Getting Over Your Parents

<b>Our parents are a huge deal: and no matter our relationship to them, who we are today (our love stories, our attitudes, our self-esteem) is crucially connected to our relationships with our origin families.</b><p></p><p><span>Following on from the bestselling </span><i>How To Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents </i><span>is a practical guide on how to navigate the complex legacies left to us by our parents, and how to parent ourselves. B</span><span>y </span><span>e</span><span>xploring different types of parents, such as “The Preoccupied Parent”, “The Overprotective Parent”’ and “The Controlling Parent”, i</span><span>t offers a vocabulary to understand some of the stranger and more difficult things that parents sometimes do to their children, </span><span>as well as giving advice on how to move forward from our puzzles or confusions. The emphasis is never on blame, always on understanding. </span><br></p><p></p><p><span>Offering constructive solutions for dealing with the symptoms of a difficult childhood, t</span><span>his book helps us to explore the past so that we can </span><span>avoid the mistakes our parents made, and </span><span>secure for ourselves the more creative, calm and loving future we deserve.</span></p><p></p><p></p>