Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

Are you the child of toxic parents?

When you were a child...

• Did your parents tell you you were bad or worthless?
• Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you?
• Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems?
• Were you often frightened of your parents?
• Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?

Now that you’re an adult...

• Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child?
• Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending time with your parents?
• Do your parents control you with threats or guilt? Do they manipulate you with money?
• Do you feel that no matter what you do, it’s never good enough for your parents?

In this remarkable self-help guide, Dr. Susan Forward draws on case histories and the real-life voices of adult children of toxic parents to help you free yourself from the frustrating patterns of your relationship with your parents — and discover a new world of self-confidence, inner strength, and emotional independence.

• Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
• Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You
• Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
• Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
• Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage
• Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration
• The Toxic Parents Survival Guide: Recognizing, Understanding, and Freeing Yourself from These Difficult Relationships
• But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath
• Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy