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Sarah Fellows: Grieving a parent lost to addiction

YouTube Description 🎵 Watch Sarah Fellows’ “Glimpses of You” music video:    • Glimpses of You - Grieving the loss of a p...   In this powerful and deeply honest episode of Children of Alcoholics, Sarah and Amy are joined by Sarah Fellows – a mum of three, physiotherapist, somatic therapist and adult child of an alcoholic mother. Sarah shares her experience of growing up with a mum who struggled with alcohol addiction, the complex and non-linear grief that followed her death, and what it means to grieve not only the parent you lost, but the parent you never truly had. This conversation explores life as an adult child of an alcoholic, including: Complex grief after a parent dies from addiction Guilt, anger, relief and shame Emotional neglect and hypervigilance Trauma stored in the body Nervous system regulation and somatic therapy Parenting after addiction People-pleasing, responsibility and the need to be needed Breaking generational cycles Sarah also shares the story behind Glimpses of You – a song she wrote in the depths of grief after her mum’s death, later gifted to Nacoa, and now resonating with adult children of alcoholics around the world. This episode is raw, compassionate and validating. If you grew up with a parent who drank too much, you are not alone. Content warning: This episode contains discussion of parental addiction, death, trauma, grief and emotional neglect. 🔗 Support resources (including Nacoa) are linked below. Chapters 00:00 – Welcome & introduction 01:15 – Meeting Sarah Fellows 02:30 – Finding Nacoa and shared understanding 03:45 – Complex grief and losing the parent you wanted 05:00 – Guilt, relief and shame after death 06:45 – Emotional shutdown and survival strategies 08:30 – Trauma responses and the body remembering 10:20 – Somatic therapy & nervous system regulation 13:05 – Growing up with an alcoholic mother 15:50 – Emotional neglect and hypervigilance 18:45 – People-pleasing and needing to be needed 21:00 – Parenting after addiction 23:15 – Anger, compassion and breaking cycles 25:00 – Seeking help and missed opportunities 27:30 – Gaslighting and validation 30:00 – Carrying responsibility and guilt 33:00 – Writing the poem behind Glimpses of You 37:40 – Sharing the song and gifting it to Nacoa 40:20 – Love, loss and compassion 44:45 – First Christmas after loss 48:50 – Choosing a different story 50:30 – Final reflections Hashtags #ChildrenOfAlcoholics #AdultChildrenOfAlcoholics #ACOA #AddictionRecovery #ParentalAddiction #ComplexGrief #TraumaHealing #SomaticTherapy #NervousSystemRegulation #BreakingGenerationalTrauma #HealingJourney #GriefSupport #RecoveryCommunity #MentalHealthAwareness #Nacoa