Stay Safe And Well (eBook)

Mom, Me, And Her OCD

Juliane Giordano (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
282 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
979-8-218-03453-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Anchored to both the author's more than 20 years of experience in Clinical Psychology and her own experience being raised by a severely OCD mother, this story of family and relationships blends the genres of memoir and self-help while retaining the classic and best elements of storytelling - the protagonist, the antagonist, plot, emotion, and journey.It is a story about the ways a mother's mental illness reverberates through a family, told from a compassionate perspective that doesn't withhold the painful truths necessary to an honest and realistic narrative. Parental mental illness is fundamentally damaging to a child's ability to grow and develop into a healthy, well adjusted adult, and OCD parenting in particular is damaging in unique and lasting ways that this book identifies and illustrates, and then directs the reader toward growth and healing.The author not only shares a story to which so many can relate, but also offers specific guidance to others navigating the healing journey to live a happier and more harmonious life, as she has done for herself and with her patients.

Inhalt

IntroductIon Meet The Parents

Chapter 1 Genesis

Chapter 2 A Starless Sea

Chapter 3 Girl Interrupted

Chapter 4 The Best Wallflower I Can Be

Chapter 5 Life on the Bottom Rungs: When a parent is too busy

Chapter 6 A Peculiar Bird

Chapter 7 A Family Portrait

Chapter 8 La Befana

Chapter 9 Italian Sacrilege

Chapter 10 And the Wheels Go Round and Round

Chapter 11 Mired in Stone

Chapter 12 The Not So Fun House

Chapter 13 Oven, Stove, Refrigerator

Chapter 14 A Thorn in the Paw

Chapter 15 Meryl's story

Chapter 16 Don't Believe Everything You Think

Chapter 17 A Political Detour: Managing Our Reactions

Chapter 18 Secrets, Sex, and Other Skeletons

Chapter 19 The Cycles of Love and Hate

Chapter 20 The Second Arrow

Chapter 21 No Good Deed...

Chapter 22 Full Circle

Epilogue Coming Home to Ourselves

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Healing • Jules • juliane • Juliane Giordano • Juli Giordano • Memoir • Mental Illness • mother • obsessive compulsive disorder • OCD • OCD obsessive compulsive disorder • parental mental illness • Psychology • Psychology memoir • Self Help • Trauma
• ISBN-13: 979-8-218-03453-5 / 9798218034535