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p00k's review against another edition
I read this book many years ago when it was recommended by a psychologist who met me in a work training session and recognised I had all the symptoms of being raised by toxic parents. He also asked me if I'd like to talk more in a pro bono session. I did. He and this book changed my life - it really did. I can't recommend it highly enough. The words that really set me free were, "You must let go of the responsibility for the painful events of your childhood and put it where it belongs."
aujhaaye's review against another edition
4.0
This book was suggested to me by a counselor years ago. I read about half of it & then stopped. I picked it back up this year & I am glad I did. There is a lot of good information in this book that covers a wide span of topics relating to your upbringing.
maybookworld's review against another edition
4.0
Informative reading, painful at some points. You might want to consider reading it while you are going to therapy. But it feels like the book left me high and dry, with a lot of unanswered questions.
professorcrow's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
gabrielee's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest and Sexual assault
codalion's review against another edition
3.0
Hmm. This is very on-point in concept but mostly targeted to people unable or unwilling to accept that their parents are toxic and damaging--for people with obviously toxic and damaging families, it has less to offer. And of course, it's a self-help book, so it's workmanlike on the sentence level, talks down to the reader a bit psychologically, et cetera: still, I'm not discounting the value of the concepts to people who really need them, and to some extent it's validating just to have them reinforced, even in so obvious a fashion.