Running on Empty

Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

De: Christine Musello PsyD, Jonice Webb PhD

Narrado por: Karen White

Do you sometimes feel as if you're just going through the motions in life? Are you good at looking and acting as if you're fine, but secretly feel lonely and disconnected? If so, you are not alone. The world is full of people who have an innate sense that something is wrong with them - who feel they live on the outside looking in, but have no explanation for this feeling and no way to put it into words.

If you are one of these people, you may fear that you are not connected enough to your spouse, or that you don't feel pleasure or love as profoundly as others do. You may drink too much, or eat too much, or risk too much, in an attempt to feel something good.

Running on Empty will give you clear strategies for how to heal, and offers a special chapter for mental-health professionals. In the world of human suffering, this book is an emotional smart bomb meant to eradicate the effects of an invisible enemy.

©2013 Jonice Webb, PhD (P)2015 Tantor

An engaging research

It solves many mysteries from my past experiences.Very touching my heart indeed.Sorry for my english.

Insights into emptiness

The author offers insights from her extensive experience identifying and treating patients suffering from the adult side-effects of “emotional neglect” as children.

It’s a very helpful framing of how the things that /didn’t happen/ to children can affect them later as adults and how to provide for those things in adulthood.

Life changing!

Dr. Jonice Webb has done the entire mental health community a major service by writing this book. I am blown away by the comprehensive understanding of Childhood Emotional Neglect provided in this book. If you have ever struggled with depression or anxiety or a feeling of emptiness please read this book. It could change your life.

Loved it!!

I truly loved the information this book. As soon as I heard it I shared some concepts with my patients (opioid addicted in MAT). The concepts related to each as I shared the. and they saw themselves. I connected this idea with others I freqenthaly use and also found it highly valuable in my personal life. I couldn't "put it down." I was riveted from the first chapter! Thank you Jonice!

Suicidal fantasies?!?!

If you have ver had suicidal fantasies. I think chapter 5 of this book is for you. It is a good perspective of how suicidal people aren’t themselves messed up, but how their emotional neglect had brought them to a sense of normalization of depression and not knowing it because they have been emotionally starved their whole lives and that is all they know—emotional sadness.
An example would be a fish that was born in polluted water wondering why it is always feeling crappy. It’s not the fish, it’s the world around it that it has only known since birth and never suspected
A emotionally neglected friend told me this book goes up in his top five favorites of all time.
My only issue is the Narrator. Her robot-like voice-over work has me at times feeling like I am listening to the iPhones SIRI read me a book aloud. Very robot like. It took me awhile to get used to honestly

Excellent!

Gone from attachment theory books to cptsd books, the body keeps score, all of them worth reading and all tying into adverse childhood experiences or neglect.

Great information on unique niche

This book identifies how research has overlooked emotional neglect and tries to explain how this happens. The book does a great job of explaining how this happens in families that many would consider good. Highly recommend if you're interested in psychology, family systems, attachment, or self-development.

I think everyone can benefit from this book

This book has helped me immensly.

whether one has childhood emotional neglect in their history or not, I think everyone can benefit from this book.

the information is relayed via conversation excerpts, so there's no misinterpreting.

This is proving to be an important, missing key to my healing, even after many years of therapy & reading, and I'm already seeing how my daughter is benefiting as well.

Thank you. Dr. Webb!

I'm glad I purchased this book

I believe this would be a really good book for anyone who is either struggling with these issues, know somebody who is, or as a reference book for somebody in the field. This book mentions that there may be people who struggle with these problems and don't even realize it. if someone finds themselves pondering whether or not this would be a useful book for them and whatever situation they may be going through, Dr Jonice has a website you can check out that may give you a better feel of what to expect from the book. If you think this book may help you I would definitely recommend. Even if you're not sure. Emotional neglect and emotional intelligence are a lot more serious and important than most of us may realize.

A worthy read for all parents

Meaningful insights for parents to chart an intentional path forward for the emotional education of their children.

Meaningful breakdown of what might be driving challenges for adults who find themselves wanting to improve their mental and emotional health.