From Coping to Healing: Adoptee Addictions and the Path to Wholeness

About this episode

This episode discusses how coping mechanisms and addictions develop as survival strategies for adoptees dealing with loss and identity issues.

In this heartfelt and honest episode of The Empowered Adoptee Podcast, we explore how coping mechanisms and addictions often develop as survival strategies for adoptees navigating loss, identity, and attachment wounds. Through personal stories and open conversation, we talk about how emotional and physical addictions can take root from people-pleasing and perfectionism to substance use, workaholism, or emotional avoidance and how these patterns were once necessary forms of protection. Togethe...

People in this episode

Hosts: Claire Magenheimer, Laurie Vogler

Topics covered

• adoptee addictions
• coping mechanisms
• emotional healing
• identity
• attachment wounds
• personal stories

Keywords

• adoptee
• addictions
• coping mechanisms
• healing
• identity
• attachment
• personal stories

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