This Workbook identifies the 14 traits that children develop and carry into adulthood as a result of growing up in dysfunctional families no matter the cause of the dysfunction. It shows a process of working through and healing from these traits. It expands the brief description of the "Other" or Opposite Laundry List identified in the Adult Children of Alcoholics / Dysfunctional Families core book, p. 8). It contains concise questions to guide the recovering adult child in dealing with actual traumatic episodes that created feelings of inferiority, shame, guilt, and anger (emotional intoxication). This workbook outlines a recovery process for healing the injury and conflict caused by childhood trauma and its continued reenactment, and for withdrawing from emotional intoxication. No matter whether there was alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex abuse, physical abuse, neglect, or actions by immature parents, we develop similar traits or characteristics that interfere with our ability to form happy and healthy relationships with partners, at work, and anywhere else that fear and self doubt can enter into our lives. By finding a twelve steps meeting of adult children of alcoholics and working through this book and reparenting yourself, you will come to know a new way to live that will relieve the pain, shame, and years of stored anger you have endured since childhood. Twelve steps 12 steps laundry list ACA WSO complex ptsd mental health self help love reparenting how to heal your inner adult child children of alcoholics healing developmental trauma recovery inner child workbook book for women codependence journal yourself.
