Posts Tagged ‘children of alcoholics’
The Trauma of Children of Addicts and Alcoholics
The trauma that children of addicts and alcoholics experience can be life-changing. Frequent guest author, Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT, explains what it can be like her her article below. To read her longer version, please click Children of Alcoholics/Addicts. Darlene is the author of Codependency for Dummies and Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You, and…
Read MoreI Could Have Developed Alcoholism | I Developed Bulimia Instead
I still look back with great sadness on the 11 years I spent binging and purging (bulimia) and the year I spent “dieting” (anorexia) — my lost years from ages 16-28. To the person whose never been bulimic, it’s impossible to understand why someone would “choose” to eat huge quantities of food and then throw…
Read MoreI Hate You and I Love You – Daughter of an Alcoholic
Helping children and adults understand the secondhand drinking (SHD) impacts a child experiences when growing up with a parent’s alcoholism* is essential to helping a child (or an adult child) heal from the SHD-related ACEs s/he likely experienced. Secondhand Drinking (SHD) refers to the negative impacts of a person’s drinking behaviors on others. Drinking behaviors include verbal,…
Read MoreTalking to Children About a Parent’s Recovery
Talking to children about a parent’s recovery – yes? no? sort of? But how? Your spouse is about two-thirds the way through a 28-day rehab. You see great progress, but s/he still doesn’t want to tell the children. S/he says your younger ones are too young to understand and the older ones are so engrossed in their own…
Read MoreChildren of Alcoholics – National Celebration
Children of Alcoholics – a national celebration, February 10 – 16, 2013, and an international celebration the same week. Why a national and international celebration? To raise awareness about what happens to the silent victims of a parent’s chronic, often relapsing brain disease – alcoholism. Before I continue, let me first say – the purpose…
Read MoreAn Adult Child of an Alcoholic Shares Her Story
Herself an adult child of an alcoholic, award-winning author of Goodbye America, passionate advocate for children of alcoholics and author of Supreme Sacrifice, Rita Malie, shares what it’s like in the following guest post. An Adult Child of an Alcoholic Shares Her Story by Rita Malie When I was born in the 1940’s, there was little…
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