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Toxic Parents

Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

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Toxic Parents

By: Craig Buck, Susan Forward
Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
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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.

©1989 Susan Forward (P)2011 Tantor Parents & Adult Children Dysfunctional Relationships Personal Development Child Abuse Parenting & Families Dysfunctional Families Abuse Relationships Inspiring

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"I consider Susan Forward to be among the foremost therapists of our age." (John Bradshaw, author of Healing the Shame That Binds You)
Valuable Healing Information • Insightful Therapeutic Approach • Excellent Voice Acting • Practical Recovery Tools

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Good information & highly relatable (personally). But admittedly hard to listen to, due to Narrator's too "scripted" and somewhat robotic diction.

Good info, but hard to listen to...

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covers most parent/child issues, gives explanations of how and why they exist including/dialogue/to/discuss/them/in/a/healthy/productive way. excellent

Incredibly insightful

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This book uses the author's years and years of professional experience and actual client dialog to state her case for the ideas she was presenting and provides thorough and effective methods of dealing with the harm caused by toxic parents. Best book I've read here so far!

Excellent Book!

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This book discusses in a completely straightforward manner of very realistic situations. I not only can identify myself in these situations, I also can envision how to seek help and encourage myself to live my life and develop genuine, honest relationships. It does not shy away from discussing the very realistic “setbacks” in relating to parents and family. I am very grateful for the honest advice that the author gives.

Powerful and impactful

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This book helped me to see the things that my parents have put myself and my siblings through in a different way. I even gained some insight as to how my behavior with my own children can cause long term effects if I do not work on myself now. I highly recommend this book to any families that have toxic parents or toxicity in themselves that need to be addressed.

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