Self Help for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Childhood Emotional Neglect

Many Adult Children of Alcoholics feel stuck, lost, afraid, resentful and frustrated by their circumstances. Because they were raised by inebriated, denial based caretakers--they were denied a healthy mirroring of Self-Love, Self-Appreciation, and Unconditional Love for Self.When your caretakers deny you the nurturing you deserve, you go through life feeling as if you are ill--wrong--broken--and stained. The wounds these feelings create are deep, and shatter a child's much needed sense of safety. The ability to trust Self is lost, as the child presumes the angst within--is something he/she deserves. Future adult relationships all stem from the programmed dysfunctional perceptions of ones childhood. ACoA's often times attract into their experience partners who are very much like one of their caretakers. Because all beings attract what they know--even if what they know is dysfunctional--until a being becomes truly AWARE of that which is unconsciously driving all of their conscious decisions as adults--life cannot unfold happily. Here we explore what it means to make that which is unconscious conscious--so to heighten our understanding and thus awareness of Self. As awarness of self is expanded--so to is the love of self--for as one will ultimately learn here--we ACoA's were nevernot enough,we are not our pasts, nor our dysfuntional thoughts. Lisa A. Romano Author/Coach/Speaker