num_pages: 224
description: 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 youll 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 youre ready to stop putting your own needs last clear the clutter of self-doubt and move beyond the fear of judgment and punishment thats been instilled in you by emotionally immature parents this book will help you find the freedom to finally live your life your way .
language: English
title: Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
publisher: New Harbinger Publications