If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life.
In her 216-page book published by New Harbinger Publications in 2015, “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents,” clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable.
Gibson describes how such parents create a sense of neglect and offers ways people can heal from pain and confusion caused by childhood. She writes that by freeing yourself from parental emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react, and avoid disappointment. Gibson teaches how to create positive, new relationships to build a better life.
See: Dr. Lindsay Gibson’s website
