Letter To The Many Adult Children Of Addicts & Alcoholics
It’s all about falling in love with healing yourself
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5 min readMay 22, 2020
“I can only love myself as much as I believe I’m lovable.”
— Al-Anon/ Alateen
To Dear You:
This open heart letter is to those of us who grew up in terrifying and disrupted homes with alcoholic or addict parents — to the children, now grown into adults ourselves — who developed many ways to survive in the midst of often severe extremes of frightening emotional violence and chaos.
Almost as though living in a constant state of deadly warfare, or in a never-ending screaming tornado, smashing our windows, our doors, our home and our life…
Always waiting, wide awake and on red alert for the next serious life-threatening attack from out of left-field — the next violent physical, psychic, emotional…
