Hi,
http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Yourse.../dp/B0037BS2NG
Here is a book called
Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression by John Lee.
A few years ago, hubby's therapist told him to get this little book. It is helpful.
Quote:
We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional regression to the general reader, bestselling author John Lee identifies the circumstances that cause these seemingly uncontrollable feelings and shows how they are directly tied to our experience as children.
No adult, explains Lee, need ever experience the helpless feelings of childhood again. Here are his proven methods and visualization exercises, developed in his popular workshops, for recognizing, preventing, and diffusing regression in ourselves and others.
He teaches, for example, that adults cannot be abandoned, they can only be left; if we're feeling abandoned we're regressing. He also reminds us that no matter how overwhelmed we are, adults always have options; if we believe we don't, we're in a regression.
Growing Yourself Back Up will show you how to:
* develop strong emotional boundaries and convey them to others
* learn the Detour Method that reverses regression
* confront without regressing
* communicate with the authority figures who push your buttons
* minimize regression at family function
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The book talks about how we learned to respond to abandonment as children. We can learn how to respond to the same issues and same people in different ways now that we are adults.
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