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Genre/Form: | Self-help publications Livres de croissance personnelle |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sherrie Campbell |
ISBN: | 9781684039289 1684039282 |
OCLC Number: | 1260665230 |
Description: | viii, 210 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Part 1. Making peace with your decision -- Understand that severing ties is self-protection -- Why you still hurt -- See boundaries as good to have -- The critical need to grieve -- The social void of broken family bonds -- Part 2. Your personal healing is now possible -- The core wounds of self-doubt and unworthiness -- How toxic shame develops -- Leave toxic shame behind -- Emotional loneliness and feelings of disconnection -- Emerge from feeling broken -- Moving toward empathy and self-love -- The path to your deepest, most lasting connection -- Part 3. Practical ways to handle the aftermath -- Family members can continue to be vindictive -- Handling secondary abuse: gifts and cards, financial abuse, and family illness and death -- The dirty work of using people, holidays, social media, and major events -- Protecting valuable relationships with nontoxic family members. |
Responsibility: | Sherrie Campbell, PhD. |
Abstract:
"For many people, cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and well-being. In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist Sherrie Campbell offers readers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member and provides powerful tools to help them heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma"--
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