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I am still on a bit of a self help kick, and this one came up as recommended for me. I am definitely the target audience for this book. I think it's actually been really helpful for me to read some of these books in September and hear some of the same things repeated about being able to prioritize myself, have empathy for myself, and the ways in which I can apply that to healthy relationship habits. One of my favorite parts was the description of Threshold Guardians as obstacles to success/progr...
DNFI’ll wait for the main book on this subject to be available at the library. This is just a compendium of short texts that do no provide me with the info I was looking to find.
Like many others, I was profoundly impacted by Gibson's other book "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" and I was looking forward to some more practical, daily life applications from this book. This was not that. There are some meaningful chapters, but the book often veers away from being about specific challenges due to being raised by EI parents, and becomes vague, ableist, and trite. This becomes upsetting and shows up in parts about challenges re: EI parents too. Such as in the "...
Overall this book has very little to do with self-care and significantly less to do with emotionally immature parents. The advice given was choppy, inconsistent, and unsourced, going as far as to cite a TV show about dog training in a section about establishing boundaries; comparing people to dogs aside, the show cited was Cesar Milan’s show which features his training style that is based entirely on a study that has been proven inaccurate to the lifestyle of wolves (which was what the study was...
A thoughtful, practical collection of ~70 reflections. Some had metaphors that got a little literal/corny at times, but overall it all felt accessible and had genuinely good intent. I will say I have the some critiques as the first book — very binary in the way gender is talked about, and not so thoughtful about neurodivergent identities and behaviors. But otherwise a pretty good and thoughtful book to have around! I liked the beginning several chapters of it most! Side note: the book often talk...
First book finished this month, ironically.
This book, for me at least, was a little lack luster. There was less help understanding and processing your past and more about your future. This was good at some times but it went into topics I don’t think completely followed the actual title or idea of the book such as a ton of parenting tips which I don’t think I really signed up for. I was hoping it would focus more on what the title outlined and less on if you become a parent (which a lot don’t even want to do). Overall I just thought it wa...
Loved this book! Once you have an understanding of the EI behaviors in adults, this book makes a great companion for ensuring you take care of yourself. Whether you have EI parents, coworkers, neighbors, or friends/family, this book will help you:- nurture yourself- set, enforce, and communicate boundaries- disconnect from what doesn't serve youYou don't have to read this book in order. There are helpful groupings around parenting, relationships, etc., so you are easily able to refresh yourself
All three books in this series are fantastic, but this one could be titled Life Skills Refresher for Adults of Human Parents, as it supports and clarifies maturation and growth for anyone. Short, right to the point chapters cover everything from healthy emotional boundaries, to what emotionally mature friendships do and don’t look like (and how to develop better ones, if your current friendships are draining or painful), to practical ways to approach stress and life challenges. And how to find a...
I was a huge fan of Lindsay Gibson’s first book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. When I saw that she had written a new book on the same topic, I was eager to read it but because her first book had been so in-depth I was skeptical about whether it would cover any new ground.It turns out I needn’t have worried because as I found out after finishing Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence, Dr. Gib...
Series of short snippets and advice. Definitely not the book I'd recommend on this topic of emotionally immature parents... The author's other two books are far more useful, containing more nuanced discussion. This book is simplistic, and even contains incorrect stuff (for example, Cesar Milan's idea of wolf dominance - undermined years ago, by the same guy who first developed it). This book didn't even feel like the same author. More like the publisher tried to create a Chicken Soup for the Sou...
I always had a feeling that this book could be shorter. Some chapters were super helpful and some were very obvious to me. I suppose that I might’ve learnt some of the lessons from the book before I read it and it might be the reason I didn’t find some chapters interesting to me.
DNFed at 62%.Couldn't get through the whole "Parents, your child is/will be so and so" part and, at that point, I was rolling my eyes so hard every paragraph that I couldn't just powerthrough and get to the rest.Girlie, stop, you're making a fool of yourself talking about zoomers like you know the inner self of ANY of them, idolizing your problematic faves like the Dalai Lama or Ceasar Millan, talking about alphas like it's a thing or the whole extrovert/introvert child behavior. This is giving
I really enjoyed Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and picked up this book hoping to find more exercises and insights. And left a bit disappointed. Rather than exercises it was mini-essays on various aspects of self-care. There was a lot of good information and I felt the beginning of the book had some good insights, but towards the end it was stuff you'd find in a lot of other materials. For someone with no self-care skills this would be a good place to start and a less intimidatin...
At the beginning of the pandemic I stumbled upon Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents through my libraries digital collection. Generally, I avoid self-help books. I often find them condescending or impractical. However, the wait list for it was ridiculously long and I was intrigued. Over a year later I finally received it. I finished it in a day. There was a lot of useful information and tools for self-reflection about identifying what type of Emotionally Immature parent you had and me...
I found this collection of reflections to be more uneven than the author's previous, to me incredibly valuable, books about the impacts of growing up with Emotionally Immature Parents, and I skipped through many sections. There were several chapters which were very worthwhile, however, importantly elaborating again on how to distance ourselves from our critical inner voices, and cherishing the value in our inner worlds and our experiences."You probably have a man-spirited inner voice that is exc...
I expected more from this book. Based on the title, I thought it would have more psychological explanations of emotionally immature parents and their children. This book reads more like a series of short "insight-pieces" as the author describes it. Each chapter is around two pages and just feel like vague, general ideas about "self-care."I was expecting something with a little more depth. This book was more like a therapy Instagram feed with some big ideas thrown out there about slowing down, be...
This is wonderfully practical, useful information for people who may not have had emotional intelligence modeled or taught to them as children. It's broken into manageable sections and topics, so the reader can really delve into each piece and work through each concept without getting overwhelmed.I really appreciated the affirmation that "DNA is not a life sentence" and that family, and the toxic pattens it may contain, isn't something that is inescapable. I also liked the distinction made betwe...
Really excellent content. It doesn’t have to be read in order; each chapter is a bite-sized, yet deeply focused on some aspect or other. I found it to be just the right balance. Not overwhelming but certainly not shallow or surface-level content either. As a regular attender of Adult Child of Alcoholics and/or Dysfunctional Families, I found this book to be an absolutely lovely companion on the road to nurture my inner child and develop my own loving inner parent.There is also a practical sectio...
This book consists of very short and numerous chapters. I started out really liking the book, listening at a fast speed initially and then slowing it down to re-listen to the first several chapters. Focusing on your intuition and gut instinct, etc felt like solid healing advice. But as the book progressed, it took a turn. Suddenly there were many chapters about parenting which were unexpected and sped through the life span of a child at light speed. There was nothing in the title to suggest it w...