When the Drinking and Drug Use Stops but the Dysfunction Remains Complete Guide and Companion Workbook Set (Books 1 & 2) by Josh Grant

When the Drinking and Drug Use Stops but the Dysfunction Remains
Complete Guide and Companion Workbook Set

The drinking stopped. The drug use ended. But the anxiety, guilt, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, family conflict, and unhealthy relationship patterns remained.

This two-book healing set is designed for adults raised in families affected by alcoholism, drug addiction, emotional immaturity, narcissistic behavior, chronic conflict, or other forms of dysfunction. Together, the guide and companion workbook help readers understand how childhood experiences continue to affect adult emotions, relationships, boundaries, and self-worth—and take practical steps toward lasting change.

The main book provides a compassionate, research-informed exploration of family trauma, attachment styles, dysfunctional family roles, codependency, parentification, toxic guilt, shame, and the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn trauma responses. Readers learn why sobriety alone does not necessarily heal a family and how survival patterns developed during childhood can continue long after the substance use ends.

The companion workbook turns that understanding into action through 40 structured exercises, assessments, journaling prompts, boundary worksheets, and personal recovery tools.

Together, the books address:

• The hidden family rules: Don’t Talk, Don’t Trust, Don’t Feel
• The Hero, Scapegoat, Lost Child, Mascot, and Caretaker roles
• Anxiety, hypervigilance, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
• Codependency, parentification, toxic guilt, and shame
• Attachment patterns and unhealthy adult relationships
• Emotional manipulation, narcissistic family dynamics, and enabling
• Setting healthy boundaries without guilt
• Planning difficult conversations and low-contact relationships
• Breaking generational cycles of addiction, trauma, and dysfunction
• Creating a 90-day growth plan and long-term healing roadmap

Unlike traditional Adult Children of Alcoholics resources, this modern set also examines social media stress, manipulative family group texts, cyberstalking, location sharing, privacy violations, blocking and restricting, and other technology-enabled boundary violations.

Ideal for independent reflection, support groups, or use alongside a qualified counselor, this complete guide-and-workbook set helps readers move from understanding what happened to deciding what happens next.

Your childhood does not have to define your future.

The dysfunction may not have started with you, but it can end with you.