Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents: An Evidence-Based Workbook to Heal Your Past - Paperback

by Kara Lissy (Author)

Your healing is in your hands with this evidence-based workbook for adult children of alcoholics

As the child of a parent or caregiver with an alcohol use disorder, you may still feel the impact of your experiences. Take the next steps on your healing journey with this workbook full of therapeutic techniques, journal prompts, quizzes, and other short exercises and activities to empower adult children of alcoholics. The self-guided approach allows you to work at your own pace as you examine how your experiences have shaped you, learn coping skills, grow in self-love, and build healthy relationships free from the harmful patterns you've experienced.

• Supportive exercises--Find exercises for combating negative self-talk, setting boundaries, working through guilt or shame, developing intimacy with yourself and others, and more.
• Proven techniques--Rebuild using effective therapeutic methods including cognitive behavioral therapy, assertiveness training, and other empirically supported tools.
• Realistic examples--Read stories from other adult children of alcoholics who have had similar experiences to help you remember that it isn't your fault and you're not alone.

Discover evidence-based techniques to help you heal in this workbook for adult children of alcoholics.

Author Biography

Kara Lissy is a licensed clinical social worker and full-time psychotherapist at A Good Place Therapy and Consulting in Manhattan. She provides therapy to adult children of alcoholics, along with other clients struggling with anxiety, depression, life transitions, and relationship stress.