Adult survivors of toxic family members : tools to maintain boundaries, deal with criticism, and heal from shame after ties have been cut
Campbell, Sherrie2022
Book
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.
Main title:
Adult survivors of toxic family members : tools to maintain boundaries, deal with criticism, and heal from shame after ties have been cut / Sherrie Campbell ; foreword by Wendy T. Behary.
Author:
Campbell, Sherrie, authorBehary, Wendy T., writer of foreword
Imprint:
Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2022]©2022.
Collation:
viii, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Part 1. Making peace with your decisionUnderstand that severing ties is self-protectionWhy you still hurtSee boundaries as good to haveThe critical need to grieveThe social void of broken family bondsPart 2. Your personal healing is now possibleThe core wounds of self-doubt and unworthinessHow toxic shame developsLeave toxic shame behindEmotional loneliness and feelings of disconnectionEmerge from feeling brokenMoving toward empathy and self-loveThe path to your deepest, most lasting connectionPart 3. Practical ways to handle the aftermathFamily members can continue to be vindictiveHandling secondary abuse: gifts and cards, financial abuse, and family illness and deathThe dirty work of using people, holidays, social media, and major eventsProtecting valuable relationships with nontoxic family members.
ISBN:
9781684039289 (paperback)
Dewey class:
158.24306.87
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
611119