Adult Survivors

Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You're not alone. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You'll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride.

When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. But it was not your fault, and there are tools you can use to heal the trauma caused by your childhood.

An analysis of the relationship between attachment and dissociation, written by a survivor of extreme trauma. Not meant to be a complete treatise, but a discussion of some crucial points that link early attachment injuries and dissociative tendencies - both in parents, and in turn, in their children. Includes the author's story of recovering from an attachment disorder and thoughts on ways that others can do the same.

Fiona doesn't remember going to sleep. But when she opens her eyes, she discovers her entire world has been altered - her house is abandoned and broken, and the entire neighborhood is barren and dead. Even stranger is the tattoo on her right wrist - a black oval with five marks on either side - that she doesn't remember getting but somehow knows she must cover at any cost. And she's right.

How can Danielle understand "normal" if she has never experienced it? She was moved from town to town, kept hidden from society, and always felt like an outsider. Her innocence was brutally taken by someone she least expected. She harbored a dark secret that could devastate her family—a secret she fiercely protected. Would the burden of shame be too much to bear if the truth were revealed? As secrets are uncovered, Danielle plunges into a tumultuous descent with nothing to stop her fall.

Toxic Family Freedom in 5 Minutes a Day Take Charge of Your Happiness In just 5 minutes a day, you can begin to recover from the long-term wounds inflicted by your unhealthy and dysfunctional family. "Toxic Family 365: 5 Minutes a Day to Toxic Family Healing" is a groundbreaking resource designed to boost your self-confidence, help you set boundaries with toxic relatives, and, if necessary, walk away from family members who were supposed to love you but hurt you instead. Fix Common Toxic Family Problems "Toxic Family 365" addresses the common problems caused by toxic families. Through this ...

Literary Titan says fans of short stories will enjoy the loosely threaded stories that show life cannot be seen as black and white, as every situation always has gray areas. Colin, a wealthy, unhappy businessman waits for his wife at Windows on the World and dreams about the only woman he ever loved. (Casualties). Clancy flirts with the young woman who swims laps with him as his stroke-damaged wife waits for him at her nursing home. (Freestyle) A father grieves for his fireman son who died on 9-11. (Without a Trace) Missy has too much drink, falls out of her truck and gets run over by it. ...

Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn’t have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he’s done waiting around for Death-Cast. If they say he’s not dying, he’ll just have to prove them wrong. But right before Paz can die, a boy saves his life.

From this book, What Papa Told Me, you will learn about the story of Murray, a young Jewish boy from Poland whose courage and sheer will to live helped him survive eight different labor and concentration camps in the Holocaust, start a new life in America, and keep a family intact in the aftermath of his wife's suicide - one of the Nazis' last victims.

Behold the Sheet From Shame to Strength: A Teen’s Journey Through Bedwetting, Betrayal, and Love Flora has always felt like a ghost in her own home—unseen, unheard, and burdened by a secret she couldn’t control: bedwetting. Growing up in a toxic environment where shame was louder than love, every morning brought soaked sheets and sinking hope. When she finally runs away, she’s not just escaping her family—she’s searching for healing. Her path collides with Lucien, a powerful Mafia boss with secrets of his own. Under his roof, Flora finds something she never expected—safety. ...

As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over 20 years. It Didn't Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms.

In a world where duty binds hearts and the weight of tradition looms heavy, a young wolf shifter finds herself entangled in a web of family expectations. As the pack Beta's daughter, Elara is expected to become the Luna, stepping into a role defined by the desires of others. But on the eve of her forced mating with the future Alpha, she defies her fate, escaping into the unforgiving wilderness. In the heart of a snowstorm, she discovers sanctuary in the arms of her true Mate, Kai, a mysterious wolf who holds the key to a legacy shattered by his own choice. After abandoning the Alpha ...

Collector's Full Color Edition is printed with full color photographs. Have you ever dreamed of leaving home and travelling endlessly? There have been so many junctures in my life where I thought I should write this story. Many times, I didn’t because I knew it wasn’t completely written yet. Other times I didn’t do it because it wasn’t mine to tell. Over time it became too vast and complex to explain. Incomprehensible. Unbelievable. Impossible. Improbable. Crazy. And then the part of the story that wasn’t mine to tell became something that only I could tell. In the years of this ...

A beautiful story of wartime survival, this is the romantic love story about a young Austrian Jewish girl who survives WWII by hiding from the Nazis whilst living amongst them in Hitler’s Munich. There was a knock on the door of the apartment. She looked through the spyglass to see two Gestapo officers standing there. What did they want, had they come for her? Had she been discovered after all this time? Was she about to lose everything, including her life? Rebecca was a beautiful teenager with many friends who loved her. However, for her, life as a young Austrian woman would change ...

A post-apocalyptic adventure split between two character perspectives, the plots here move forward quickly and in parallel, as a couple separated following a 50-year frozen sleep by which they escaped the destruction seeks to survive and perhaps reunite. In the aftermath of the solar flare that has hit the earth in all its raging fury, Wren must join her squad to find her way back to civilization. She has lost everything; her family, her chance at the perfect future, and Aiden, the boy who loved her more than she deserved. She finds comfort in her squad, but getting through the horrors of ...

Can they survive a post-apocalyptic world filled with evil? Heartbroken, Kim decides to move on with her life and return to the surface. She assumes the threat she faced in her underground shelter is gone, but she’ll soon find out that evil has no boundaries and face her greatest test when she discovers what remains. Bestselling author Scott W. Kimak delivers another nail-biter in part two of his prequel to the “I Call him HIM” trilogy. A survival thriller perfect for fans of Kyla Stone, Ryan Schow, Grace Hamilton, and Jack Hunt. Buy What Remains today!

LYRICS EDITION: Features all-new original lyrics and music from the Wynter Wild series “I honestly am in love with this series. 10/10” - Goodreads reviewer Two hearts yearning As Wynter and Jesse set out on an adventure-filled road trip to rescue Indio from drugs and despair, back home Caleb resolves to take control of his family as once-close relationships deteriorate. Meanwhile in Sacramento, Xay Morant lives with his ailing mother and a whole heap of bitterness over his year spent in the Light. He's doing okay, all things considered. But he's never forgotten the girl from the ashram ...

"Fantastic!" —William E. Range, LMHC, Therapist Real Advice from a Toxic Family Survivor—Not Just Theory Someone who knows your pain. Break free. Set boundaries. Know when to walk away. "My father always said he loved me, but his actions and words told a different story. For eighteen years, I lived in a domestically violent home where verbal, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse occurred daily. Instead of loving me, my father kept me afraid. My mother sat by and let it happen. Their parenting was a constant reign of control and terror." Take Back Your Life—Even If Your Family...

This is a WW2 story of great courage and survival against almost impossible odds. During the year of 1942, Yvette Jackson, a young fun loving and very beautiful twenty year old girl was enjoying her second year as a medical student training to be a doctor. However, her world turned upside down when requested to attend the office of her professor, who informed her that she had an unknown visitor waiting for her. She’d received a visit from the mysterious caller, who simply called himself, Mr. Black. She discovered this man worked at the offices of “The Department of Fish & Fisheries” ...

It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?