Unwelcome Inheritance: Break Your Family's Cycle of Addictive

Unwelcome Inheritance: Break Your Family's Cycle of Addictive Behaviors

Parents affected by addiction can enable their childrenâ€™s substance abuse and even model addictive behaviors learned from their own parents, passing the cycle on from generation to generation. Learn what you can do to help yourself, your children, and future generations break the cycle of addiction and addictive behaviors.

Parents affected by addiction can enable their childrenâ€™s substance abuse and even model addictive behaviors learned from their own parents, passing the cycle on from generation to generation. Learn what you can do to help yourself, your children, and future generations break the cycle of addiction and addictive behaviors.Having grown up with a parent in the throes of addiction, or who got physically sober but perhaps not emotionally so, you know the ravages of addiction firsthand. Through counseling, self-help groups, or classic books such as Adult Children of Alcoholics, you may have an understanding of how the patterns and behaviors associated with addiction play out within families, but applying that knowledge to your own approach to relationships and parenting is another story.In Unwelcome Inheritance, Lisa Sue Woititz combines her own insights with the unpublished contributions of her late mother, the early leader in the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) movement, Dr. Janet Woititz, uncovering how multiple generations of people affected by addiction continue to enable their childrenâ€™s substance abuse and how, without realizing it, they continue to model the addictive behaviors learned from their own parents. These ACOA pioneers then bring to light these hidden behavior patternsâ€”including impulsivity, misplaced loyalty, people pleasing, insecure parenting styles, and multiple compulsive and addictive behaviorsâ€”so that you can take a clear look at how you got to this point. Additional points of inquiry, illustrated by stories from the trenches of the ACOA movement, help you explore what you can (and canâ€™t) do to help your children, your childrenâ€™s children, and yourself lead healthy, balanced lives.

Country	USA
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781616495909
ISBN	1616495901
Label	Hazelden Publishing
Manufacturer	Hazelden Publishing
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	192
PublicationDate	2015-04-29
Publisher	Hazelden Publishing
ReleaseDate	2015-04-29
Studio	Hazelden Publishing

Unwelcome Inheritance: Break Your Family's Cycle of Addictive Behaviors

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