A review by nyarasha
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb

3.0

This book has several useful nuggets of information about managing emotions, self-care, and so on. It also helped explain some of my self-criticism / self-indulgence cycles, and described some of how I felt disconnected and continue to avoid dependence on anyone.

That being said, it repeated the same ideas a lot (not what is there, but what is not there - this is an example used a lot). The author also mentions relationships as friendships or marriage,as though there is nothing in between, which I found quite alienating.

Overall, a decent read for ideas, a bit repetitive, a bit condescending, and a bit alienating.