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At age four, Diana manages her family's banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana's narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him. Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad.

Forgiveness can often be perceived as saccharine and overtly religious, something just for the spiritually superior or mentally strong. But really it is a gritty, risky concept that is so often relevant to our ordinary everyday lives. Forgiveness explores the subject from every angle, coming from a place of enquiry rather than persuasion, presenting it as an offering, never a prescription. Marina Cantacuzino seeks to investigate, unpick and debate the limits and possibilities of forgiveness.

Develop healthier and better relationships today! Experience improved relationship fulfillment and unlock the best strategy for secure attachment styles in your relationships. Do you want to develop better and healthier relationships with your loved ones? Would you like to understand yourself better and be more satisfied with your life? Are you looking to break free from being avoidant and start opening up more to create long-lasting and fulfilling relationships? Then this book was made just for you.

Growing up in Malibu California in the 1970s and '80s, J.C. had what looked like a charmed life. He was the class clown and multi-star athlete, who lived in a big house on a hill overlooking the ocean. And yet J.C.'s childhood was hardly an enviable one. As the youngest of four kids, he fought hard for his family's approval, especially from his hyper-competitive, larger-than-life father, and highly critical siblings. His best efforts were never enough. His mistakes were magnified, his successes mocked or ignored.

If you have even an inkling that you may be affected by emotional abuse, you owe it to yourself to take action...but that can seem easier said than done when you find yourself falling for manipulation tactics over and over again. But there are steps you can take to break free of the cycle and set foot on the road to healing and recovery…and this guide will be by your side every step of the way. As soon as you suspect that someone in your life is doing you more harm than good, it’s time to take action.

By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family—the only people she had in the world—began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere.

Do you struggle with your childhood trauma? Are you feeling lost in life and believe the future is bleak? You always believe you’re not good enough and you don’t deserve nice things or good people in your life. This isn’t your fault. You've been in survival mode for too long. This can be trauma inflicted on you from your childhood and you haven’t given yourself chance to heal. Until now. How to Heal from Toxic Parents is the first step forward. The time has come to now understand your thoughts and behavior patterns so as to move forward with a positive outlook.

This is an account of real-life abuse by a narcissist, love bomber, coercive controller, and a horrible and abusive man. It is told with name changes to protect victims, so it reflects real events in a fictional way. It has been published in the hope that victims will recognize what is happening to them, or perhaps their friends will see what has occurred in somebody’s life that has changed them for the worse. This story has a serious purpose.

This author tells the true story of his younger life of physical abuse and extreme mental abuse that was imposed upon him by an unstable stepdad on a daily basis. In this book, the author shares raw events from his abuse that occurred when he was 10 years old to about 15 years old, and the only safe place he could sometimes escape to was his grandma's house and the local church whenever he was allowed to attend.

According to Forbes, 80 percent of Americans consider their family dysfunctional. Family ties are fundamental to our emotional and psychological makeup. Unfortunately, growing up in a dysfunctional family is so common that most people don’t know what a happy, normal family looks like. You’re here to live fully, discover your own path, and live a life free of the torment of past experiences. In Changing the Narrative of Your Life, you will discover how to alleviate your childhood trauma without spending thousands of dollars on therapists.

Leaving home was not easy for Irene Sardanis. Born into a Greek family in the Bronx in the 1940s, she was the youngest child of an unhappy mother and a father who drank, gambled, and enjoyed other women—and then, when Irene was 11, abandoned the family altogether. Irene's older siblings found a way out, but Irene was trapped, held hostage to her mother's rage and despair. When she finally escaped her mother as a young adult, she married a Greek man who controlled and dominated her just like her mother always had. But Irene wasn't ready to let her story end there.

Bekhal Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in London in 1998. When Bekhal's father tried to force her into an arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to ‘lose respect’ within the Kurdish community and Bekhal became the target of an honour killing and her younger sisters Banaz and Payzee were quickly married off to restore the family's reputation. When Banaz left her husband, Mahmod decided this 'shame' to the family meant Banaz must die. Within weeks, she had vanished.

At 47 years old, I made the decision to raise my voice and tell my story of sexual abuse at the age of nine, a reality that affects millions of people in the Latino community and that, in many cases, they manage to overcome as trauma that leaves many scars. I wrote the book Yo Digo No Más because I know firsthand the ups and downs that an episode of abuse can generate in a person, no matter their age, race, origin, or color. I was fortunate to find the tools that allowed me to change my story into that of a successful businesswoman. I want to share these tools with you today.

Parenting is hard. It’s an unspoken contract to raise another human until they can act like an adult. Hopefully, one that doesn’t suck. To rise to the challenge, we might attempt to take the good aspects of what our parents modeled as we simultaneously try to eradicate or change the bad. This book will help you reduce the failures and the impending impact by introducing ideas and principles you may never have considered and weren’t likely modeled for you. Finding the balance and blessing in the muck and mire of parenting is the target. You can do this! You are capable.

Joanne Phillips’ ordeal began aged 13 when she was gang-raped in her bedroom by local boys. Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was raped by over 500 men, starved, beaten, and transported around the country to brothels. Forced to have sex with men from all walks of life including lawyers, stockbrokers, doctors, a parish councillor, Joanne was even made to have sex with her former school headteacher—who didn’t recognise her.

Wer mit sich selbst und seiner Umwelt im Reinen ist, hat gute Chancen auf ein selbstbestimmtes und erfülltes Leben. Der narzisstische Missbrauch in jungen Jahren beeinflusst Menschen weit ins Erwachsenenalter und hemmt diese in vielerlei Hinsicht. Speziell Töchter narzisstisch veranlagter Mütter haben sehr unter geringem Selbstwertgefühl und dergleichen zu kämpfen. In diesem Ratgeber werden wir dem Narzissmus auf die Spur kommen um selbst zu verstehen was die Beweggründe für eine Mutter sein könnten sich so ihren Kinder gegenüber zu verhalten wie diese es tun.

This book is for parents who are no longer together and have a minor child (or children). It emphasizes ways to focus on the child amidst any conflicts and/or controversies the parents may have. Among other things, it discusses how (i) the child may feel obligated to choose one parent over the other; (ii) certain behaviors of the parents can affect the child's self esteem and confidence; etc. This book illustrates effective ways to coparent that results in the child ultimately having a healthy, physical, and emotional well-being.

Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for mothers who are confronted with the unexpected and burdensome dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment. Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers accessible, provocative, and, at times, shocking illustrations of the excruciating maternal dilemma: Which takes precedence—the needs of the mother or of the distressed adult child? Difficult addresses a family situation which too many keep secret.

Der narzisstische Vater - emotionaler Schaden ein Leben lang? Würden Sie ihren Vater als narzisstisch einstufen? Leiden Sie selbst als Erwachsener noch an den Folgen einer toxischen Erziehung? Haben Sie sich auch lange bemüht, Ihrem Vater alles recht zu machen und so seine Anerkennung zu verdienen? Und er war trotzdem nie zufrieden und auch viel abwesend und hat sich Ihnen eigentlich nur zugewandt, wenn Sie etwas geschafft hatten oder andere es sehen konnten.

Aus Angst vor Ablehnung stellen manche Menschen ihre Bedürfnisse immer wieder hintenan. Auch schaffen sie es häufig nicht, sich aus Beziehungen zu lösen, selbst dann nicht, wenn sie nur noch belastend ist. Anhand des Grimm'schen Märchens "Die Gänsemagd" beleuchtet Heinz-Peter Röhr die Hintergründe krankhafter emotionaler Abhängigkeit. Er schickt seine Hörer zunächst auf eine Verstehens-Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit, bevor er mit ihnen den Weg der Heilung beschreitet. Ein einfühlsamer Ratgeber für alle, die die Regie im eigenen Leben endlich selbst übernehmen wollen.