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  • Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
  • Two popular psychotherapists explore narcissism in family of origin, unpacking the fallout from being raised by narcissistic parents, and offering strategies for how to heal.
  • Many emotionally abusive behaviors from parent to child have become socially acceptable because of the way we repeat things our parents said and did, things passed down from generation to generation that persist today.
  • You’re Not the Problem
  • enables us to recognize these behaviors and realize the profound impact they have had, and still have, and to see the patterns they form in our relationships with parents, partners and friends. It also shows us how to heal on a personal level but also on a societal level. The legacy and the damage caused by narcissistic and emotional abuse will carry on, perpetuated by trauma and repeating cycles, unless we learn to recognize and understand it, unless we as individuals and as a society learn how to challenge it and stop its vicious cycle of destructionwhich is what this book sets out to do. This book will explain and illustrate:
  • How to recognize emotional abuse in family relationships: its language and behaviors
  • How to recognize emotional abuse in family relationships: its language and behaviors
  • The immediate and long term impact of these behaviors
  • The immediate and long term impact of these behaviors
  • Strategies for healing
  • Strategies for healing
  • How to avoid repeating these behaviors
  • How to avoid repeating these behaviors
  • Using client narratives and sample scripts, Villiers and McKenna offer a compassionate, sympathetic approach to looking at our familial patternsand how we can break free from these toxic relationships and reclaim our lives.
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