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It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol

It's About Healing Complex PTSD

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Your Struggle With Food, Weight, Drugs or Alcohol Is Not Your Fault,
It's A Normal Response To Surviving An Abnormal Childhood.

Even though Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life - behind closed doors, she still struggled and wondered...

  • Why she had so few close friends and had difficulty finding a fulfilling, romantic relationship.
  • Why she still struggled with food, sleep, & caffeine.
  • Why she couldn't find the flow and passion she longed for in her career.
  • Why, even though she was in long-term recovery with food and substances and had maintained a 160lb weight loss for several decades, she felt the need to hide these parts of her past from others.
  • Finally, in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving these, and her past addictions to food, drugs, and alcohol was a condition known as Complex PTSD (CPTSD), a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home.

Join Mary as she experiences one mind-blowing revelation after another as she learns that CPTSD was operating behind the scenes sabotaging her weight, addiction recovery, relationships, career, and health, and learn what she did to heal.

You'll Learn: You're not alone; you're not bad or defective; it's not your fault, your symptoms are normal, and you can heal with a proven, step-by-step CPTSD workbook that compassionately guides you in healing from common CPTSD symptoms such as difficulty with close relationships, shame, guilt, anxiety, depression, addiction, and feeling defective and unworthy of love and belonging.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Mary Giuliani (P)2022 Mary Giuliani
Psychology & Mental Health Addiction & Recovery Substance abuse Mental Health Psychology Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Health
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If you’ve ever wondered why someone can’t “just stop,” PLEASE READ THIS BOOK. It’s well-researched, authentic, and the author’s personal story makes the message hit even deeper. Too often, addiction gets framed as willpower or moral weakness, when really it’s about the pain underneath.

I like to explain PTSD as one big wound, while C-PTSD is like a thousand paper cuts. Those little “t” traumas pile up and are often brushed off with comments like, “it wasn’t that bad.” Mary does a great job of showing how those overlooked experiences shape us.

As I read Mary's book, I kept coming back to the image of someone being swept down a raging river (childhood trauma). To survive, you grab a log (the addiction, like alcohol, food, or something else). Instead of shaming someone for holding on to the log to survive, we need to understand why they grabbed it in the first place and support them in letting go when it finally feels safe to swim to shore.

Highly recommend for anyone healing from trauma and addiction, or walking alongside someone who is.

FINALLY! A Book That Understands Addiction!

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I couldn’t put this book down once I started and loved all of it. So deep, honest, and healing to hear about someone that I could relate to, even if it wasn’t all the same details as my experience. The journey towards recovery was wonderful and it is a great book !! Five stars.

Introduction to ptsd and addictions was super helpful

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