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Getting Back Up: Overcoming Alcoholic Parenting Many Failed Marriages and A Journey Through Cancer And Beyond
Getting Back Up is a memoir about how alcoholism can twist and turn its way through generations of a family causing turmoil, trauma and neglect.
My childhood wounds transformed into my young adulthood, which affected my ability to make healthy life choices.
I discover that healing begins not when we come across the truth but when we have the courage to face up to it.
I take you along with me through my failed marriages, hardships and my experience with cancer.
When I look back, I recognize a reoccurring pattern ending up in marriages that had the same outcome of failure due to my unhealthy choices of a partner.
My mission then becomes to break the cycle of generational trauma which includes sharing the harsh reality of the truth with my grown children.
My childhood wounds transformed into my young adulthood, which affected my ability to make healthy life choices.
I discover that healing begins not when we come across the truth but when we have the courage to face up to it.
I take you along with me through my failed marriages, hardships and my experience with cancer.
When I look back, I recognize a reoccurring pattern ending up in marriages that had the same outcome of failure due to my unhealthy choices of a partner.
My mission then becomes to break the cycle of generational trauma which includes sharing the harsh reality of the truth with my grown children.
237 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2025
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