Why Can't I Ever Be Good Enough? Escaping the Limits of Your Childhood Roles
Unlike comparable books on "toxic" families, our book offers adults from many different kinds of families real tools for change. Therapists have long told us that we need to do away with unhealthy roles from childhood, but here is a book that offers a clear, simple concept (contracts), and way of making that change (rewriting contracts). For people who grew up with parents who couldn't be trusted to establish reliable rules or expectations and today are uncomfortable with who they are, who may believe they are not worthy of love, and who are confused about what they need and want from love and work and life. Women who seek treatment for these issues are 20 and over, while men are usually 40 and over.