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The Dragon in Your House: How Families Learn to Tiptoe Around Addiction
This episode uses bibliotherapy and the children’s story There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon to explore how addiction can gradually reshape an entire family system. Addiction may involve alcohol, drugs, misuse of prescription medication, gambling, pornography or compulsive sexual behavior, workaholism, or other compulsive patterns that become increasingly difficult to control and continue despite meaningful consequences.
Through the story of a small dragon that grows while a family refuses to acknowledge it, this episode examines denial, secrecy, accommodation, damaged trust, changing family…
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