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Unwelcome inheritance, break your family's cycle of addictive behaviors, Lisa Sue Woititz and Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D

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Unwelcome inheritance, break your family's cycle of addictive behaviors, Lisa Sue Woititz and Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

Main title

Unwelcome inheritance

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electronic resource eBook

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Lisa Sue Woititz and Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D

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break your family's cycle of addictive behaviors

Summary

Parents affected by addiction can enable their children'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

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A childhood from hell. The teenager your parents warned you about. TAKEAWAY: Comfort zone of tension -- Chapter 2: Unwelcome inheritance. Alcoholism and other drug addictions affect the whole person. Characteristics of adult children of alcoholics. Codependency and addictive thinking. Learning from our family history. TAKEAWAY: Addiction affects the mind, body, and spirit. -- Chapter 3: A look at three generations. Mom and the red hat. Jackie's story. Breaking the cycle: Johnny's story. Courage to change. TAKEAWAY: An expanded view of family. -- Chapter 4: Adult children as parents. History doesn't have to repeat itself. Adult children raising children. TAKEAWAY: Remember to focus on the positive. -- Chapter 5: Adult children raising alcoholics. Stories from the trenches. Action vs. Reaction. We are not alone. TAKEAWAY: Together we can do what we cannot do alone. -- Chapter 6: Breaking the cycle. Let it begin with me. Breaking the cycle with our kids. Trusting our instincts. TAKEAWAY: Parenting can be messy. -- Chapter 7: Breaking the cycle of anger and resentment. Marie's story. Letting go of expectations. TAKEAWAY: How unexpressed anger can become depression. -- Chapter 8: Changing the things we can. TAKEAWAY: A few final words from Dr. Jan. -- Epilogue -- Notes -- About the authors

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