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Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence by Lindsay C. Gibson
Did not finish book.
DNFed at 62%.
Couldn't get through the whole "Parents, your child is/will be so and so" part and, at that point, I was rolling my eyes so hard every paragraph that I couldn't just powerthrough and get to the rest.
Girlie, stop, you're making a fool of yourself talking about zoomers like you know the inner self of ANY of them, idolizing your problematic faves like the Dalai Lama or Ceasar Millan, talking about alphas like it's a thing or the whole extrovert/introvert child behavior. This is giving pseudo science, or even psychopop bs (yeah, not the good kind). Not to be ageist, but seriously tho, how old are you? And not only that, but are you actually TRYING to understand people just a tiny bit younger than you, like at all? Are you listening to them or just hearing them/talking at them? My therapist is not young, yet when I tell her about the world I live in, with my millenial reality and dipped in my zoomers friends' one as well, she asks questions instead of putting all of us into this paint-by-number canvas build by fuckos who cry over their glory days of yore.
Not saying I didn't get some quotes here and there, some food for thoughts on my own path of mental healing and childhood trauma stuff. But oof. Not enough to salvage the whole thing. I'm going to give the author another chance some day and check out the actual book everyone is talking about, the one before this who hasn't "self-care" in the title (though this here book doesn't have much self-care inside it either). Because yeah no, this one just ain't it.
The whole construction as well, the very short snippets of "wisdom"? Not the best. It's giving messy vibes and that's not what the title advertises, at all. Ngl, I thought I was going to get much more even though I saw some of the reviews, and I should have listened. I should have dnf-ed it after about 40%. The last 22% were close to being dogshit.
I said what I said.
Couldn't get through the whole "Parents, your child is/will be so and so" part and, at that point, I was rolling my eyes so hard every paragraph that I couldn't just powerthrough and get to the rest.
Girlie, stop, you're making a fool of yourself talking about zoomers like you know the inner self of ANY of them, idolizing your problematic faves like the Dalai Lama or Ceasar Millan, talking about alphas like it's a thing or the whole extrovert/introvert child behavior. This is giving pseudo science, or even psychopop bs (yeah, not the good kind). Not to be ageist, but seriously tho, how old are you? And not only that, but are you actually TRYING to understand people just a tiny bit younger than you, like at all? Are you listening to them or just hearing them/talking at them? My therapist is not young, yet when I tell her about the world I live in, with my millenial reality and dipped in my zoomers friends' one as well, she asks questions instead of putting all of us into this paint-by-number canvas build by fuckos who cry over their glory days of yore.
Not saying I didn't get some quotes here and there, some food for thoughts on my own path of mental healing and childhood trauma stuff. But oof. Not enough to salvage the whole thing. I'm going to give the author another chance some day and check out the actual book everyone is talking about, the one before this who hasn't "self-care" in the title (though this here book doesn't have much self-care inside it either). Because yeah no, this one just ain't it.
The whole construction as well, the very short snippets of "wisdom"? Not the best. It's giving messy vibes and that's not what the title advertises, at all. Ngl, I thought I was going to get much more even though I saw some of the reviews, and I should have listened. I should have dnf-ed it after about 40%. The last 22% were close to being dogshit.
I said what I said.