Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
How to Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy and Find Personal Happiness
2019 • 224 pages
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How to Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy and Find Personal Happiness
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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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I found this even better than the first book - it could stand alone as it has the essential info about EI parents and other EI people, although anyone who is really struggling with these relationships will want both books. I thought the advice was very clear and practical. Time will tell whether it works in my interactions with EI people, but I'm looking forward to trying. I especially appreciated the detailed explanation of how EI people are hostile to your inner world, and how to reclaim it. It's been hard for me to feel I have permission just to have my own thoughts around EI people, but now I understand why, I know it's important to resist the takeover, and I will go into our encounters forearmed.
