Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut

Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut

Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut

Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut

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Overview

Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate guide will help you embrace your decision with a sense of pride, validation, and faith in yourself; and provides powerful tools for creating boundaries, coping with judgment, and overcoming self-doubt.

Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You’re not alone. Severing ties with a family member can be devastating; and cutting this toxic person out of your life may bring up feelings of guilt and uncertainty—especially if you feel judged by others regarding your decision. Fortunately, you can free yourself from this toxic family member in a healthy, responsible, and liberating way.

In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic-family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You’ll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride and acknowledgement of your self-worth. You’ll learn how to let go of negative thoughts and feelings. And finally, you’ll develop the skills needed to rediscover self-care, self-love, self-reliance, and healthy loving relationships.

Whether you’re ready to sever ties with a toxic family member, or already have, this book will help guide you, every step of the way.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684039289
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 04/01/2022
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 214,609
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sherrie Campbell, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping healthy people cut ties with the toxic people in their lives. She is a nationally recognized expert on family estrangement, an inspirational speaker, a social media influencer, and a regularly featured media expert. She is host of the podcast, Sherapy Sessions, and author of Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members.


Wendy T. Behary, LCSW, is founder and clinical director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey, founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and author Disarming the Narcissist.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Introduction: You Have Permission 1

Part 1 Making Peace with Your Decision 7

1 Understand That Severing Ties Is Self-Protection 9

2 Why You Still Hurt 17

3 See Boundaries as Good to Have 25

4 The Critical Need to Grieve 37

5 The Social Void of Broken Family Bonds 45

Part 2 Your Personal Healing Is Now Possible 59

6 The Core Wounds of Self-Doubt and Unworthiness 61

7 How Toxic Shame Develops 77

8 Leave Toxic Shame Behind 91

9 Emotional Loneliness and Feelings of Disconnection 115

10 Emerge from Feeling Broken 125

11 Moving Toward Empathy and Self-Love 137

12 The Path to Your Deepest, Most Lasting Connection 149

Part 3 Practical Ways to Handle the Aftermath 157

13 Family Members Can Continue to Be Vindictive 159

14 Handling Secondary Abuse: Gifts and Cards, Financial Abuse, and Family Illness and Death 163

15 The Dirty Work of Using People, Holidays, Social Media, and Major Events 177

16 Protecting Valuable Relationships with Nontoxic Family Members 185

Conclusion: The Liberation of Self-Reliance 195

Acknowledgments 207

Endnotes 209

Interviews

Campbell resides in Irvine, CA.

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