Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents : How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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4.5 • 468 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Nobody chooses to be raised by emotionally unavailable parents, but in this revealing study, psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson offers choices for how to deal with them in adulthood. Understanding that parents’ neglectful actions spring from their own issues, not their children’s behavior, is key. She breaks down four problematic parenting types—emotional, driven, passive, and rejecting—with concrete examples of the harm each causes. The offspring of ill-equipped caregivers fall into two categories: internalizers and externalizers. (Basically, either cautious or impulsive.) Gibson’s advice offers that recognizing parents’ shortcomings frees their adult children to adjust the relationship—even if that means, in severe cases, no longer having one. She also gives advice on how to make potentially daunting changes such as limiting contact and how to recognize emotional maturity in others so the cycle of disconnect can be broken. Narrator Marguerite Gavin’s calm, steady delivery makes even the most challenging insights feel approachable. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents delivers practical advice for healing from the harm that can come from these types of familial relationships.
Customer Reviews
Worth the Read
A solid book, but you have to be in the right headspace to really absorb it. I’m definitely picking up what she’s putting down. It works if you work it, and I’d recommend it to anyone focused on personal growth.
It explains so much
99% of the world would benefit from this book. Even if you had good parents, it explains why the rest of us are the way we are.
She is bias against externalizers
If you’re an externalizer you may find yourself being offended by her comments about how externalizers are basically “the problem”. She really drives the point home and doesn’t offer any advice for them.