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Adult Children of Alcoholics

Ann Brenoff

Would You Want Your Kids To Feel This Way About Your Death?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.09.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Children of Alcholics, Depression, Drunk Parents, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcoholic Parents, Alcoholism, Father's Death, Death of a Parent, Fatherhood, post50, Parenting post50, Randy Clemens, Being Raised by an Alcoholic, Fifty News

Am I upset that my dad died? Not anywhere near as upset as I am that he chose to never live.

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WATCH: How To Save Mom And Dad From Their Alcohol Abuse

Posted 04.12.2013 | Fifty
Read More: How to Have an Intervention, Elderly Parents, Video, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Staging an Intervention, Intervention, Alcoholism, Addiction, Youth and Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Caregivers, Fifty News

Boomers have a far different relationship with their parents than their children have with them. While their kids may feel comfortable talking to them...

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Resilience, Recovery and Optimism

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Acoas, Addiction, Recovery, Optimism, Addiction and Recovery, Resilience, Addiction Research, Recovery Research, Alcoholism, Addiction and Recovery Research, Recovery Week, Children of Alcoholics, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Healthy Living News
Dr. Tian Dayton

Nothing is black and white, and no one -- not even the most fortunate among us -- makes it through life unscathed. So what questions do we need to ask ourselves in order to find that invisible line between too little and too much focus on a painful past?

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Adult Children of Alcoholics

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.28.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Addiction, Recovery Week, Recovery, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Acoas, Addiction & Recovery, Children of Alcoholics, Acoa, Healthy Living News
Dr. Tian Dayton

Adult children of alcoholics (ACoAs) can and often do suffer from some features of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that are the direct result of living with the traumatizing effects of addiction.

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What Makes Us Tick

Randi Miller | Posted 05.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Understanding Self-Destructive Behaviors, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Learning, Acoa, Addiction and Recovery, Alcoholic Parents, Alcoholism, Mental Health, Children of Alcoholics, Healthy Living News
Randi Miller

We hear a lot about dysfunction and how experiences from our childhoods can influence our lives well into adulthood. I think this is true on both the positive and negative sides.

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We Came To Believe: Step Two On The Recovery Journey

Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley | Posted 10.29.2011 | Religion
Read More: Adult Children of Alcoholics, Al-Anon Family Groups, Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, Religion and Recovery, Christianity, Sobriety and Christianity, Twelve Steps, Twelve Steps and Christianity, Christian Recovery, 12 Step Recovery Groups, Religion News
Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley

People in recovery joke that in sobriety they "get their brains back." God helps us not only to become sober and stay sober, but also restores us to sane and sensible thinking.

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