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Not Like My Mother: Becoming A Sane Parent After Growing Up In A Crazy Family (2008)

by Irene Tomkinson(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1434322637 (ISBN13: 9781434322630)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Authorhouse

review 1: A brutally honest account of the authors' own personal life..., how she's being raised in a typical catholic family and from there on everything goes wrong. Her parents are broken, she's broken & she goes on to choose the wrong husband, her parenting skills are not the best & she gets caught up in a vicious cycle of substance abuse & alcohol. I loved this book because the author tells it like it is..., she never sugar-coat her life, she attends endless seminars, 12 step recovery programs, therapy & at the end she is like "I get it now, I know what went wrong" and I am willing to share it with you. Honestly & bravely told!
review 2: While this book was primarily a walk through the author's past into her present, it also offers up a guide for digging through your... more own 'unfinished' childhood. Hurt, rejection, pain, abandonment, longing- these are carried from our own history and we try to create the opposite of what we knew in our childhood for our children. Unfortunately, this cycle is counter intuitive as our children are not us, and we are not our children. Simply flopping our experiences to the 'better side' will not create a better childhood for our children. We must be present, in THEIR here and now, not floundering in our past. Interesting read that don't force depth of soul searching, it simply allows for it. I dare anyone to read this book and not find some of their own truth in the authors reflection. less

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