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  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

  • How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
  • By: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
  • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
  • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (989 ratings)

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
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Summary

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.

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"Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, gives practical insight into a prevalent problem.... The book is impeccably clear.... This utter lack of confusion makes the book quite soothing, despite the heavy subject." ( Foreword Magazine)

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Takes you on superb emotional journey

Be ready to feel so many mixed emotions. Sadness, anger, and somehow a huge sense of relieve. Sunday it all makes sense. I felt as if I was listening to my wise great friend who understands my pain.
If aren’t sure about getting this book, I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Enjoy the journey of meeting the real you soon.

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incredibly eye-opening

I wasn't expecting to resonate with the stories used as examples quite as much as I have. It seems like I can now put words onto emotions and feelings I hadn't been able to process, accept or name before.

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If you are making all wrong financial investment that's unappreciated by your family, read this.

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highly recommend it

The insights, information and advice contained in this book are extremely helpful and have definitely moved me along considerably on my personal development.
The only thing was, lovely as the narrators voice is, its not always a consistent volume and I missed the odd word here and there. Ok if listening in a quiet space but tricky if travelling around whilst listening.

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Amazing

Helped provide answers to years of distressing attempts to get a real connection with a certain emotionally absent & neglectful parent. Not only did this book have saying “yep that’s me” every few lines, it also provides excellent ways to manage your relationship better with people who are emotionally phobic and don’t know how to truly connect and listen to you. 10/10!

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very insightful, yet sad

this book put a lot of things I already felt and sort of knew into perfect synch and perfection. I fully understand things in comparison to before as this book clarified things.

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Excellent

Really thought-provoking book. Speaks to my experiences with clarity and compassion. Would recommend you read.

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Helps to understand your situation

For anyone finally realising this was their relatable childhood, this this book is worth a listen. So many things start to make sense and you realise you are not the one who was always at fault

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Well-written and impactful

Great book that thought me a lot about myself and others around me. I recommend it to anyone open to understand themselves better.

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Clear, concise and insightful

I’ve been re-listening to this non-stop since I bought it. Along with other research, conversations with friends/family/my therapist and my own background in psychotherapy, it’s proved to be an extremely enlightening addition to understanding my child emotional neglect from emotionally immature and narcissistic parents. Thank you for this gift!

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