Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life | 
|  | | | Title: | Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life | | Author: | Susan Forward
Craig Buck | | Publisher: | Bantam | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 02 January, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0553381407 / 9780553381405 | | List Price: | $16.00 | | You Save: | $5.12 | | Amazon Price: | $10.88 | |
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Are you the child of toxic parents?
When you were a child...
• Did your parents tell you you were bad or worthless?
• Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?
• Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?
• Were you often frightened of your parents?
• Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?
Now that you’re an adult...
• Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?
• Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending time with your parents?
• Do your parents control you with threats or guilt? Do they manipulate you with money?
• Do you feel that no matter what you do, it’s never good enough for your parents?
In this remarkable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationship with your parents — and discover a new world of self-confidence, inner strength, and emotional independence.
Amazon.com Review
All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those whose deficiencies cripple their children emotionally. Her brisk, unreserved guide to overcoming the stultifying agony of parental manipulation--from power trips to guilt trips and all other killers of self worth--will help deal with the pain of childhood and move beyond the frustrating relationship patterns learned at home.
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Customer Reviews:
• Must Have If Your Parents Are Crazy Like Mine!! 10 October, 2008
Do you walk on eggshells around your parents? Do you dread seeing them, really? If so, chances are, your parents are toxic and they have you under their control. I have since realized this after 36 years. This book almost appears to have been written by me as it captures what happened in my past and recent relationship with my parents. Get this book! They are crazy and you no longer have to buy into their loonyness! By the way, I just saw a counselor and she said that the first person to either leave the family or get kicked out of it is the healthiest. GO for it; run! You can't change them no matter how much you pity the crazies!!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3VFMDY9EYKGB9
• This Is What Can Really Change Your Life 24 October, 2008
... having someone who stands by your side.
Perfect examples, broad life experience, no judgement, just a quest for the inner truth each one of us has deep inside.
I suggest this book to all those who need a neutral point of view, beyond common sense, religion, and even psychotherapy itself.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A377ULPCSHXCLZ
• Whether You Are A Child Or A Parent...... 13 November, 2008
If there is any lingering hurt between you and your parents or you and your children, this book is worth reading. Even young people can relate well to it's concepts (yup - that's me! pointed out my son - and we're from a pretty close family). I have sent it to many teens and twenty-somethings, but even my 40 & 50 something friends have found some wisdom and comfort in knowing that "it wasn't just them" or "oh my g..! I did that too!"
Knowledge is power and choice - once we have a better understanding about where our "hurts" are originating from, we can change those thought patterns and maybe even find the courage to talk to the ones we have hurt or have hurt us.
Easy, fast and can be read in parts.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2QOAPYDBNI72O
• Good But Not Great 05 October, 2008
Reading this book will confirm what you already suspect about your parent's behavior if you have toxic parents. It will also confirm that many of your emotional habits, such as letting people walk all over you, or not standing up to others because you don't want to make them angry, are because of the way you grew up. This book may help you to redefine your relationship with your toxic parent if you are in a position of still desiring a relationship with that parent. The short coming of this book is that it lumps so many kinds of abuse into one book that you don't get a good feel for how to deal with the specific type(s) of abuse that you experienced. It also doesn't really give the reader any tools to move forward in their own life. Yes, it validates that you were abused, but it doesn't talk about how to move yourself forward in any aspect other than your relationship with your toxic parent. The one thing that I took from this book, and am very greatful for, is the realization that my aging and in poor health, but still miserable, angry, mean, and toxic parent lived her life and made choices to get to where she is today, it isn't my fault she is miserable and mean (even though she would tell me otherwise). I am entitled to live my life, I don't have to feel sorry for her and try to make her feel better at my family's expense anymore. Basically, after reading this book and dealing with a nasty precipitating event, I have realized that I am not responsible for her problems, she is. So if you are in need of validation that your parent is toxic, read this book. However, if you are looking for a way to pull your life together because of childhood abuse, this isn't the book you are looking for.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1JU7JSS1HI4FK
• If The Title On The Cover Speaks To You, The Rest Of The Book Speaks Louder. 22 November, 2008
A well written easy read. If the title grabs your attention and you find the word "toxic" best describes your parents, then this book will give you more than one chapter that will make you think the author was watching you grow up. It is inspiring and hopeful, and best of all, helpful.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2UU8YVDR434VM
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