Groundwork:
Anchoring Your ACA Recovery

A 4-Week Mentoring Series
with Barb Nangle

Not sure where to start in ACA*?

This isn’t sponsorship. It’s something gentler.

A 4-week private mentoring experience to help adult children anchor into ACA literature, reflect on their lived experience, and feel less alone.

 

*Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families

My well-worn collection of ACA literature
My well-worn collection of ACA literature

What Groundwork Is...

If you’re new to ACA—or you’ve been around for a while but never fully connected with the literature—this is for you.

Groundwork is a 4-week 1:1 mentoring experience where I walk you through some of the most essential ACA writings:
✓ The Problem
✓ The Solution
✓ The Promises
✓ The Laundry List + Other Laundry List

We’ll read, reflect, and talk through how these truths show up in your life. This is not sponsorship and we will not be doing the 12 Steps. But you’ll come away with something just as valuable: clarity, resonance, and a deeper understanding of your experience as an adult child.

This ACA Mentoring Program is for you if…

  • You’ve read or heard about ACA but don’t feel grounded in it yet

  • You recognize yourself in the Laundry List and want to unpack it

  • You’re still not sure what the “problem” is—or what the “solution” might be

  • You’re feeling stuck between recognizing family dysfunction and not knowing what to do about it

  • You’re not ready to dive into step work, but you want to start somewhere

  • You crave a safe, calm, direct mentor who can help you feel seen

  • You want to stop feeling ashamed for how you learned to survive

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This ACA Mentoring Program is NOT for you if…

 

  • You don't identify as an Adult Child
  • You're not familiar with 12-step recovery of any kind
  • You're looking for a quick fix
  • You're not willing to be vulnerable and share what's really going on with you

What's included...

  • Four weekly 1:1 Zoom sessions (60 minutes)

  • Guided walk-through of key ACA texts

  • Weekly PDF handouts with excerpts + journaling prompts

  • Gentle reflection + coaching during each call

  • Optional: 5th bonus integration session if paid in full

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The Investment

  • $1,100 if paid in full (includes 5 sessions)
  • or 2 payments of $575 (4 sessions total)

This mentoring series is a stand-alone offer and may also serve as a foundation for deeper work later

Testimonials
Kind Words from Amazing People

"I was contemplating dating again, after a 3 year break to focus on me. I thought at the beginning of the program that I had recovery nailed and just needed a few tips to get ready to date again. Boy was I wrong! I learned so much more.

I learned about my childhood pattern to fix others, to identify it, and when I repeated that pattern. I learned to set boundaries at work with my personal time and to stand up to others when I was treated badly. I learned to ask for what I want and need, kindly. I learned what an enmeshed relationship feels like, and how that was the only type of relationship I had, and that healthy actually felt distant to me. And I converted one of my relationships with my BFF from enmeshed to healthy."

~ Carol

I had just left my husband and moved in with my mom.  I had been in Al-Anon for 12 months prior to working with Barb.  I was hyper-focused on others behavior that was outside of my control that was impacting my daily walk.  I was allowing other people values, opinions, behavior and attitude impact me on a deep level.

I learned what my values are so that I have a starting place with boundaries.  I learned where I have power and what is NONE OF MY BUSINESS.  I learned what boundaries I need to keep me safe and which ones are to keep others safe from me.

~ Chris

I couldn’t operate in the world without tending to others first, whether or not they asked for or wanted my help. Being so unapologetically other-focused, my only tool for relief was to cut people off and isolate when I hit a wall. Yet having squashed my needs and feelings for so long, I could no longer find any peace in isolation either.

I gained an understanding of why, where, and how to set boundaries, and got started right away. I trusted Barb’s immense scholarship, and quickly felt all the warmth and growth that is possible for a person when a lifelong shame finally thaws. Self-compassion is real for me now, for the first time EVER. No exaggeration. Boundaries are everything, and Barb is the master.

~Jean

SCHEDULE

Week 1: The Problem

Week 2: The Solution

Week 3: The Promises and Traits

Week 4: Putting It All Together

Week 5: (If paid in full) Integration

You don’t have to figure it all out at once. You just need to take the next honest step. This is that step.

You’re not too late. You’re not too broken. You’re right on time.

Payment Options

2-Month
Payment Plan

$550 

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Boundaries by Design 3-month payment plan

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Includes 4 sessions

Paid-in-Full

$1100

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Boundaries by Design paid in full

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Includes a 5th bonus session

Once paid, you'll receive an email to schedule your first call.

 

If you'd like talk to Barb first, you can sign up for a 15-minute inquiry call with her here.

 

 

What people say about coaching with Barb...

Working with Barb will change your life. You'll start to see yourself more clearly and you'll have more agency. Her knowledge, insights, and approach are powerful and effective.

 ~  Emilie

I’m in awe of how much more love, care, and compassion I’m capable of feeling towards myself. 

~ Lauren

Within four weeks with Barb, I had experienced more growth than I had experienced in 4 years with my private therapist.

~ Claire

I quickly felt all the warmth and growth that is possible for a person when a lifelong shame finally thaws. Self-compassion is real for me now, for the first time EVER. No exaggeration.

~Jean

Barb helped me to value and respect myself and to make that my center.

~ Louise

I've learned the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships and how I may have equated love with behavior that I was taught that is actually unhealthy.

~ Chris