Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children
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Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children
Parents who were not nurtured well and did not receive unconditional love themselves, may smother their children with attention in an attempt not to be neglectful.
Connie Dawson • Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
Many therapists believe that adults unconsciously repeat unhealthy patterns from their early parent-child relationships—for example, picking partners who are unavailable in ways that are similar to how a parent was unavailable. In these cases healing is often a matter of becoming aware of the pattern, working through these childhood wounds in thera
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having a hard time maintaining social and intimate relationships
Maria Clarke • Healing Your Wounded Inner Child: A CBT Workbook to Overcome Past Trauma, Face Abandonment and Regain Emotional Stability. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
EI parents can’t seem to imagine the feelings of their adult children. They resist your attempts to set boundaries in the relationship. Such parents use guilt to force a closeness that you may not want, and your requests for more space and respectful treatment seem to fall on deaf ears.