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Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents

How to Heal, Cultivate Emotional Resilience, and Build the Life and Love You Deserve

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Heal the pain of growing up with emotionally abusive parents, and take the first steps toward the life—and the love—you deserve.

Few things in the world have a more profound effect on your life than the parents who raised you. When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. And you may even feel like it was somehow all your fault. But it was not your fault, and there are tools you can use to heal the trauma caused by your childhood.

From the author of the self-help hit Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, this compassionate guide will help you gain a greater understanding of what happened in your past; transform deep pain into emotional resilience; and build the loving, meaningful relationship with yourself that you deserve. You'll also learn to set boundaries with others, assert your needs, and overcome emotional avoidance to develop warm, loving relationships with others.

Author Sherrie Campbell offers powerful skills drawn from a range of evidence-based treatments, including mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), self-compassion, lived experience, and body-based practices to help you heal from the past and reconnect with your authentic self.

A happy and healthy life is not a life without struggle—it is a journey full of meaningful lessons. Let this book guide you on the path to healing, wholeness, and self-discovery.

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    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2024

      Campbell (Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members) is a licensed psychologist with over two decades of clinical training experience providing counseling and psychotherapy to residents of Orange County, CA. In this book she uses what she calls "moments of truth" to explain how abusive parenting happens, addressing the societal norms that support or even ignore this behavior. The first moment of truth that she tackles is that not all parents are good parents. She notes that children have no choice in who their parents are and can be trapped in relationships where love is forced and not given. Campbell describes the characteristics of both healthy parents and abusive parents. She also explains specific types of abuse that children are exposed to and the lifelong emotional impacts these children experience as they age and become adults. Some of these emotional debts are depression, anxiety, apathy, and failure to thrive. She encourages adults to love themselves by developing a practice of healing that includes setting boundaries, affirmation statements, breathing, and getting necessary professional support. VERDICT This title is relevant, highly necessary, healing, liberating, and transformative.--Laura Ellis

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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