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Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Susan Forward

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cal_rykardt's review

4.0

Some useful reading here.
As an adult child of a toxic-mother and passive enabling father, some of the scenarios here rang true with me.

I don't think the book itself is a one-stop shop to reclaiming your life, but I think it would be very helpful in tandem with counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy.

There are handy insights and a couple of exercises that are quite cathartic. - I enjoyed writing the "Fairytale" so much that I'm turning this into fully fledged tale about the recovery from a torrid childhood

Again - it won't give you all the answers in order to move on, but it will perhaps help you break the cycle.

clubsanwich's review

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emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

moaihallen's review

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5.0

Boken räddade mitt liv!!

lindsayb's review

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3.0

There's some useful stuff in here, but you have to wade through a bit of the normcore-of-the-early-00s-ish-ness. It could really benefit from an updated edition.

mikecnorthrup's review

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5.0

This book does a fantastic job of helping adult children of toxic parents identify the fact that their parents are, in fact, toxic. Further, the reader walks away a with tangible action items on how to unweave the damage and move forward with their lives. I read it in hopes that it would be of help to me, but found that I am further along in the healing process than I gave myself credit for.