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|  | | Afraid To Let Go. For Parents of Adult Addicts
A book written to explore the challenges of being a parent of an adult addict an alcoholic.
This book is for parents who are Afraid to Let Go because they do not know how to set boundaries with their adult children without feeling crippling anxiety, or walling themselves off to make separation possible.
You can't "let go". You can't "detach with love". You can't let them "hit bottom". You can't seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child's chaos and anxiety. When you try to do this, it makes you physically and emotionally ill, and the anxiety and fear becomes unbearable.
Afraid to let Go was written to address the parent that strug | |  | | Awakening Hope.
A unique approach to treating codependency from and attachment, behavioral, and adrenal damage perspective
I am a licensed therapist and addiction specialist who has trained counselors for over twenty years.Awakening Hope. A Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codepedency Treatment was developed in response to a disastrous relationship loss of my own that took place DESPITE my years in the field. I had to figure out what happened; why knowledge didn't prevent my loss of self.
I make the connection for readers between their developmental problems with attachment disruption; the anxious and avoidant behaviors in their relationships that result; and the adrenal system damage that | |  | | Codependency and Men
Addresses codependency for men by examining the role of gender and adrenal damage.
Codependency & Men was written out of curiosity. “Is Codependency experienced differently by men?” “What role does gender play in the way Codependency ‘looks’ for men?” “Should Codependency treatment be different for men?”
I have treated Codependent men for over two decades. The men in my practice have difficulty resonating with the term “codependency,” frequently as a result of the largely female-oriented terminology used to describe it. This led me to wonder if gender role created a resistance to recognition of their condition.
In addition to the early attachment issues that set up t |
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