Raised
in a Bottle:
FREE
yourself from a childhood with alcoholism
by
Kristina Hermann
Genre:
Nonfiction, Self-Help
My Review...
This is a self-help book and it’s written by an
author who grew up or “made it” through a life of one alcoholic parent or
another. But there’s another thing about this book. It’s readable. It isn’t dry
or academic. It isn’t just a book of pages with lines to fill in. It’s a story
too. A story that I think way too many people can identify with.
The book does have exercises you can work through and while I think they could be helpful, I felt the most important aspect of the book was the realization that many other people are experiencing the same things. A positive but honest book .
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FREE
yourself from a childhood with alcoholism
Growing
up in a family with alcohol abuse can leave you significantly scarred
as an adult.
The
addiction robbed you of a caring, nurturing, secure and playful
childhood, forcing you to become an adult too early.
A
lack of attention and compassion stifled your ability to grow into a
whole person.
As
an adult, you might experience personal and professional problems
related to feelings of abandonment or loneliness, relationship
problems, low self-esteem, unhealthy coping strategies, and lack of
clear boundaries.
If
you have felt traumatized, anxious, and depressed throughout your
life, this is the book for you.
Through
in-depth chapters and exercises, you will:
·
Understand how families are shaped by alcohol addiction
·
Gain insight into how trauma affects your body and your mind
·
Learn how to build your self-esteem and become aware of your own
feelings
·
How to identify unhealthy patterns and relationships and break free
of them
·
Reshape your thoughts and beliefs about yourself and your future
This
book offers extensive insight into the dynamics and consequences of
growing up with addiction.
It
provides the help and compassion that addiction stole from you when
you were a child. In short, Raised in a Bottle offers
new hope for reclaiming your own life.
Kristina
Hermann is a psychotherapist and author with a clinic in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
She
has worked with families afflicted by alcohol abuse since 2000 and
has written extensively about adult children of alcoholics.
In
2015 she published a self-help book in Danish: Du er ikke alene: en
opvækst med alkoholproblemer ("You are not alone: An upbringing
shaped by alcohol problems"), now in its third printing. Raised
in a Bottle: A Workbook for Adult Children of Alcoholics (in
progress) is her first book in English.
She
received her Master in Psychology from the University of Aarhus,
Denmark in 2012. In addition to her work as a psychotherapist, she
also teaches seminars, conducts workshops, and is a supervisor of the
work of other therapists.
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