You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their behaviors. My name is

Andrea and this is a little child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.

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

What's you holding on to,

but just let it all go.

What's making you slow now? 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 show,

shoo-shoo-shoo!

How are we doing?

For any new listeners, my name is Andrea,

and here's my deal.

I grew up in an alcohol household. I became an alcoholic myself.

I got sober at the age of 19.

And then in 2018 with nine years of sobriety and nine years of toxic romantic relationships

I hit an emotional bottom that was even more painful than the bottom that

brought me into sobriety.

And that pain turned out to be the biggest damn blessing of my entire life

because it was through that pain that I came to terms

with the true impact that my child had had on me and that I was an adult child.

And that was such a relief because for years I was convinced that I was inherently flawed and

unfixable when the fact was that I was inherently flawed and unfixable,

when the fact was that I was just an adult child.

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