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Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Book That Started It All!
Now in an expanded edition, Dr. Janet Geringer Woititz, the mother of the ACoA movement, provides wisdom and information for all Adult Children of dysfunctional families. With this book, Dr. Woititz broke entirely new ground in our understanding what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. Here, she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who all share the same characteristics. After decades of working with ACoAs, she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Adult Children of Alcoholics has a breadth of wisdom to offer Adult Children of any age from any place.
Unwelcome Inheritance: Our Newest!
In Unwelcome Inheritance: Break Your Family’s Cycle of Addictive Behavior, Lisa Sue Woititz combines her own insights with the unpublished contributions of her late mother, Dr. Janet Woititz, the early leader in the Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) movement. The book uncovers how multiple generations of people affected by addiction continue to enable their children’s substance abuse, and how, without realizing it, they continue to model the addictive behaviors learned from their own parents. These ACOA pioneers then bring to light hidden behavior patterns—including impulsivity, misplaced loyalty, people pleasing, insecure parenting styles, and multiple compulsive and addictive behaviors—so that you can take a clear look at how you got to this point. Additional points of inquiry, illustrated by stories from the trenches of the ACOA Movement, help you explore what you can (and can’t) do to help your children, your children’s children and yourself lead healthy, balanced lives.
Struggle for Intimacy
Dr. Janet Geringer Woititz, known as “The Mother of the ACOA Recovery Movement”, sensitively addresses the barriers of trust and intimacy that children learn in an alcoholic family. She provides suggestions for building loving relationships with friends, partners, and spouses.
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The Complete ACoA Sourcebook
When they were first released in the 1980s, Janet Woititz’s groundbreaking works, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Struggle for Intimacy and The Self-Sabotage Syndrome, provided a new message of hope to adult children who had grown up in the shadow of alcoholic parents. Their message today is as profound and timeless as it was two decades ago.
Now, in this complete collection, readers will learn again the insight and healing power of Janet Wotitiz’s words. The Complete ACoA Sourcebook is a compilation of three of Dr. Woititz’s classic books, addressing head-on the symptoms of The Adult Children of Alcoholics syndrome and providing strategies for living a normal life as an adult. Readers will find help for themselves: at home, in intimate relationships and on the job. They will discover the reasons for the way they think, believe and feel about themselves; ACoAs often feel isolated, have difficulty in relationships, in the workplace and in feeling good about themselves.
Readers who are familiar with Woititz’s work will find wisdom once again in this classic collection. Those new to ACoA will gain fresh insight into their behavior patterns and find an avenue for self-love and healing. Noted ACoA expert Dr. Robert Ackerman, author of the best-selling Perfect Daughters and Silent Sons, provides a foreword and explains why Janet Woititz’s message will continue to help millions of readers for generations to come.
Marriage on the Rocks: How to Live with an Alcoholic
Dr. Woititz, in her first breakthrough book, addresses the spouses of alcoholics who feel overwhelmed and desperate in their marriages. Her focus is to show that the boundaries of isolationism and depression that living with an alcoholic brings does not necessarily mean one cannot eventually find piece of mind—whether or not the alcoholic continues drinking.
Marriage on the Rocks shows you the coping skills you deserve to have when alcoholism impacts your life.
Healthy Parenting: A Guide to Creating a Healthy Family for Adult Children
In every family, parenting is filled with challenges as well as joys, and making the choice to become a parent means choosing both. But if you come from a troubled or dysfunctional family where you were emotionally or physically abused, you may wonder: how can you overcome this painful legacy and create a stable, well-functioning home where your children feel safe, valued, and loved?
The good news is that dysfunctional patterns and troubled lives do not have to be handed down to the next generation. In Healthy Parenting, Janet G. Woititz draws upon her vast practical experience as a therapist, mother, and best-selling author to bring you the support and guidance you seek in creating a safe, nurturing environment for your children. Clear, direct, and practical, Healthy Parenting contrasts what happens in a healthy family with what happens in an unhealthy family, enabling you to identify the trouble spots in your own background and to overcome them in dealing with your own children. Whether you are just thinking about having children or have already become a parent, Janet G. Woititz offers the help and reassurance you need to make healthy parenting a part of your home.
Lifeskills for Adult Children
Imagine how you would feel if…
– You could stand up for yourself without losing your temper
– You could make a decision without second-guessing yourself
– You didn’t have that sense of worthlessness every time someone criticized you
– You could learn to say NO and stick to it
In Lifeskills For Adult Children, you can learn how to do all of these things and more. This book is designed specifically for Adult Children of Alcoholics, and teaches skills to make your complex adult life easier, while improving your sense of self-worth. Examples are provided to help clarify the lessons and exercises are given to help you practice your new skills.