Understanding Addiction and Childhood Trauma
episode summary
Discover how childhood trauma can lead to addictions and unhealthy lifestyle habits in adulthood, and how to heal your addicted inner child.
If you or someone you know is suffering from addiction to an unhealthy lifestyle habit, such as overeating, drug-taking, alcohol abuse, or gambling, this teaching is for you.
We dig deep to uncover the origin of these addictions (often found in childhood), and you’ll learn how your mind and inner child is involved in keeping these addictions alive today.
In this episode you’ll gain a deeper understanding of what drives your behaviour so you can break your addiction cycle once and for all.
- The origin of addictive behaviours: addiction as a result of childhood trauma and coping mechanisms
- Why the inner child can be responsible for addictive behaviour in adulthood.
- How to overcome addictive behaviour through inner child work.
extra resources
- How to Understand Your Emotions
- Childhood Trauma Recovery Using Inner Child Healing
- Abandonment Issues and Inner Child Healing
- Inner Child Healing For Love Addiction, Codependency and Codependent Relationships
- How to Control Emotional Eating Using Inner Child Work
- Reparenting Your Inner Child (Part 1) & (Part 2)
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