Some parents were more emotionally involved with a compulsion or addiction than with their family. For children of addicts or alcoholics the effects of a dysfunctional home can linger and characterize relationships even now years later. We may carry such abuse or abandonment into adulthood as an aversion to intimacy a cycle of codependency or constant self-judgment. These are our inheritances. Recovery advocates Earnie Larsen and Carol Larsen Hegarty share their wisdom in daily meditations that help you reframe your relationships with both the world and yourself. Days of Healing Days of Joy guides adult children toward a place of trust of forgiveness slowly and surely. Although years have passed the ability to find peace and strength has not.