ACA Tucson ACA Meetings - Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families

Tucson ACA Meeting Times from ACA AZ Intergroups list of 13 Tucson Meetings - Feb 2026

Tucson Adult Children of Alcoholic and/or Dysfunctional Families.

Teaching the skills to Re-parent ourselves with 

Gentleness, Humor, Love and Respect.

Is ACA for Me?

An “adult child” is someone who meets the demands of life with survival techniques learned as children. Without help, we unknowingly operate with ineffective thoughts and judgments that can sabotage our decisions and relationships.

The only requirement in ACA is a desire to recover from the effects of growing up in a dysfunctional home, regardless of whether or not alcohol was a factor. There are no screening committees, questionnaires, or waiting periods to join. You are an ACA member when you say you are.

We commonly identify with these 14 traits (the "Laundry List") that describe the effects of being raised in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family:

1. We became isolated and afraid of people and authority figures.
2. We became approval seekers and lost our identity in the process.
3. We are frightened of angry people and any personal criticism.
4. We either become alcoholics, marry them or both, or find another compulsive personality such as a workaholic to fulfill our sick abandonment needs.
5. We live life from the viewpoint of victims and we are attracted by that weakness in our love and friendship relationships.
6. We have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility and it is easier for us to be concerned with others rather than ourselves; this enables us not to look too closely at our own faults, etc.
7. We get guilt feelings when we stand up for ourselves instead of giving in to others.
8. We became addicted to excitement.
9. We confuse love and pity and tend to "love" people we can "pity" and "rescue."
10. We have "stuffed" our feelings from our traumatic childhoods and have lost the ability to feel or express our feelings because it hurts so much (Denial).
11. We judge ourselves harshly and have a very low sense of self-esteem.
12. We are dependent personalities who are terrified of abandonment and will do anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to experience painful abandonment feelings, which we received from living with sick people who were never there emotionally for us.
13. Alcoholism is a family disease; and we became para-alcoholics and took on the characteristics of that disease even though we did not pick up the drink.
14. Para-alcoholics are reactors rather than actors. (Codependents)

Identification with some or all of these traits provides a starting point of recovery for each adult child looking for help.

ACA Arizona Intergroups list of 13 Tucson Meetings - Feb 2026

Time	Meeting	Location / Group	Address	Region
6:00 PMFriday	Recovery Solutions (formerly Self-Parenting)	Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church	5360 E Pima St	Tucson
6:30 PMFriday	Friday Night Safe Place	Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church	5360 E Pima St	Tucson
10:00 AMSaturday	Misfits	Northwest Alano Club	3120 W Curtis Rd	Tucson
11:00 AMSaturday	Discovering Our True Selves	Dove of Peace Church	665 W Roller Coaster Rd	Tucson
11:00 AMSaturday	Focusing On Solutions To Recovery	Lutheran Church of the Risen Saviour	555 South La Cañada Drive	Tucson
6:00 PMSaturday	The Saturday Night Serenity Group	Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church	7570 N Thornydale Rd	Tucson
5:00 PMSunday	Women's Freedom of ChoiceWomen	St. Phillip's in the Hills Episcopal Church	4440 N Campbell Ave	Tucson
12:30 PMMonday	Meet Your Inner Family	6700 N Oracle Rd, #411	6700 N Oracle Rd UNIT 411	Tucson
6:00 PMMonday	Self Love and Forgiveness	St. Phillip's in the Hills Episcopal Church	4440 N Campbell Ave	Tucson
6:00 PMTuesday	Women's Serenity Tuesday		Zoom	Tucson
4:00 PMWednesday	Misfits	Northwest Alano Club	3120 W Curtis Rd	Tucson
6:00 PMWednesday	Adult Children Recovery	Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church	5360 E Pima St	Tucson
12:30 PMThursday	Thursday Women’sWomen	6700 N Oracle Rd, #411	6700 N Oracle Rd UNIT 411	Tucson