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Healing the Family Wound
The relationship you did not choose. 4 guides, 159 pages between them, 54 citations.
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All 4 guides, as a set. Sold separately they come to $71.
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Good Enough
Letting Go of the Parents You Wish You'd Had
Your parent is alive, and the one you needed never arrived. This separates the parent who exists from the parent you kept hoping for, gives you permission to grieve someone still living, and argues that acceptance - not forgiveness - is what actually sets you free.
Written for: Adults with a living but emotionally absent or difficult parent, still caught between contact and cutoff
- 9 chapters in 3 parts plus intro and closing letter
- a reflection prompt at the end of most chapters
- unsent-letter and keep/end-list practices
- sources page p32-33
$19 · 33 pages · 10 citations · Ebook (reflection prompts, no worksheets) · on the Healing the Family Wound shelf
Inside the book — 3 pages. Tap one to read it.
The Parent Wound
Healing the Relationship That Shaped You
You feel your shoulders rise when their name lights up your phone. A gentle, staged path - naming the wound, seeing how it shows up in your adult life, grieving what never arrived, boundaries, reparenting, forgiveness on your own terms - ending in an honest look at what contact is possible now.
Written for: Adults who feel the tightness when a parent calls and want a gentle staged path rather than a clinical one
- 10 chapters
- the roles children adapt into
- familiar adult patterns
- grief chapter
- breaking the cycle
- boundaries chapter
- reparenting practices
- forgiveness-or-release distinction
- closing letter
- videos and resources page p31
- graded source list p32-34
$14 · 34 pages · 12 citations · Ebook (reflection prompts, no worksheets) · on the Healing the Family Wound shelf
Inside the book — 3 pages. Tap one to read it.
When Family Hurts
Recognizing, Surviving, and Healing from Toxic Relatives
You're trying to work out how much contact you can survive. What the harm actually is, six archetypes of family damage, why leaving is so hard - then boundaries that hold, the exact wording, the full low-contact to no-contact spectrum, and what life looks like on the other side.
Written for: Adults deciding how much contact to keep with a relative who keeps causing harm
- 12 chapters in 4 parts plus closing
- signs checklist
- six harm archetypes
- boundary scripts and broken-record lines
- low-contact / no-contact chapter
- grief and chosen-family chapters
- holiday and milestone lines
- resources and further help p34
- graded source list p36-38
$14 · 38 pages · 10 citations · Ebook (script field guide, no worksheets) · on the Healing the Family Wound shelf
Inside the book — 3 pages. Tap one to read it.
Reparenting Yourself
Making Peace With the Childhood You Got
Your childhood wasn't 'that bad' and something still went unmet. Four pillars build the steady inner parent - soothing, nurturing, structure, encouragement - then work through the grief, the apology that is never coming, and the rules you inherited. Closes with a 30-day daily practice.
Written for: Adults who had a 'not that bad' childhood that still left something unmet, and who want a self-directed practice rather than a trauma book
- 12 chapters in 3 parts
- Winnicott 'good enough' chapter
- four pillar chapters
- grief, end-the-wait and rewriting-inherited-rules chapters
- closing letter
- Thirty Days of Reparenting daily prompts p47-49
- graded source list p50-53
$24 · 54 pages · 22 citations · Ebook (reflection prompts + 30-day daily companion) · on the Healing the Family Wound shelf
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