That's Emotional Neglect: Healing From Emotional Abuse, A Memoir

By MA Getchius

(Previously published as That's My Mom by Jacqueline Getchius, MA, LPCC.)
What if the person who should provide the strongest emotional support was instead the most damaging?
Were your feelings dismissed, ignored, or met with anger, denial, or abandonment by your parent?

Readers are raving about this deeply moving memoir filled with heartfelt, honest storytelling and research-backed psychological truths. Psychotherapist Jacqueline Getchius, MA, LPCC offers a deeply personal portrait of the often invisible, but very real form of abuse--emotional neglect--because she's lived it herself. After becoming a therapist and then a mother, Jacqueline finds herself at a precipice-continue to allow the ripple effects of her mother's emotional neglect to rule her world or do an about-face and pave a path that she gets to decide. That's Emotional Neglect is a never-too-late story about the growth possible for anyone with the guts to try, and a testament to the redemptive power of love, therapy, and psychological connection.

A motivational and inspiring memoir meets self-help book on healing from the emotional neglect by your parent. Explore the psychological underpinnings of emotional abuse, narcissism, attachment, the "highly sensitive person", codependency, gaslighting, trauma, and triangulation, illustrating how to heal from the unseen wounds of neglect.

Born out of a lifetime of feelings of doubt, loneliness, and shame that emotional neglect can produce, this book will guide you to create the foundation for the loving and secure relationships you deserve. Because you are worthy-of self-discovery, authenticity, and boundless love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CKGSF3FT
• ISBN13: 9798863179001
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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