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Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
- Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
In this important sequel to Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover, make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and break free from the coercive control of emotionally immature parents.
Growing up with emotionally immature (EI) parents can leave you feeling lonely and neglected. You may have trouble setting limits and expressing your feelings. And you may even be more susceptible to other emotionally immature people as you establish adult relationships. In addition, as your parents become older, they may still treat your emotions with mockery and contempt, be dismissive and discounting of your reality, and try to control and diminish your sense of emotional autonomy and freedom of thought. In short, EIs can be self-absorbed, inconsistent, and contradictory. So, how can you recover from their toxic behavior?
Drawing on the success of her popular self-help book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers yet another essential resource. With this follow-up guide, you’ll learn practical skills to help you recognize the signs of an EI, protect yourself against an emotional takeover, reconnect with your own emotions and needs, and gain emotional autonomy in all your relationships. This is a how-to book, with doable exercises and active tips and suggestions for what to say and do to increase emotional autonomy and self-awareness.
If you’re ready to stop putting your own needs last, clear the clutter of self-doubt, and move beyond the fear of judgment and punishment that’s been instilled in you by emotionally immature parents, this book will help you find the freedom to finally live your life your way.
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- Just Me
- 01-07-20
Interesting
Hits a wide range of people, goes under your skin and make you see how vulnerable you are
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- Annoyed
- 27-04-23
Amazing insightful read. Hugely accurate.
This book has been so helpful. My mum (well both parents) pulled out virtually all of the techniques detailed throughout the book. It has had a massive impact on my life. My mum passed away quite a while ago, but it’s a journey of processing it all (even more so now she’s no longer around adding to the experience). I think this book should be given out routinely in any therapy session where parent issues arises. I cannot rate it more highly.
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- Anon
- 23-12-23
Some important messages for people that have lived under subtle coercion
A necessary book on the path to independence and self determination. Not all relationships are reciprocal and mutually beneficial this book helps you navigate that
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- CW
- 13-09-21
eye opener
Loved it, now I need to listen again and go through each exercise in more detail.
Sad to say at my age I feel frightened to raise with my own parents step over boundaries but this book has given me the tools to deal with them in a mature and respectful way. Something I was never taught, as my feelings were "over reaction" and imagined.
I am in danger of becoming the EI parent but I'm here to stop the cycle
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- Chabite music
- 22-06-23
Wish I’d read this at 18
I have read so many self help books over the years. This one is the most practical and most empowering if you’ve always felt insecure and uncomfortable around your parents but never understood why.
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- Mr. Haider Shakiry
- 31-12-20
Very helpful
I wish the PDFs and exercises mentioned were included to download as I couldn’t find them anywhere else other than by buying a hard copy of this very helpful and therapeutic audio book
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- AdelicateGem
- 18-08-21
Some good information over all
Not what I expected but had some valuable information. Well read. I thought it would have some information about overcoming physical and emotional trauma from an EIP. This book is more about dealing with current EIP's (emotionally Immature Parents) on a verbal side. She had a lot of advice about building self-worth towards the last two hours of the book.
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- Evgenii
- 27-02-21
A good introduction to self improvement from emotionally immature parents
It turned out, I read this book after 50 (!!!) others .. it’s very helpful, like an introduction to possible childhood issues, however it’s very superficial. I’m not saying it’s bad or irrelevant, what I want to say - it must be 10 times bigger to really help and cover all issues, rather than quickly go through and give advices.
This book by its own won’t resolve issues. Why? I had to read 2-5 books on each topic , like: boundaries and limits, assertiveness, narcissistic and bordeline abuse, radical honesty, DBT, self esteem workbooks, critical voice and its affect, and more.
What I’m trying to say, the book is good, can provide a path for further work, allow to acknowledge the range of individual issues, and I wish I began with it, rather than finish the process)) but each topic, e.g. like critical voice- noticing, observing, journaling, analyzing and eliminating affects- needs weeks of works, I used three books for that. So, roughly 10 minutes , devoted to this topic in the book- will just touch the topic and give an idea 💡 there’s an issue, but be prepared to further explore the topic and for most people I would suggest working with a specialist to avoid overwhelming.
Like the second book of the author, words narcissism and bordelines weren’t pronounced, but it’s about them in anyway, these are affects of these pathologis in one way or another. That means, that affects on mental health of their victims shouldn’t be underestimated and one book won’t be able to resolve anything, and specialists will be needed in most cases
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- Saskia
- 17-10-21
Useful skills you can implement immediately
A calmly read, clear book. All points she makes are illustrated with an example. I found this helpful to relate to and understand which behaviours are inappropriate. Includes lists and exercises that can help you clarify things for yourself, but aren't necessary to complete to follow the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-09-23
Genuinely helpful and supportive
Recommend to anyone looking for greater inner strength in the face of engulfing or abusive parental relationships
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