“From Dysfunction to Resilience” [Serialized Installments]

— Front Matter
— Prologue
— Introduction to Dysfunction
— Chapter 1: Codependency as a Product of Dysfunctional Families
— Chapter 2: The Big 5 Shared Symptoms of Principals and Family Members
— Chapter 3: Recovery
— Chapter 4: Recap
— Chapter 5: Readers’ Questions

(2025) Your dysfunctional childhood may have changed your brain and body chemistry.

The chronic stress of growing up with a rageaholic, cruel, or deceitful parent — or experiencing overt abandonment — can affect long-term biological functioning. But we can address childhood stress and learn to reconcile the past with the present while building a more resilient future.

This is a story about nuclear and extended family relationships: the good, bad, and dysfunctional. Why are certain members manipulative, malicious, and even sociopathic, often attempting to split family? Why do others exhibit integrity and treat members with love and respect? Still others are caught between character and weakness, struggling with control exerted by the manipulative. All of us are affected by our childhood. Many emerge well adjusted. Some emerge fearful, angry, and lacking self-worth, in varying degrees of recovery. But everyone can travel the continuous road of self-improvement, starting from right now.■

[Tom Ersin has been a full-time health and well-being writer/editor since 2010 and holds degrees in communications and counseling. He’s a former Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) and mental health professional with outpatient and inpatient experience in the fields of clinical therapy and chemical dependency treatment. And he has a (good) dog named Bob Barker.] Click here to purchase book. Please leave a rating.