ACON Foundation

Supporting Adult Children of Narcissists Every Day

At the ACON Foundation, we exist to support Adult Children of Narcissists (ACONs) — people who grew up in families where love was conditional, safety was unpredictable, and validation was rare.

We know the deep loneliness and confusion that comes from being raised in an environment where your needs weren’t seen or honored. That’s why we’re building more than just a website — we’re building a Healing Home.

Our Upcoming ACON App

Our team is developing the ACON App, a first-of-its-kind platform designed specifically for survivors. The app will:

• Connect ACONs worldwide in safe, supportive small groups.
• Facilitate live “blessing exchanges” — moments where your truth is heard, validated, and affirmed by another.
• Offer guided healing resources tailored to the ACON experience, including education on trauma, boundaries, and recovery.
• Use AI-assisted support to gently match survivors with others who understand their journey.

The app will be a digital sanctuary — a place to rebuild the foundation many of us were denied.

Please use our CONTACT PAGE to tell us a little about your ACON experience (if you like) and be contacted by email once our App is ready to be tested! THANK YOU and WE DO LOVE YOU!

You can also DONATE HERE using Stripe, which is a safe and trusted payment platform. THANK YOU.

Education and Empowerment

Once you can understand, you can then overstand. That’s why we provide:

• Groundbreaking articles explaining how trauma affects your needs, relationships, and self-image.
• Practical guidance on healing strategies rooted in psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and Tony Robbins’ Six Human Needs framework.
• Step-by-step insights into topics like boundaries, reparenting, CPTSD recovery, and emotional regulation.

Our goal is to transform shame into understanding, and understanding into healing action.

 Our Overall Mission

The ACON Foundation is more than a resource — it’s a movement from “alone in a world where nobody can understand”, to meeting up (online and maybe eventually in real life) with those who were born to similar circumstances. Our ultimate goal at ACON Foundation is to help people grow by being heard by other ACONs who can actually empathsize with our unique plight of “feeling like the tree in the woods who fell without making a sound”. After all, who can empathize better than someone who has lived through it??!

Our simple “fathering” programs where we celebrate each other’s growth (through the upcoming App) will allow people to begin to grow again, just by being heard and validated. Because just like the flower of life shows, nothing builds from just one.

ACON Foundation App believes in validation of dreams and goals, the celebration of positive traits and goals, empathy, education, and for some the making of a new friend who understands. For others they may just wish to remain outside of working with others and just read the education materials, or participate in our monitored Chat sessions, or Post in our Forums on the App. We even have plans for “quick meet ups” for people who want to meet up with other ACONs locally, just to have a friend to take a walk through the park with, go to the beach with or similar, and maybe even celebrate a holiday together.

We know that most people “do things with family” , but ACONs really have no family that are even their friends! Therefore the ultimate goal of ACON Foundation and the ACON App is for Adult Children of Narcissists to work together and HEAL BEYOND.

The App aims to use AI to link people up who want to do more with their lives, but honestly are left alone and downtrodden from their family. It will have Users state small goals for others to encourage, discuss their hobbies, background, personality type, family history, education, interests, passions, what they feel they need help with (what they wish they could share with someone who actually cared), and other anonymous, humane details . From there AI and the officials at ACON Foundation will try to link people up for small “fathering” sessions where they can discuss their lives, possibly do things together online or eventually in real life, but overall CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER IN TINY BITES.

We believe that a tiny bit of empathy can go a long way, and there are alot of ACONs in the world who deserve a decent buddy who can bear to care about their goals for 2 minutes a week! That is going to be our Fathering Program and the basic goal of it is to have “someone who can understand and cares” so that people can grow past their traumas and leave their mentally ill families far behind. Because we believe in personal empowerment, yes, but also the fact that not even one petal on “the flower of life” has grown without the assistance and care of another one! HUMANS NEED EACH OTHER! And what validates our dreams to the Universe is another human who can bear to witness them and love them! YES we can get people beyond previous limits with just a little bit of LOVE.

We aim to:

• Provide safe, anonymous support to anyone who feels rootless because of family abuse.
• Help survivors rewrite their stories and reclaim their significance.
• Build a future where ACONs are no longer isolated, but connected, empowered, and whole.