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  • When Parents Hurt

  • Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along
  • Written by: Joshua Coleman PhD
  • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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When Parents Hurt

Written by: Joshua Coleman PhD
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
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Publisher's Summary

This unique book supports parents who are struggling with the heartache of having a teenager or an adult child who is troubled, angry, or distant. Such rifts can cause unspeakable sorrow that parents too often must bear alone. Psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, PhD, offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parents they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with their child.

Through case examples and healing exercises, Dr. Coleman helps parents:

  • Reduce anger, guilt, and shame
  • Learn how temperament, the teen years, their own or a partner's mistakes, and divorce can strain the parent-child bond
  • Come to terms with their own and their child's imperfections
  • Understand how society's high expectations of parents contribute to the risk of parental wounds

By helping parents recognize what they can do and let go of what they cannot, Dr. Coleman helps families develop more positive ways of healing themselves and relating to each other.

©2008 Joshua Coleman, PhD (P)2016 Tantor

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I have been searching for something to help me for some time. Read many books. This one really resonated. I will add these tools to my tool box.
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This book gave me so much insight to so many emotions, reactions, and behaviors that I have struggled to understand. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I will definitely be listening to this one repeatedly!!!

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can not get into it

The overall info is somewhat good the issue it I can not get into listening to robotic

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