How To Help Your Children Heal From the Trauma of Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

If you’re worried that your kids are suffering from the natural trauma that comes from loving someone suffering from addiction, my interview with Dr. Gowda (who has the most impressive resume and is a child psychologist) teaches us how we can help our children develop into healthy, well- adjusted and successful adults.

When children are raised in a household with addiction, there are certain things we, as mothers, need to be aware of. We're their biggest advocate. We need to learn how to fight for them.

Even if you have older children who have left the house, it’s never too late to learn the skills that will help your family navigate through addiction.

We owe it to our children to become educated about ways we can help them navigate through all their complex feelings of having a parent who drinks too much or suffers from drug addiction (substance use disorder).

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey guys, actually I shouldn't say hey guys because I have six children and a lot of them watch YouTube and for all you moms out there
0:28.3	you know what I'm talking about and they all say that every
0:34.0	youtubers starts their YouTube with like, hey guys.
0:38.0	And so as soon as I said it, I thought, oh my gosh, I sound like
0:42.0	the youtubers, my kids are watching and what is up? I thought, oh my gosh, I sound like the
0:42.5	youtubers my kids are watching.
0:44.2	And what is up with YouTube?
0:46.4	I mean, does anyone else experiencing
0:49.7	where their kids are watching and glued to their iPads watching other kids play games.
1:00.0	I was talking about this with another woman and she said her two-year-old
1:06.3	watches the iPad and watches a child or maybe it's even adult, I don't even know, which would be even more weird,
1:17.0	playing with Plato.
1:19.0	Like, instead of her sitting at the table playing with Plato, she watches another person playing with
1:24.3	Plato on YouTube.
1:26.0	This just feels bizarre to me.
1:27.8	Anyways, if you are new to this podcast, I promise you, we don't normally start out these podcasts like this, but I,
1:37.0	anyways, I went off on a tangent there. So welcome, welcome, welcome. I have a super special treat for you today. Actually it ties into children, so it's perfect.
1:48.0	Today we have a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in early childhood assessment.
1:56.9	Her name is Dr Gouda and you guys, her resume is ridiculous. She is so well educated and most importantly what I found
2:07.6	really impressive about Dr Gouda is that she has a real passion for working with children and families who have experienced trauma.
2:19.0	And those of us that love someone that's suffering from addiction, we have a lot of trauma in our life.
2:27.3	And I know if you have children of any age, most likely they have experienced trauma as well and we're going to talk a lot about what is trauma and we're going to give you
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