Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents

Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy

De: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD

Narrado por: Suzie Althens

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.

©2019 Lindsay C. Gibson (P)2019 New Harbinger Publications

A must read if you are an adult children of Emotionally Immature Parents or if you treat people with this background

I love that gives a ton of language to experiences that are hard to articulate, and the advice is spot on, very practical and sound. Of all the books about NPD/BPD parents, this book’s language is the least blaming, more validating and least extremist. Every time I read it I feel seen in ways that I rarely feel, and it really really helps. Lindsay C. Gibson is my magical fairy godmother now. Go listen to it!

Insightful and practical

Thank you Lindsay for writing this book Its a great resource and provided a comprehensive and insightful view on these family dynamics which challenge many of us at varying levels. Now I know what to call these issues and have practical advise on how to address it.

transformational & freeing

Every person hut by emotionally immature parents will benefit greatly from reading this! the topic is a tough one, but was wildly freeing where I thought it would be overwhelming. I love the specific examples of how to handle specific situations.

Life changing

This was amazing and helped me in ways that I didn’t realize I needed. Highly recommend seriously!! 10/10

Wish I found this book earlier!

This book is an absolute godsend. Exactly what I need to have tools in my toolbox! Will be listening again and again.

Amazing Insight

I think this book was written for me. And well, I’m not 100% happy about that, I am extremely happy to have tools and abilities to deal with not only difficult parents who are emotionally available, but also the men that I attract because of how I grew up. This is probably the most helpful book I’ve ever read. I had thought that my mom was a narcissist, and she may have been on the narcissism spectrum but she was definitely emotionally unavailable, as with my dad, as was my grandmother. I now understand why I’m the way I am and I have the tools to overcome. Thank you.

Thought-provoking and solutioning

The author provides great questions to brainstorm, helpful ways to put things into perspective, and information on hard-to-otherwise-find tools (e.g., non-complementary behavior)

Very insightful

Very insightful. Great examples of EIP’s behavior and how to take back your identity. Highly recommend!

Very Good

Definitely helped put some puzzle pieces together, sometimes a difficult read; breaks required. Enjoyed the writing exercises in the book!

Great book, fast narrator

Very helpful information to apply to past, present, and future relationships with emotionally immature people