Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Daily Practices to Honor Your Emotions and Live with Confidence Paperback – 2 Dec. 2021

Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents is an insightful and empowering book that has been a valuable resource for anyone who has experienced the challenges of growing up with emotionally immature parents. The author provides practical tools and strategies for breaking free from past emotional patterns, healing, and building a stronger, more resilient sense of self.What I found particularly helpful was the focus on self-care. The book offers clear advice on how to set boundaries, manage emotional triggers, and prioritise your own well-being. It teaches you how to nurture your emotional health and take back control of your life, which is something I’ve found incredibly empowering.The book is written with compassion and understanding, acknowledging the pain of growing up with emotionally immature parents while offering hope and actionable steps for healing. It’s a great guide for those looking to understand the long-term effects of such a relationship and how to move forward in a healthier, more self-aware way.I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to reclaim their emotional autonomy and improve their well-being. It’s a transformative read that has had a significant positive impact on my own self-care journey.

Just what I needed. It totally changed my view of my self and my whole life.Never before have I understood my situation and by putting words to my experiences I finally got the help that I needed for so many years. Thanks, Linda Gibson for taking your time to write such an important and insightful manual for life.

Wow, this is a book I highly recommend to anyone who feels seen by the title... written in a sensible style it really explaines a lot about the dynamics that exist for people who grew up like this. I bought the self-help book too, can't wait to start that as well.

I was surprised by how insightful, helpful and inspiring I found this book. I had an 'a-ha' moment in every paragraph! A real gem for those of us who are determined to recover ourselves after the exhaustion of immature parents.

I read a chapter daily as part of my spiritual practice & I've grown & learned so much about what it means to be an emotionally mature person.

I tried to leave this review on Audible but evidently they are only interested in publishing positive reviews so I’ll try again here.Partway through the book the author sites Cesar Milan and his wisdom when it comes to dominance theory in training dogs. She loosely uses this to lead into justifying standing up for yourself and practising speaking when somebody is trying to overpower you. It is astonishing to see somebody who is supposed to understand the importance of positive reinforcement and behaviour science just blindly accept his outdated and abusive methods.Dominance theory is not a helpful way to frame dog training, You can ask anybody working in zoos today or anybody training Service dogs, search and rescue dogs, or detection dogs. Negative reinforcement permanently damages the relationship between a trainer and their learner, and it’s not okay for this author to use her platform to spread this misinformation that somehow your scared dog actually just needs to be physically punished and they’ll magically get over the thing that scaring them.It makes me seriously doubt her reasoning and for someone who is supposed to be an expert in the downfalls of consistently damaging a relationship with someone you’re supposed to be caring for, this just seems embarrassing.

I've read a bunch of Lindsay's books and they are all very helpful. This one is really great as it's split into bitesize sections to help with various things that affect adult children of emotionally immature parents.One of the reasons I really enjoyed this book as I don't have many friends who had similar upbringings and it's soothing to know someone understands what I went through and can offer advice to help me.