Earning My Parents' Love

Rarely is the story of adult children told from the child's point of view. Reading this story is listening to the heart and mind of our inner child. A childhood in dysfunction and especially violence and alcoholism is the experience of the unworthiness of the inner child. Defense mechanisms are formed in childhood. Those consequences continue throughout an adult-child's life and left untreated tend to worsen. Trauma separates the spirit of the inner child in the most profound way from itself. The author grew up in a home of alcoholism, violence, and dysfunction; yet, had no idea this experience created its own evolving trauma.