Raised tendance in a bottle: FREE yourself from a childhood with alcoholism NEUF

FREE yourself from a childhood with alcoholismGrowing up in a family with alcohol abuse can leave you significantly scarred as an adult. The addiction robbed you of a caring, nurturing, secure and playful childhood, forcing you to become an adult too early. A lack of attention and compassion stifled your ability to grow into a whole person. As an adult, you might experience personal and professional problems related to feelings of abandonment or loneliness, relationship problems, low self-esteem, unhealthy coping strategies, and lack of clear boundaries.If you have felt traumatized, anxious, and depressed throughout your life, this is the book for you. Through in-depth chapters and exercises, you will:· Understand how families are shaped by alcohol addiction· Gain insight into how trauma affects your body and your mind· Learn how to build your self-esteem and become aware of your own feelings· How to identify unhealthy patterns and relationships and break free of them· Reshape your thoughts and beliefs about yourself and your futureThis book offers extensive insight into the dynamics and consequences of growing up with addiction.It provides the help and compassion that addiction stole from you when you were a child. In short, Raised in a Bottle offers new hope for reclaiming your own life.

Kristina Hermann is a psychotherapist and author with tendance a clinic in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has worked with families afflicted by alcohol abuse since 2000 and has written extensively about adult children of alcoholics. In 2015 she published a self-help book in Danish: Du er ikke alene: en opvækst med alkoholproblemer ("You are not alone: An upbringing shaped by alcohol problems"), now in its third printing. Raised in a Bottle: A Workbook for Adult Children of Alcoholics (in progress) is her first book in English.She received her Master in Psychology from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. In addition to her work as a psychotherapist, she also teaches seminars, conducts workshops, and is a supervisor of the work of other therapists.