Strengthening My Recovery: Meditations for Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families

There are other forms of adult child insanity, isolation, and manipulation that we engage in, which usually leaves us feeling abandoned, angry, or confused. Yet, we try again, repeating the same mistakes. Fueled by fear, our false self discounts real avenues of help. The false self chooses to reapply old thinking and behaving that guarantees the sa

Exercises for Chapter 10: 1. Write honestly about some event in your life in which you feel you behaved badly. a. On paper, confess clearly what you feel were your flaws in this situation, exactly where and how you erred. Take full selfresponsibility for your negativity. b. Allow yourself to feel fully the pain of the real guilt for what you did, s

Many of our parents truly wanted the best for us, but they handed off a sense of being incomplete as a person. We could never win enough awards or finish a project that made us feel whole. For most of us, our parents never said: “You have done enough. Take time to enjoy your accomplishment. Relax.”

Reparenting ourselves can mean many things, but the central theme is that we are willing to challenge our critical, inner voice and to care for the child within.