 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • From the desk of G. J. Bilotta, Ph.D.
  • As I see it, by Jessy Keiser
  • Poetry and prose

#8

March, 2002 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Essay on the psychological split, by Jono Schneider
  • A poem by Dorothy Law Nolte

#9

December, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • As I see it: parents as perpetrators
  • Poetry by James, Cynthia, and Kim
  • Holiday dynamics

#10

October, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • ASCA members from South Africa speak
  • Revisiting topics from our website
  • Disinviting an ASCA participant

#11

September, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Caring for our bodies
  • Ongoing commitment to recovery
  • Step 3 elaboration

#12

August, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Respect: to look again
  • How we are growing in respect
  • Our partial list of feelings

#13

July, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Recovery: integrating and thriving
  • Integrating unresolved childhood events
  • Step 8 elaboration

#14

June, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Dealing with reality: fighting, surrender, accepting
  • ASCA News: offering feedback
  • Step 18 elaboration (continued)

#15

May, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Recovery: a process
  • Our experience of recovery
  • Selecting helpful topics and materials for Rotation C meetings

#16

April, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Enriching the soil that fosters our emerging selves
  • Resistance: the rusty hinges of recovery
  • Poetry

#17

March, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Listening: the answers around us
  • Trust: only if they cherish
  • Relevancy of ongoing education during regular ASCA meetings

#18

February, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Respect: recovery’s soothing salve
  • Shame: the clinging residue of abuse
  • Preparing for an ASCA meeting

#19

January, 2001 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • What kind of a person? What kind of a life?
  • Maladaptive patterns and destructive behaviors
  • Conflicts within a meeting

#20

December, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Patience: acknowledging and accepting reality
  • The holidays: a stress-filled time of the year
  • Using the Survivor to Thriver manual

#21

November, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Not taking life for granted
  • What does it mean to have a sense of self?
  • Sharing that connects, sharing that disconnects

#22

October, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Reflecting on the surprisingly unexpected
  • The heart of the ASCA Meeting Guidelines
  • Criticism versus praiseworthiness

#23

September, 2000 (pdf)

  • Summary of the June – August 2000 issues of the ASCA News
  • Co-secretary training
  • Co-secretary update

#24

August, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Life’s integrity
  • Maintaining a relationship with a past perpetrator?
  • Supporting your ASCA meeting

#25

July, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Promoting courage within our lives
  • Telling our story
  • ASCA board of directors

#26

June, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • A reflective moment: approaching life
  • Sharing basics
  • Sadness

#27

May, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • The values by which we live
  • Money and donations
  • Money and finances

#28

April, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • The values by which we live
  • Co-facilitator interventions
  • Exploring relationships

#29

March, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • A reflective moment: life is a daily struggle
  • Telephone support sign-up
  • Courage: recovery’s adhesive

#30

February, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • The pause that refreshes
  • Art of supportive feedback
  • Depression: the yoke of childhood abuse

#31

January, 2000 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Elaboration on Guideline #5
  • A new book by Michael Lew
  • Looking forward: forming the future

#32

December, 1999 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Guideline #4 elaboration
  • Book announcement
  • Holidays: lost and found

#33

November, 1999 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Guideline #3 elaboration
  • Thankfulness: placing daily life into perspective

#34

October, 1999 (pdf)
Selections (web page)

  • Guideline #2 elaboration
  • Control: a paradox