Cross Addicted: Breaking Free From Family Trauma and Addiction

Paula was broken, traumatized, and bound by many addictions, but today she is free. And that is God’s desire for you, too! Paula Jauch’s life was controlled by trauma and addiction. Born into neglect and addiction, she inherited self-destructive patterns and emotional prisons she could not escape. She experimented with crack at age thirteen, became pregnant at fifteen, was initiated into a Hispanic gang, and bore her second child by the time she was eighteen. Starved for acceptance and worth, she began cutting her body, and developed a near-fatal eating disorder for twenty years. Cross Addicted follows Paula’s raw, stumbling journey toward freedom. You will find renewed hope and practical steps of recovery . •Recognize that there is nothing wrong with you. Learn how to forgive yourself and others. Understand addiction and trauma and the healing process through recovery. Find freedom by understanding what Jesus did on the cross.”