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Doing Life with Your Adult Children

Author : Jim Burns, Ph.D
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310353799

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Doing Life with Your Adult Children by Jim Burns, Ph.D Pdf

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including: My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong? Is it OK to give advice to my grown child? What's the difference between enabling and helping? What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home? What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood? How do I relate to my grown child's significant other? What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries? How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values? Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

Author : Lindsay C. Gibson
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781626251724

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson Pdf

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. 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. Discover the four types of difficult parents: The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory

Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind

Author : Amy J. L. Baker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393075984

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Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind by Amy J. L. Baker Pdf

An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the other parent. This book examines the impact of PAS on adults and offers strategies and hope for dealing with the long-term effects.

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Author : Janet G. Woititz
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781558741126

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Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet G. Woititz Pdf

Describes the symptoms and treatment of alcoholism and examines the ways it can disrupt family relationships

Twelve Steps of Adult Children

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944840079

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Twelve Steps of Adult Children by Anonim Pdf

This is the conference-approved companion workbook to the ACA Fellowship Text that is Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization (ACA WSO) Conference Approved Literature. Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families (ACA) is an independent 12 Step and 12 Tradition anonymous program.

Adult Children

Author : Adult Children of Alcoholics (Association)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Adult children of alcoholics
ISBN : 0978979702

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Adult Children by Adult Children of Alcoholics (Association) Pdf

This is the official ACA Fellowship Text that is Adult Children of Alcoholics World Service Organization (ACA WSO) Conference Approved Literature. Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families (ACA) is an independent 12 Step and 12 Tradition anonymous program.

How to Really Love Your Adult Child

Author : Gary Chapman,Ross Campbell, M.D.
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780802477903

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How to Really Love Your Adult Child by Gary Chapman,Ross Campbell, M.D. Pdf

More than 10 years after Parenting Your Adult Child was published, much has changed - including young adults themselves, as well as their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, the phenomenon of over-involved "helicopter parenting" - all make relating to grown children more difficult than ever. Yet at the same time, being a parent of an adult child can bring great rewards. This revised and updated version of Dr. Gary Chapman's and Dr. Ross Campbell's message will help today's parents explore how to really love their adult child in today's changing world. The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children and adult children themselves with their own stories. An online study guide will also be available.

Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families

Author : John Friel,Linda D. Friel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780757393358

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Adult Children Secrets of Dysfunctional Families by John Friel,Linda D. Friel Pdf

It is estimated that as many as 34 million people grew up in alcoholic homes. But what about the rest of us? What about families that had no alcoholism, but did have perfectionism, workaholism, compulsive overeating, intimacy problems, depression, problems in expressing feelings, plus all the other personality traits that can produce a family system much like an alcoholic one? Countless millions of us struggle with these kinds of dysfunctions every day, and until very recently we struggled alone. Pulling together both theory and clinical practice, John and Linda Friel provide a readable explanation of what happened to us and how we can rectify it.

After the Tears

Author : Jane Middelton-Moz,Lorie Dwinell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780757393372

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After the Tears by Jane Middelton-Moz,Lorie Dwinell Pdf

Adult children of alcoholics have learned how to "survive," but often have difficulty "living" their lives. The trauma and grief of childhood losses affect every aspect of the life of an adult child of an alcoholic (ACoA). Now the authors of the bestselling After the Tears offer further insight into the origin and cost of childhood pain for those who grew up in alcoholic families. In this revised and expanded edition, Jane Middelton-Moz and Lorie Dwinell combine their years of experience in working with ACoAs, tackling issues such as intimacy, sibling relationships, codependency, breaking the alcoholic pattern, building a relationship with the inner child, forgiveness, and opening a window to spirituality.

The Death of an Adult Child

Author : Jeanne Webster Blank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351863452

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The Death of an Adult Child by Jeanne Webster Blank Pdf

This book was written to be a comfort and guide for bereaved parents whose adult child has died; to show by sharing our experiences that we are not alone in our responses to our child's death; that we are not weak, defective in character or otherwise inadequate because of the way we grieve; to spell out ways in which some of us have increased our understanding of our condition, found solace, dispelled guilt and anger, overcome depression, come to terms with survivors, and memorialized our deceased children. Questionnaires were sent to more than sixty bereaved parents of adult children who died and many anonymous examples from these questionnaires are used throughout the book.

Difficult

Author : Judith R. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781538138892

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Difficult by Judith R. Smith Pdf

Told from the perspective of mothers who’ve lived it, Difficult focuses on mothering challenging adult children. Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected, burdensome, and even catastrophic dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment. Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers readable, provocative, and, at times, shocking illustrations of the excruciating maternal dilemma: Which takes precedence—the needs of the mother or of the distressed adult child? Difficult addresses a family situation which too many keep secret. The book allows readers to see that they are not alone. It includes resources for getting help: finding social support, staying safe, engaging in self-care, and helping the adult child. Judith Smith speaks empathically to parents, acknowledging and illuminating the embarrassment, shame, and helplessness that women can feel when their adult children’s problems puncture their own feelings of self-worth. In the absence of sufficient supports and affordable housing for persons with mental illness or substance misuse disorder, mothers feel that they have no choice – “if not me, then who?” Unpaid and unrecognized maternal caregiving work continues to limit women’s quality of life, even, into their later years. Smith addresses this as a societal issue which requires structural solutions. Difficult is for parents, concerned family and friends, health and mental health professionals, and policy makers. The book provides resources for women to find social support, stay safe, and engage in self-care.

Rules of Estrangement

Author : Joshua Coleman, PhD
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780593136874

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Rules of Estrangement by Joshua Coleman, PhD Pdf

A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children. “Finally, here’s a hopeful, comprehensive, and compassionate guide to navigating one of the most painful experiences for parents and their adult children alike.”—Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Labeled a silent epidemic by a growing number of therapists and researchers, estrangement is one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life. Popular opinion typically tells a one-sided story of parents who got what they deserved or overly entitled adult children who wrongly blame their parents. However, the reasons for estrangement are far more complex and varied. As a result of rising rates of individualism, an increasing cultural emphasis on happiness, growing economic insecurity, and a historically recent perception that parents are obstacles to personal growth, many parents find themselves forever shut out of the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. As a trusted psychologist whose own daughter cut off contact for several years and eventually reconciled, Dr. Joshua Coleman is uniquely qualified to guide parents in navigating these fraught interactions. He helps to alleviate the ongoing feelings of shame, hurt, guilt, and sorrow that commonly attend these dynamics. By placing estrangement into a cultural context, Dr. Coleman helps parents better understand the mindset of their adult children and teaches them how to implement the strategies for reconciliation and healing that he has seen work in his forty years of practice. Rules of Estrangement gives parents the language and the emotional tools to engage in meaningful conversation with their child, the framework to cultivate a healthy relationship moving forward, and the ability to move on if reconciliation is no longer possible. While estrangement is a complex and tender topic, Dr. Coleman's insightful approach is based on empathy and understanding for both the parent and the adult child.

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents

Author : Lindsay C. Gibson
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781684032549

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Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson Pdf

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.

Healing the Child Within

Author : Charles L. Whitfield
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780932194404

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Healing the Child Within by Charles L. Whitfield Pdf

Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all. In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within—that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled—launched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion and unhappiness of adult life. Eighteen years and more than a million copies sold later, Healing the Child Within is a perennial selling classic in the field of psychology. And it is even more timely today than it was in 1987. Recent brain research, particularly on the effects of trauma on the brain of developing children, has supported Whitfield's intuitive understanding as a psychiatrist. About HCI Recovery Classics HCI's recovery backlist contains some of the most important and best-selling works in the recovery field. These books are still sought after today, selling more than 100,000 copies per year. Our new line of branded books features expanded editions of our top recovery titles, new introductions, updates on pertinent recent developments in the field, and contemporary new covers and packaging.

Done With The Crying

Author : Sheri McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 0997352205

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Done With The Crying by Sheri McGregor Pdf

In this encouraging book, Sheri McGregor helps parents of estranged adult children break free from emotional pain and move forward in their lives. With the latest research, her own experience, and insight from more than 9,000 parents, McGregor covers the growing trend of estranged adults from loving families. Devastated parents can be happy again.