Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

The content of the book wasn't absolutely new to me. I discovered the term “Emotional Abuse” when I was 22 and was shocked and relieved to finally have a vocabulary to describe the wide range of behaviours I had encountered. (found it here if you're interested - http://eqi.org/eabuse1.htm)

Words have power. They are greater than the sum of what they stand for - they can capture and convey a collection of experiences and at the same time inspire the understanding of something deeper, something far more profound, so that you can begin to heal (if required).

And by giving us this vocabulary, Lindsay is doing God's work (partly because, let's face it, the entity doesn't exist).

Can we even begin to understand something until we know what to call it?

If you can name it, you can tame it. So I guess now I'm just gonna spend the rest of my life taming it.

Thank you Lindsay. I hope something truly fantastic happens to you today.