Self-Help, Emotions, Psychology & Counseling, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Drug Dependency, Substance Abuse 

Do you use substances or get lost in compulsive behaviors to regulate your mood? Do you experience prolonged states of depression or anxiety? Are you too often pent up with anger? Perhaps you reach for something sweet or a couple of drinks or cigarettes after a difficult day to unwind. If these self-defeating habits sound familiar, Emotional Sobriety will shed light on why and how you become vulnerable to coping mechanisms that threaten health and inhabit resiliency-and how to stop them.
“When we manage stress in self-destructive ways, it’s a sure sign that we lack emotional sobriety, living on the edge rather than in emotional balance.” Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Through eye-opening research on the physiology of emotions, case studies, and her own personal journey, Dr. Dayton investigates emotional sobriety as a mind/body phenomenon dependent on balancing both our thinking mind and our limbic system, the part of the brain where we process our emotions and cope with our stressors. Studies show that repeated painful experiences or “relationship trauma” disregulate the limbic system, thus inhibiting our ability to naturally process our emotions and control our reactions to stress. When we are in this state of imbalance, it is all too often that we reach for alternate, sometimes self- destructive “mood changers,” including drugs or excessive amounts of alcohol, food, or spending.
After reading Emotional Sobriety, you will never look at your symptoms of depression, anxiety, rage and desire to self- medicate in the same way again. Through Dr. Dayton’s wisdom and methods, you will finally be able to find relief from relationship trauma and discover balance, resilience, and freedom from self-destructive living.