Growing up in a home where there is addiction or relationship trauma
puts a child at great risk for long-term, post-traumatic stress effects
that adversely compromise adult relationships. Bestselling author,
psychologist, and psychodramatist Tian Dayton examines this trauma
through an exploration of the way the brain and body process frightening
or painful emotions and experiences in childhood, and she shows how
these traumas can become catalysts for unhealthy, self-medicating
behaviors including drug and alcohol abuse, food issues, and sex,
gambling, and shopping addictions.
Through Dr. Dayton's insightful analysis and thoughtful examination,
Adult Children of Alcoholics will learn how and why the pain they
experienced in childhood plays out in their adult partnering and
parenting, and they will learn how to restore health and happiness
through their resilience.