Growing up in a home where there is addiction or relationship trauma puts a child at great risk for longterm, posttraumatic stress effects that adversely compromise adult relationships. Bestselling author, psychologist, and psychodramatist Tian Dayton examines this trauma through an exploration of the way the brain and body process frightening or painful emotions and experiences in childhood, and she shows how these traumas can become catalysts for unhealthy, selfmedicating behaviors including drug and alcohol abuse, food issues, and sex, gambling, and shopping addictions.Dr. Dayton's insightful analysis and thoughtful examination helps adult children of alcoholics understand how and why the pain they experienced in childhood plays out in their adult partnering and parenting and that they can learn how to restore health and happiness through their resilience.