Book of the Month: From Survival to Recovery

From Survival to Recovery Hardcover

Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home

Hardcover, 308 pages

Item: 3023

ISBN-10: 0910034974

ISBN-13: 9780910034975

Publisher: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.

Published Year: 1994

Online Price: $16.00 Each

Description:

How is it like to grow up in an alcoholic home?

"I have no idea. To survive, I blocked out the pain . . .

in fact, I blocked out everything!"


"Lonely."


"The only person I can honestly say is probably an

alcoholic is my mother, and she didn't have much effect

on me because she left me the day I was born."


"Terrifying!"


"I thought I had escaped and was determined never to

marry a man like my alcoholic father. I didn't. I

married a man like my mother instead."


"Confusing! Embarrassing! Mixed up!"

"I never saw Dad's bottles or noticed his drinking, but

my children did! I was crushed. I felt deceived. Worse,

I felt stupid!"


"I thought adult children were whiners. Then I

discovered I was an adult grandchild, and my mother's

abuse of me was related to grandfather's drinking. A

whole new world of understanding opened up for me."


Al-Anon adult children tell their stories -- with pathos and humor, with courage and rigorous honesty. They lift the many veils of family denial revealing the pain, recovering the past, and renewing the hope for all of us.
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