HOW DO I HELP MY CHILD? Healing of memories and traumas: It is easier for an emotionally strong child to overcome addiction than a child struggling with feelings/ emotions such as rebellion, anger, bitterness and depression. The way to address this type of behavior is by healing your childs early imprints of emotional hurts and trauma. We have all had disappointments and losses. Many of us have experienced abandonment and betrayal. Some are able to move on but for some the hurts stick. The bad experience becomes a reference point for what we can expect from other people, from ourselves and from life itself. We find it very difficult to trust and to start out in neutral with new people. It makes building and maintaining a relationship especially hard. Your childs baggage will will hamper his/her consistency in the recovering process and in building healthy relationships when overcoming their addiction. Baggage is when your reactions in the present are controlled by past pain.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:08:59 +0000