This week write your story of hurt, betrayal, and pain. Go very slow. Make a timeline of your life. Put on the timeline your dinner table when you were 10, take note of eras of anxiety, grief, and trauma. You will immediately discover the correlation of addictive destructive behavior with the events of anxiety, grief, and trauma. There are 3 kinds of truthful answers to give. Truthful answers, more truthful answers and brutally true answers. A truthful answer is like, “Yes I have a story of hurt and pain.” A more truthful answer is “My story of hurt and pain involves a family history of addiction and affairs.” A brutally true answer articulates your own personal pain in detail. Go ahead. Start. Read “Healing Survivors of Trauma” in The Treasure to touch the core of your story.