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Untangling your childhood

Our parents are a huge deal: no matter what our relationship to them happens to be, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes to work, our self-esteem) is crucially determined by our families of origin.

Following on from the bestselling How To Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide on how to navigate the complex legacies left to us by our parents. By exploring different types of parents, such as The Preoccupied Parent, The Overprotective Parent and The Controlling Parent, it gives us a vocabulary with which to understand some of the stranger and more difficult things that parents sometimes do to their children, as well as advice on how to move forward from our puzzles or confusions. The emphasis is never on blame, always on understanding.

Offering constructive solutions for dealing with the symptoms of a difficult childhood, this book helps us to explore the past so that we can avoid the mistakes our parents made, and secure for ourselves the more creative, calm and loving future we deserve.

Hardback book | 224 pages | 180mm x 125mm

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Customer Reviews (4.6 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Nicholas W. ★★★★★

I didn't expect a book to explain why I react the way I do at work, but the section on self-esteem and its roots hit uncomfortably close. It's a heavy read in the best way, and I keep going back to reread certain pages.

Scarlett X. ★★★★★

Read this one evening after a particularly tense call with my mother and it felt like someone finally explained the wiring behind my reactions. The way it breaks down how we carry our parents into our self-esteem and relationships is painfully accurate, but the structure makes it easy to digest with

Stella ★★★★★

The chapters on work attitudes and self-esteem hit uncomfortably close to home, in the best way. It’s structured so each section stands alone, which made it easy to revisit specific topics without re-reading everything. I finished it feeling lighter and far less alone in my patterns.

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