This week, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren & Mathew Portell will speak with author Mary Giuliani. We will discuss her new book It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD. The book launches on February 21st, 2023. Even though Mary was in long-term recovery with food, severe obesity, drugs, and alcohol and had what most people would consider a successful life— behind closed doors, she still struggled and wondered… Why she had so few close friends and had difficulty finding a fulfilling, romantic relationship? Why she still struggled with food, sleep, and caffeine? Why she couldn't find the flow and passion she longed for in her career? Why, even though she was in long-term recovery with food and substances and had maintained a healthy weight for several decades, she felt the need to hide these parts of her past from others?Finally, in mid-life, she discovered the root cause driving these, and her past struggles with food, obesity, and substances was a condition known as Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)—a more severe form of PTSD that developed from her being raised in a chaotic alcoholic home. This discovery sent Mary on a five-year journey where she researched leading experts in the fields of C-PTSD, neuroscience, developmental psychology, adverse childhood experiences, and addiction medicine to find the most effective treatments for optimal healing.