As a parent engaged in the Recovery process, I've had to look back at my past while I assess my role as "protector" over my children and ask, "Who was I really protecting?".
Is it healthy to over protect? No.
Is it healthy to guard your children from danger? Yes.
Do we often strike a healthy balance? I do not know.
The balance challenge rests in the awareness of when, how, or whether we are passing down intergenerational trauma.
This Podcast is an uncomfortable deep dive into the necessary healing of past trauma in order to support our children's advancement to a future free of past generational trauma. My goal is simple: go forth, my boys, and be free of me.
2:15 - Therapists with Addiction experience: What is Addiction Therapy?
2:35 - Al-Anon and Families Anonymous
3:45 - Intergenerational Trauma definition
4:15 - Fight or Flight diagram
4:45 - Stressors in Mothers and impact on children, "Parenting stress may affect mother’s and child’s ability to tune in to each other"
5:20 - ACA Step 4, Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
6:00 - ACA Chapter 7, page 154, "Without knowing the meaning of the abandonment encoded within the past, the adult child is doomed to repeat it. The unexamined past becomes the future of the next generation. Dependence, addiction, and hellish living are pass on to the next generation with amazing accuracy."
7:50 - Dr. Brad Reedy's, "The Journey of the Heroic Parent"
10:30 - Inner Child Work from Psychology Today, a blog from Hal Shorey, Ph.D., "Healing the Wounds that Bind You". Hal Shorey is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at Widener University
10:30 - Healing Trauma Through Inner Child Workfrom the Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) Foundation
11:50 - Skit Guys, "The Serenity Prayer"... and, yes, I saved the best for last! Enjoy! xo

Thank you for listening and please visit www.siblinghoodofrecovery.com for free resources, links to organizations, groups and individuals who can offer help in the Journey of Recovery towards healing from substance use disorders. If you like this Podcast, please leave a rating on wherever you're listening. It will help to get the word out.
If there is one message I can leave you with, the best you can offer your loved one battling addiction is love and a healthier you.
Walk gently, my friend.