If it hurts too much to hold on, then it's time to let go.

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

Yeah, yeah, yeah, 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 an old child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Ahoy, my dear, chichos, situation!

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea, and I'm an old child,

and I learned this in 2018. So in 2018 with nine years of sobriety I

hit an emotional bottom that was

dating to dating to the bottom that brought me into sobriety. And the precursor to this bottom was dating

two alcoholics named Brian back to back.

If you're not familiar with the first episode, if you've not heard

the first episode, stop what you're doing and just go listen to that shit now. It's required

listening. But so it was through this bottom, this pain that I came to terms with the true impact that my childhood had on me.

Now I had

a always known that my childhood was less than ideal, alcoholic mom, emotionally unavailable dad,

but I was completely oblivious to the true damage

that my childhood had on me.

I had no idea that what I had endured was trauma

and I had no idea that what I had been experiencing and dating was complex PTSD and there are a ton of people out there who once

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