The Meadows 50th Anniversary Senior Fellow Series | Growing Up with Addiction: How Trauma Becomes an Inheritance—and How We Can Heal It
The Meadows 50th Anniversary Senior Fellow Series | Growing Up with Addiction: How Trauma Becomes an Inheritance—and How We Can Heal It
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Description
Children raised in homes marked by unpredictability, emotional inconsistency, secrecy, neglect, or parentification do not simply witness addiction—they organize themselves around it, they adapt themselves to the needs of their parents and the family all too often discounting their own needs.. They may become hypervigilant, overly responsible, emotionally shut down, perfectionistic, people pleasing, or chronically self doubting. They also develop unusual strengths from meeting the challenges of their young lives; they can be remarkable ingenious, self-reliant, independent and wickedly funny!
Through compelling film clips, clinical stories, and experiential demonstrations, participants will see how trauma reveals itself in posture, tone of voice, movement, proximity, role behavior, and relationship patterns. Dr. Dayton will demonstrate how Relational Trauma Repair (RTR®) interventions—including Floor Checks®, Social Atoms, Attachment Trauma Timelines®, and psychodramatic role methods—help clients separate past from present, restore co regulation, strengthen secure attachment, and reclaim spontaneity, resilience, and authentic connection. Drawing from her new book "Growing Up with Addiction", decades of clinical practice, attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and contemporary trauma research, Dr. Tian Dayton explores how the legacy of addiction lives in the body, the nervous system, and our closest relationships and how we can learn to use triggers as teachers.
Educational Goal
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Describe how growing up with addiction influences nervous system development, attachment patterns, emotional regulation, and relational templates across the lifespan.
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Explain two reasons why the legacy of addiction is encoded primarily in implicit relational and somatic memory rather than explicit narrative memory, and how this shapes adult functioning.
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Recognize the characteristic survival adaptations of Adult Children of Addiction—including hypervigilance, parentification, people pleasing, emotional numbing, perfectionism, and difficulty with trust—and explain their adaptive origins.
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Describe three neurobiological foundations that support Relational Trauma Repair (RTR®), including Polyvagal Theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and co-regulation.
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Demonstrate how experiential interventions such as Floor Checks®, Social Atoms, and Attachment Trauma Timelines® help differentiate past from present while promoting integration and emotional regulation.
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Integrate at least two Relational Trauma Repair (RTR®) interventions into trauma informed clinical, educational, or recovery settings to foster relational healing and secure attachment.
Target Audience
- Addiction Professional
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Nurse
- Physician
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
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Financially Sponsored By
- The Meadows