| Title | : | Breaking from Your Parents: Setting a New Precedent for Your Life and Our Species |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 182 |
| Publication | : | First published January 30, 2014 |
The book explores such topics as confronting parents, dealing with siblings, becoming financially independent, doing self-therapy to strengthen ourselves, grieving our losses, dealing with the world’s judgments and negative pressures, healing our childhood traumas, making respectful friends and living a healthy lifestyle. The book is direct, straightforward and supportive—and takes the point of view that there can be great value for us all in our taking distance from our parents.
Breaking from Your Parents: Setting a New Precedent for Your Life and Our Species Reviews
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Check out Daniel Mackler's youtube channel. This man helped me realize my full potential.
I wish he would write more books
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Skip this cultish, egotistic navel-gazer
After having to go no contact with my family of origin, I was desperate to find something to help me begin to heal from the pain and betrayal I was feeling. With money tight, I got this since it was inexpensive. BIG MISTAKE.
The author claims to have been abused, and yet his attitude comes off as a judgemental, egotistic, know it all. His myopic view of the world is a glum one indeed. No wonder he, his friends, and "patients" (ironic he is a therapist when none are worthwhile in his standards) are still struggling with healing, instead of living, and are ambivalent about their feelings where their parents are concerned.
I know abuse is real, it is serious, and child abuse is horrible. This is NOT the book to read to find healing. Even if this book were free, it is best to go with a well respected author. Some I have found are Alice Miller, Danu Morrigan, and SpartanLifecoach. May you find healing from your pain. -
Honestly, a pretty drastic story and author who experienced some worse and more physical abuse from his parents. If you read this, keep in mind he puts a large emphasis on your inner child, and that it's ok to completely cut your parents out of your life over just about anything. Had some spelling and grammatical errors, too, unfortunately.
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Very interesting, thought provoking book. Definitely helps me reconsider what healthy aspects of my relationship with my parents has looked like, and what parts to work on.
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As an adult child of an alcoholic I've spent the past 2 years focusing on my mental health with the help of a great therapist. Slowly but surely I became strong enough to break from my extremely toxic parents. At the moment of the break I was looking for a book that could help with processing, to see what will come after this, the biggest and most important step in my life. I wanted to know how the people around me will react, just to see what I can expect happening on the way ahead.
I was surprised that there are just very few books about this topic.
I know the books Toxic parents, Adult children of alcoholics etc., but they do not focus on breaking from the parents.
I am very thankful for Daniel Mackler for writing this book.
All the feelings this book gave me:
- comfort, as I am not the only one who goes through this (I know in theory we know all this, but in practice it's just different)
- understanding that the biggest part of the society will just simply never accept that we break from the parents, and he explains why
- eye-opener, I always knew I am very strong to make this step, but he emphasizes how strong we are just because we were able to break from our parents.
The book helped me a lot while reading, and now that I've finished I think this was the most helpful book I've bought so far. It is a must read if you are thinking about breaking from your toxic parents, and also if you've already done that.
