Adult survivors of emotionally abusive parents : how to heal, cultivate emotional resilience & build the life & love you deserve
by Campbell, Sherrie (Author)
Summary
"If you grew up with a parent who was self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, you may still struggle with feelings of anger, sadness, fear, or hopelessness as an adult. You may avoid emotional intimacy with others for fear of being hurt or abandoned. And you may even feel like the abuse... Full description
- The critical importance of parents
- The search for any feeling of home
- Love cannot be forced
- Transforming maladaptive guilt
- Untwisting their demands for respect
- Overcome your self-neglect
- What love based in respect feels like
- Respecting yourself
- Your role in the family system
- Survive the smear campaign
- When the scapegoat fights back
- Start choosing you
- Recovering a source of power
- Healing is a verb
- Your happiness possibility
- Make love your default emotion.