silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
4.0
I feel the need to start this review by clarifying that my parents are NOT and never have been alcoholics!
This book was recommended to me as helpful in generally understanding the impact of traumatic/dysfunctional situations on children, and how it affects their thoughts, feelings and decisions as they get older. In that context, I think everyone could benefit from reading this book (or at least the first two sections), because even those without difficult childhoods will likely interact with at LEAST one person in their lives who is struggling with the effects of a difficult childhood. The first two sections do a good job of laying out the kinds of struggles involved, what's unusually difficult, and why.
I don't agree with everything about where the author is coming from, but the first two sections are nearly five stars for me, being very practical and mostly just descriptive of how things are. The third section, on how to improve in each of these areas has some helpful, practical advice, but also requires more discernment and thinking through which parts are just opinions that might have better approaches. The fourth section is less generally applicable, as it's parenting advice, and is again a mix of practical advice and just opinion.
This book was recommended to me as helpful in generally understanding the impact of traumatic/dysfunctional situations on children, and how it affects their thoughts, feelings and decisions as they get older. In that context, I think everyone could benefit from reading this book (or at least the first two sections), because even those without difficult childhoods will likely interact with at LEAST one person in their lives who is struggling with the effects of a difficult childhood. The first two sections do a good job of laying out the kinds of struggles involved, what's unusually difficult, and why.
I don't agree with everything about where the author is coming from, but the first two sections are nearly five stars for me, being very practical and mostly just descriptive of how things are. The third section, on how to improve in each of these areas has some helpful, practical advice, but also requires more discernment and thinking through which parts are just opinions that might have better approaches. The fourth section is less generally applicable, as it's parenting advice, and is again a mix of practical advice and just opinion.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism
Minor: Sexual content
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