A review by lauraliz914
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb, Christine Musello

emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

This is such a great treatise on emotional neglect, and I so appreciate Webb’s work to get this incredibly important issue to the forefront of the psychological world. I treat mostly complex trauma in my private practice as a therapist, and the detrimental role of emotional neglect in people’s lives runs deep. This book explains how and why, and I’m grateful it exists. 

My only issue with the book is Webb’s CBT approach to healing. In my experience, we don’t solve nervous system problems with prefrontal cortex solutions. Nonetheless, I will recommend this to clients because the education is so good.