Healing means releasing yourself from the version of you that you created for survival.

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Yeah, yeah, what you're holding on to.

What you're holding on to, but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy my dear shit shows.

What up!

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea and I am an utter and complete shit show and damn proud of it. I am also an adult child and if you're wondering

what the hell that is, an adult child is somebody who grew up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional

family whose childhood experiences resulted in faulty programming.

So faulty beliefs and fears about themselves and the world, which result in certain characteristics and behaviors that we carry with us into adulthood.

So to name a few, people pleasing, approval seeking, perfectionism, an overdeveloped sense of responsibility,

fear of abandonment, fear of authority figures, unwarranted guilt, the inability to feel or express your emotions or certain emotions,

isolation, low self-esteem, highly judgmental of themselves and others.

And so if you're related to a few of those traits and you somehow

have stumbled upon this podcast, I'm just going to go out on a limb and say you're

probably an adult child, okay? You're probably an adult child. But here's the deal. There's no shame in that. These behaviors, these

characteristics that I just named. These are survival mechanisms that we took on

as children in order to survive.

And in fact, we were brilliant in doing so.

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