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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent's behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. In this...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon (@mindfulmft, +631K followers) comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin-the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves,and the world around us.
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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From the author of the self-help hit Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, this essential guide offers daily tips and tools to help readers heal the invisible wounds caused by growing up with immature parents. Readers will learn how to nurture self-discovery, trust their emotions, and stop putting others' needs ahead of their own, so they can improve their relationships and build confidence in handling life's challenges.
4) I refuse
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter between two childhood friends, including one who escaped an abusive father, reveals how their fortunes have reversed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A powerful, haunting memoir about one woman's childhood of abuse and her harrowing decision to leave it all behind that redefines our understanding of estrangement and the ability to triumph over adversity. To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood--growing up in a "nice" Jewish family in middle class Long Island--seemed as wholesomely American as any other. But behind closed doors, Jessica suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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When their younger sibling returns, the three oldest Blair children find their lives disrupted in ways they could have never imagined as they each tell their story that is interwoven with portraits of their family at crucial points in their history.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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With their mother dead and their father imprisoned for her murder, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives that come to the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.
12) From broken boy to mended man: a positive plan to heal your childhood wounds and break the cycle
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Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Learn: what happened to you and why; how you can heal your childhood wounds and break free from destructive, dysfunctional cycles that hold you back; how you can shift to a more compassionate view of your parents (even if they're gone) and reach a place of real forgiveness; how you can better parent your own children so hurtful patterns are not repeated.
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