Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met at your expense."-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met at your expense."-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a result, they may not recognize abusive behavior in their adult relationships."-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a result, they may not recognize abusive behavior in their adult relationships."-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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1. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
By: Mark Wolynn
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more
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2. Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
By: Jonice Webb , Christine Musello
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Running on Emptyis the first self-help book about Emotional Neglect: an invisible force from your c… read more
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3. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
By: Emily Nagoski
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more
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"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
4. Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
By: Karyl McBride
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-in… read more
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5. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
By: Pete Walker
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced… read more
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6. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
4.39
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering… read more
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"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
7. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love
By: Amir Levine , None
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levi… read more
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8. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
By: None
4.27
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold n… read more
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9. What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
By: Bruce D. Perry
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powe… read more
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10. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.28
Format: 282 pages, ebook
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. … read more
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"We don't naturally fall into perfect relationship; we create them"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
"Assume that people know only what you tell them, honor only what you request, and can't read your mind."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
11. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
12. How to Keep House While Drowning
By: K.C. Davis
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more
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"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
13. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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14. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
By: Nicole LePera
4.14
Format: 320 pages, ebook
As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more
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15. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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16. Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
By: Nedra Glover Tawwab
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a … read more
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"Visit the past, but don't stay there."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"You can love your parents and be upset about how they raised you."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"Critical thinking is a threat to unhealthy systems, and questions make people think."-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
"When you don't want to participate in gossiping: "I’d like to hear more about what’s happening with you"-Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
17. Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut
By: Sherrie Campbell
4.34
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and tow… read more
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18. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
By: Melody Beattie
4.13
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more
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"We work it out, or live it out."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
19. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
20. How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
By: Nicole LePera
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Holistic Psychologist and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to… read more
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21. Adult Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers: Quiet the Critical Voice in Your Head, Heal Self-Doubt, and Live the Life You Deserve
By: Stephanie M. Kriesberg
3.98
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Were you raised by a narcissist? This essential guide will show you how to stop feeling invisible, … read more
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