As parents in recovery, we have the unique opportunity to end the cycle of trauma for generations to come. Recovery for us has always meant more than reaching physical sobriety alone, more than mental stability on its face. Recovery for us also means healing our inner childhood wounds and freeing ourselves of false beliefs that once harmed us.

With sobriety and stability we GET learn how to reparent ourselves. Reparenting is the process of creating a sense of "home within" one's own heart for your inner-child. It is learning how to give your inner child the nurturing, support, and emotional safety that may have been lacking as a child, healing past wounds, addressing unmet needs, and developing a stronger, more balanced sense of self in the present. This in turn leads to stronger, healthier, and healed family relationships across the board.

One person's trauma and/or addiction recovery incredibly opens the door to manifesting generations of healing throughout the entire family.

In this episode, Nadia and Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, Author of "Re-Building Relationships in Recovery," share their experience, strength, and hope as mother's empowering their recovery and relationships with their children and elderly parent through inner child healing, as well as the current challenges and blessings of heart-centered parenting.

BOOKS:

Home is Within You, A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption

Rebuilding Relationships in Recovery, How to Connect With Family and Friends After Active Alcoholism/Addiction

JANICE JOHNSON DOWD

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