Our past can be our greatest asset if we are willing to ask for help and do the work to find out what happened.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

What's holding on to?

Let it all go. For any new

now, I'm a total child. And I'm the capital child. And I'm the captain of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy, my dear shit shows. For any new listeners, my name is Andrea.

I am a total and complete shit show and I am the captain of this hot mess of a ship.

I grew up in an alcoholic home.

I was the scapegoat slash identified patient.

I started drinking and using drugs when I was 12 and became an alcoholic myself before finally getting sober at 19. And then after many, many years of not understanding why I turned into a complete

psychopath every time I got into a relationship, I realized that my childhood screwed me up a whole

hell of a lot more than I initially thought

and that what I experienced was actually a little old thing that we call complex drama

and that what I was experiencing in romantic relationship is a little old thing that we call

complex PTSD.

And so this is the podcast where we talk about how to heal from growing up in family dysfunction and complex PTSD. And so this is the podcast where we talk about how to heal from growing up in

family dysfunction and complex trauma. Welcome aboard. Buckle up. So I'm currently on a

little break. And in the meantime, we are revisiting old episodes of an adult child. And today we are piggybacking off of last week

and diving into steps 45, six, and seven of the ACA program. Highly recommend going and listening

to last week's episodes on steps one through three, if you have not, before listening to this.

If you're not into the 12 steps, don't worry, you're still going to get a lot out of this episode.

Four, five, six, and seven are the real meat and potatoes of the 12 steps, in my opinion.

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