Becoming Your Own Parent

Description for BECOMING YOUR OWN PARENT: THE SOLUTION FOR ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLIC AND OTHER DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES by Dennis Wholey:

This might be a book about you. If you grew up in a family where you weren't loved or weren't taught how to love yourself, chances are you're now struggling through life. You are not alone.

Millions of adults grew up in homes of alcoholism, workaholism, physical and sexual abuse, legal or illegal drug addiction, eating disorders, compulsive gambling, physical neglect, or emotional abandonment. Most of these people still carry deep scars from their childhood. If you grew up in one of these "dysfunctional family systems," you probably experience low self-esteem, harsh self-judgment, the inability to form healthy relationships, isolation, frustration, and depression. You may also be repeating the same addictions that existed in your family or be suffering from other compulsions.

This is a book about pain, yes; but it is also a book about hope and change. In BECOMING YOUR OWN PARENT you will meet fourteen courageous men and women from a variety of addictive and abusive family backgrounds who are overcoming the devastating effects of parental neglect by learning how to parent themselves.

Dennis Wholey takes you inside a series of group meetings of "adult children." Through the moving words of the group members and the help offered by a dozen top experts, you, too, will learn how it's possible to change your life. You'll identify the source of your problems, break your destructive behavior patters, and learn how to become a free and self-loving adult. BECOMING YOUR OWN PARENT offers you the opportunity to get from yourself the happiness you thought you had to get from something or someone else.