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    Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
    Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
    Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
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    Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

    Written by Lindsay C. Gibson

    Narrated by Suzie Althens

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Harbinger Publications
    Release dateOct 25, 2019
    ISBN9781684036950
    Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

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    • 1/5
      First book was great, it focused on explanation and empathy. This book is a great disappointment because it seems to be all about what the author thinks you should do when dealing with emotionally insecure people. Examples: compliment them, say certain phrases, act a certain way, etc. I felt very disconnected and annoyed listening to this book. I didn't expect to be lectured, since the first book was actually fine.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The other books by the Author are not available on SCRiBD so I can only comment on this one and have no idea if the previous ones are similar. Nevertheless for someone who approached the subject of emotional immaturity this is a great manual. Helpful and clarifying at so many levels. Careful that it's not just parents but partners and family members too that can fall into this category. Highly recommended.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Incredibly Validating!! For the first time in my life, I feel right in my emotions and in my head. So many things from my childhood are now clarified.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book is an amazing tool on how to get closer to your true self as well as become more aware of your reactions and interactions. Exactly what I needed! Thank you!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It took me years to build my self worth and find practical skills up against people who told me what was wrong but not how to fix It. Thank you I finally feel more at peace

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This whole series has been life changing for me. Learning to identify WHAT is happening to me and WHY I feel a certain way and learning it’s NOT JUST ME??!! This has been so useful with practical advice for how to address handling an emotionally immature parent and how to become my own person finally, at age 28.
    • 2/5
      Although validating and straight to the punch regarding emotionally insecure(not mature) parents , I find that this book is more fixated on the hows and whys of the "downfall" or "lackings" of our parents as opposed to the overall reconstruction or rebuilding of healthier, respectful relationships. The goal is to educate and cast blame. There is little prompting or motivational cues to reflect, mend or rebuild the readers, themself.
    • 5/5
      Extremely validating and helpful with practical examples. I’ll definitely listen again.
    • 5/5
      Great book and great narrator. You will learn a lot.
    • 5/5
      Wish this book was available 20 years ago. I think lots of people seek therapy and drown in not really helpful angles and perspectives...That the cultlike environment of unsafe emotional immature parents deny childs separetedness, needs , mental and emotional freedom- that instead of encourage child grow awareness of self and inner world - parents are like cultleaders w totalitarian regime tend to and nurture distorted perception of narcissism: lack of empathy and distorted reality. Rejection of truth, authentic self and ability form deep intimate close relationship to child ,but objectify in one sided unequal relationship- to really grasp magnitude of violation of self- and the denial of childs rights and truth - No therapy really adress this. Book suggest EIP Parents/ people noable form deep connection is the one seek people outside of themselves - like children to stabilize their emotions - and also EIP seek cultlike contexts , not really understand emotions...Very uncomfortable truth, very mindful...Grateful understand this practical shift lots of distorted perception. The truth will set you free!
    • 1/5
      This book is still making YOU do all the work to maintain a relationship with emotionally immature parents. No thank you, NC seems to be the best option for me and my narcissistic parents
    • 5/5
      Best narrator and best author I’ve read so far with regards to inner healing
    • 5/5
      Absolutely extraordinary! If your family or relative is emotional immature causing dysfunctional relations with you - read it or listened to. Eye opener and full of practical advice. I have much more clarity in my situation
    • 5/5
      Amazingly helpful. I recommend this to anyone with difficult parents. The sooner you read it, the better.