Tian Dayton: If You Grew Up with Addicts, Healing Is a Discipline
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Are the patterns you formed surviving a chaotic childhood still running your life today? Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Tian Dayton—trauma expert, psychodramatist, and author of Growing Up with Addiction—about how addiction doesn't just happen to one person, it happens to the whole family, and why healing the wounds it leaves behind requires more than insight. It requires discipline.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sounds True Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.4 | You know, it's not a disease that happens to one person. |
| 0:15.4 | It's a disease that happens to everyone. |
| 0:18.5 | And I adored my father. |
| 0:20.2 | So his falling apart was a very sad thing for me. And I kept |
| 0:29.6 | trying to put him back together again. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Dr. Tian Dayton, a hugely accomplished person. |
| 0:42.3 | She's an award-winning scholar and an expert on the healing of trauma, the practice of psychodrama, and facilitating healing for adult children of alcoholics. |
| 0:55.1 | She has a PhD in clinical psychology and is a senior fellow at the Meadows. |
| 1:01.7 | She also has developed an innovative approach for helping people work through trauma. |
| 1:07.3 | It's called RTR relational trauma repair, And we're going to learn more about that. |
| 1:14.8 | Additionally, Dr. Tian Dayton is the author of 15 books, including a new book from Sounds True. It's called |
| 1:24.1 | Growing Up with Addiction, How Adult Children of Addicts can heal family trauma, complex PTSD, and codependency. |
| 1:36.2 | Friends, stay with us. |
| 1:49.7 | We're living through a time that some people, |
| 1:54.0 | including one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time, |
| 1:59.4 | Eckhart Tolle, describe as a collective dark night of the soul. |
| 2:00.8 | It's a time of uncertainty, turmoil, |
| 2:04.6 | and for many a collapse of meaning. |
| 2:09.1 | According to Eckart, this time is not a mistake. |
| 2:13.1 | It's a doorway. |
| 2:23.0 | Helping us make our way through in response to the specific needs of our time, |
| 2:30.2 | Eckhart Tolley has created a new learning program, from suffering to spiritual awakening, |
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