Becoming Your Own Parent: The Solution for Adult Children of Alcoholic and Other Dysfunctional Families
Becoming Your Own Parent: The Solution for Adult Children of Alcoholic and Other Dysfunctional Families
ISBN: 9780385245913
定价: 180.00
内容简介
This may be a book about you. If you grew
up in a family where you weren t loved
or weren t taught how to love yonrself,
chances are you re now struggling
throngh life. You are not alone.
Millions of aduhs grew up in homes of
alcoholism, workaholism, physical and
sexual abuse, legal or illegal drug
addiction, eating disorders, compulsive
gambling, physical neglect, or emotional
abandonment. Most of these people still
carry deep sears from their childhood.
If you grew up in one of these
"dysfunctional family systems," you
probably experience low self-esteem,
harsh self-judgment, the inability to
form healthy relationships, isolation,
frustration, and depression. Yon may also
be repeating tbe same addictions that
existed in your family or be suffering from
other compulsions.
This is a book about pain, yes; but it is
also a book about hope and change. In
BECOMING YOUR OWN PARENT you will
meet fourteen courageous men and
women from a variety of addictive and
abusive family backgrounds who arc
overcoming the devastating effects of
parental neglect by learning how to
parent themselves.