Growing Up with Addiction
How Adult Children of Addicts Can Heal Family Trauma, C-PTSD, and Codependency
Book • 2026
Tian Dayton's book provides a compassionate, clinically informed roadmap for adult children of addicts to identify and heal relational wounds from childhood.
Drawing on decades of clinical experience, the author explores how family unpredictability and role-reversal shape attachment and survival patterns.
The book offers practical strategies for recovery, boundary-setting, and repairing relationships, including work on grief and individuation.
It situates addiction as a relational and physiological process and gives readers tools to separate the person from the disease.
Dayton integrates therapeutic insights and exercises to support long-term healing and resilience.
Drawing on decades of clinical experience, the author explores how family unpredictability and role-reversal shape attachment and survival patterns.
The book offers practical strategies for recovery, boundary-setting, and repairing relationships, including work on grief and individuation.
It situates addiction as a relational and physiological process and gives readers tools to separate the person from the disease.
Dayton integrates therapeutic insights and exercises to support long-term healing and resilience.
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