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  • Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents

  • Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy
  • By: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
  • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
  • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (565 ratings)

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Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
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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
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Highly Recommend

Love it! It has great insight into you as well as emotionally immature parents (EIPs), educational, gives you exercises to journal about and tools to help you with interactions with EIPs.

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Helped me out so much

This book has helped me out so much. At one point before this book, I was feeling like I was going crazy and the on at fault. That my mother’s actions were because of me. I feel much more confident. The only problem I see is that most of this advice is for those who have already moved out of their home and away from their parents. However many of us are adults and still unable to leave home. I was hoping I’d hear advice regarding that

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Great narration, practical and focused.


The narration voice was read with warmth and assertion which strengthens the content of the book. The content itself is practical, the language is simple but yet focused. Highly recommend this book.

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Life changing

I've never heard my relationship with my mother laid out so explicitly and accurately. Thank you for giving me the language to voice how I've always felt and new language to set boundaries. This has altered my perception of myself and the love I deserve.

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Great

Eye opening and very very very very very very very very very fifteen word review

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Good book with practical applications

Very thorough assessment of an EIP and their interactions with their child. It helps you understand the mindset of the EIP and how to engage with them without leveraging your identity.

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So helpful and healing

This book explains more than just my parents! I felt like I was checking off every detail of an EIP from family I grew up with. I feel much better knowing that it wasn’t just my experience. Now I know what to look for and how to respond in these situations. Grateful!

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Very insightful

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

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Very Good

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

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Great book, fast narrator

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

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