My husband and I both come from families with addiction and we don't drink at all but our teenage son is starting to experiment and we're both spiraling with panic.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parents' traumatic experiences with addiction create disproportionate fear responses to their teenager's developmentally normal risk-taking behavior.
“Where Are You with Trauma-informed parenting?”
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