{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Alcohol Minimalist: Mindful Drinking & Behavior Change","title":"Being an Adult Child of an Alcoholic & Emotional Immaturity","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1662,"description":"This week's episode is the first dive into Molly's life as an adult child of an alcoholic. She shares information she learned while researching the Breaking the Bottle Legacy book. Her research included conversations with other adult children of alcoholics and the NY Times bestseller,  Adult Children of Alcoholics\nFrom the book, Molly shares some of the thirteen characteristics outlined by Dr. Woititz that have been most prevalaent in her own life.  She also shares information from Dr. Woititz regarding characteristics of alcoholics that are oftened taught to children and become learned behaviors for adult children of alcoholics.\nOne of the common causes for addiction is emotional immaturity and Molly dives deeper into how this was modeled for her by her own mother and lead to her own dysfunctional habit with alcohol. \nBecoming aware of the where of the characteristics of emotional immaturity can help you uncover your own thinking fueling habits that don't serve you.  Understanding the past allows you to hold it in a different way now and it only exists in how you think about it today. \nFrom Adult Children of Alcoholics, Janet Woititz, 1983, 1990.\n Adult children of alcoholics guess at what normal behavior is.\nAdult children of alcoholics have difficulty following a project through from beginning to end. 3. Adult children of alcoholics lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth.\nAdult children of alcoholics judge themselves without mercy.\nAdult children of alcoholics have difficulty having fun.\nAdult children of alcoholics take themselves very seriously.\nAdult children of alcoholics have difficulty with intimate relationships.\nAdult children of alcoholics over-react to changes over which they have no control.\nAdult children of alcoholics constantly seek approval and affirmation.\nAdult children of alcoholics usually feel that they are different from other people.\nAdult children of alcoholics are super responsible or super irresponsible.\nAdult children of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zu3PtA3XzNKb2qSH95OKvfAaoixqds182Hao41kpkws/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZjY5/NjVmY2Y2MGQ0NmMx/NGNiMzdiZGY0OTMz/OWQzMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}