Dealing With Emotionally Immature Parents

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life. Discover the four types of difficult parents: The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory

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.

Do you feel you lost your childhood because your parents weren't ready to emotionally take care of a child? Have you ever feel like you always have been the adult in your child-parent relationship? Did you have to deal with self centered parents who neglected your needs? All you ever wanted was parents who listen to your stories, welcome you with open arms and tell you how much they love you, no matter what you do. Instead you walked around on eggshells making sure none of your actions would upset or irritate your parents. No matter how much effort you put into getting your parents attention, you couldn ́t overcome the imaginary wall they built around themselves. Even if you experienced anger, you suppressed this feeling or even worse, you turned the anger against yourself and blame yourself for your parents ́ behavior. The older you got, the more you started to suffer from the effects of your childhood. By now you are a grown-up, but you still live with the scars of your past. Some of the most common coping mechanisms are living an isolated life, suffering from anxieties or being stuck in dysfunctional and abusive relationships. Many people grow up with emotionally immature parents. They all behave slightly different but one thing the #1 thing they have in common is, they don't accept their parent role. You can ́t change your past but you can change your future. Author and expert, Priscilla Posey knows, dealing with emotionally immature parents can be tough, especially if you don ́t have anyone who supports you. Growing up dysfunctional child-parent relationship, Priscilla knows how it feels to suffer from the emotional baggage that is not supposed to be yours. Priscilla healed from her childhood trauma and became the self-confident person she was born to be. Now she wants to help others to achieve the same fulfilling life. Once you understand the root of your problem, you can create the happy life you deserve. In "Dealing With Emotionally Immature Parents", you ́ll discover: 7 signs of emotional immaturity to recognize emotional vampires instantly 4 types of emotionally immature parents and which one you can relate to the most 4 steps to heal from your dysfunctional child-parent relationship How a lost childhood shapes the person you have become If you are the perfectionist, the empath or the people pleaser and what your behavior says about your personality How to avoid and let go of other toxic relationships in your life Why you feel like a chameleon without identity and how to discover your true self Practical exercises to take care of yourself and your self healing journey How to become a good parent for your own child And much more. You don ́t have to fully let go of your parents. Yet, you have to learn how to separate the person you love from the actions that hurt you. It is hard to take action and strive for a fulfilling life if you just hit rock bottom. For such a long time you tried to change the people around you or fix the toxic relationships you have been stuck in for so many years. Now it is the right time to start healing yourself instead of taking care of others. If you are sick of the person you ́ve become and you don ́t even know who you are anymore then it is time to finally detach from your past and start the journey to yourself. Following Priscilla ́s self-healing strategies will empower you to step out of your misery and right into happiness. If you are ready to invest in yourself and your happiness, then claim your copy now!

Emotional immaturity is a great threat to developing a good human relationship. It is basically a situation in which an adult behaves like a child. As a child grows, it is expected that the child develops not only physically and psychologically, but emotionally too. A mature person is someone who is emotionally mature as he is able to understand other people’s viewpoint, empathetic to others, control his behavior, and be able to stay in good terms with others. Emotional immaturity may result from an individual’s innate personality, negligence from parents during their formative years, traumas in the past, or upbringing. It takes a conscious effort to develop maturity in an emotionally immature adult. Whichever may be the cause of immaturity, this book is a concise guide for emotional maturity and ways to deal with immature people, especially in a relationship. You will learn tactics for emotional intelligence to shield yourself from emotional trauma, and also control a person with emotional immaturity.

"A sweet story of finding love where you least expected to. A romp through New York City with fresh immigrant eyes. Kiran and Nash's journey to learning to see themselves and others across boundaries and preconceived notions will warm your heart."—Sonali Dev, author of Recipe for Persuasion She's determined to be the perfect daughter, until she meets the perfect guy... Kiran Mathur knows firsthand how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself—by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne. Nash is a dedicated doctor and committed to being alone. His family life has taught him the inevitability of abandonment, and he isn't ready to question his beliefs. But in spending time with Kiran, he starts to experience emotion he's never felt before. For both, love feels like a risk. But when the future only starts to make sense with each other, it might be time to follow their hearts... Praise for Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words: "LOVE, CHAI, AND OTHER FOUR LETTER WORDS is a delight... As warm and comforting as perfect masala chai."—Farah Heron, author of Accidentally Engaged "Captivating."—Library Journal, STARRED Review "Not-to-be-missed."—Booklist, STARRED Review

An essential work for readers seeking compassionate, wise guidance about the powerful relationship between mothers and their sons and daughters. Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and brain development, Terri Apter, an internationally acclaimed psychologist and writer, unlocks the mysteries of this complicated bond. She showcases the five different types of difficult mother—the angry mother, the controlling mother, the narcissistic mother, the envious mother, and the emotionally neglectful mother—and explains the patterns of behavior seen in each type. Apter also explores the dilemma at the heart of a difficult relationship: why a mother has such a powerful impact on us and why we continue to care about her responses long after we have outgrown our dependence. She then shows how we can conduct an “emotional audit” on ourselves to overcome the power of the complex feelings a difficult mother inflicts. In the end this book celebrates the great resilience of sons and daughters of difficult mothers as well as acknowledging their special challenges.

A large segment of the population struggles with feelings of being detached from themselves and their loved ones. They feel flawed, and blame themselves. Running on Empty will help them realize that they're suffering not because of something that happened to them in childhood, but because of something that didn't happen. It's the white space in their family picture, the background rather than the foreground. This will be the first self-help book to bring this invisible force to light, educate people about it, and teach them how to overcome it.

For a decade, Amy Dickinson has been the Chicago Tribune's signature general advice columnist, helping readers with questions both personal and pressing. Ask Amy: Advice for Better Living is a collection of over 200 question-and-answer columns taken from 2011–2013. As the highly popular successor to the legendary Ann Landers, Dickinson answers readers' questions with care and attention, while also providing a plainspoken, straight-shooting dose of reality that often only comes to us from close friends. Dickinson's advice is rooted in honesty and trust, which is why so many readers turn to her for advice on their everyday lives and for maintaining healthy, lasting relationships. Ask Amy: Advice for Better Living is a testament to the empathetic counsel and practical common-sense tips that Dickinson has been distilling for years.