Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families

Author: John Friel
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN: 0932194532
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes but what about the rest of us? The authors provide a readable explanation of what happens to those of us who have had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, etc.

Becoming Your Own Parent

Author: Dennis Wholey
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553347883
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Readers are guided inside a series of intimate and powerful group meetings where fourteen "adult children" reveal the devastating effects of their chaotic childhoods, and the leading experts in the field of recovery offer insight and solutions.

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Author: Janet G. Woititz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757393411
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After decades of working with ACoAs she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Read Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here.

An Adult Child's Guide to What's Normal

Author: John Friel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757393322
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
You have begun to deal with the pain and trauma of being raised in a dysfunctional family and now you are ready to lead a healthy life. But: Do you know what healthy people do? Do you know what is “normal”? Do you know how to ask unwanted guests to leave? In An Adult Child’s Guide to What’s “Normal”, John and Linda Friel have written a practical guide to living a healthy life. Your parents may not have been able to teach you social skills but it is not too late to learn them now. Read this guide and learn how to respond to the challenges, problems and traps that we are faced with daily.

Unlocking Your Family Patterns

Author: David Carder
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 1575675242
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Revised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether you're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.

Change My Relationship

Author: Karla Downing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735245904
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A topically-indexed daily devotional for Christians in difficult relationships that includes a Scripture, reading, and short prayer on each page.

Repeat After Me

Author: Claudia, Black
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
ISBN: 1942094787
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
A new and revised edition of Claudia Black's groundbreaking workbook for adult children from dysfunctional families This updated edition of Dr. Black's revolutionary self-help workbook provides readers with a step-by-step framework and a guide that takes them through a process to recognize how present challenges are influenced by growing up in a troubled family system, release the parts of the past they wish to leave behind, and take greater responsibility for how they live today. Adult children tend to repeat the life scripts of their challenged, troubled families as a result of internalized beliefs and behaviors that were either modeled for them or were a part of their survival strategy. Claudia Black, world-renowned expert on dysfunctional families, articulates a seven-step process for readers to heal the wounds of their past. This is also an excellent resource to aid therapists, counselors, and other helping professionals in their work with clients to help them become aware of how their family system affected them and grow beyond it.

It Will Never Happen to Me!

Author: Claudia Black, Ph.D
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345345940
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
This "little green book," as it has come to be known to hundreds of thousands of C.O.A.'s and A.C.O.A.'s, is meant to help the reader understand the roles children in alcoholic families adopt, the problems they face in adulthood as a result, and what they can do to break the pattern of destruction.

The Laundry List

Author: Tony A.
Publisher: Hci
ISBN: 9781558741058
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
The originator of the ACoA "Laundry Lists" gives an insider's view of the early days of the ACoA movement. Tony A. discusses what it means to be an adult child of an alcoholic parent and what the self-help group can do for its members. Includes stories, history and helpful information for the ACoA.

Healing the Child Within

Author: Charles Whitfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757397573
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding that the Child Within (True Self) experiences and shows how to differentiate the True Self from the false self. He also describes the core issues of recovery and more. Other writings on this topic have come and gone, while Healing the Child Within has remained a strong introduction to recognizing and healing from the painful effects of childhood trauma. Highly recommended by therapists and survivors of trauma.