Siblings: The Ghosts of Childhood That Haunt Your Love and Work
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00TD04TVY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Understanding the quality and emotional tone of your childhood relationships provides a rich source of information about and explanations of who you are today and, perhaps equally important, the personal, work, and love issues you have bumped into over the years. In addition, how you related with your siblings in your early years can shape your children’s relationships with each other.
A must read for anyone struggling with life because of events in their childhood! Karen does a great job breaking down the importance of understanding the relationship between the problems we have today and the role of the negative relationships we had in our childhood with our siblings.It seems like things that happened decades ago in our past shouldn't be a problem for us today. However, that isn't the case. Those conflicts we had are still creating problems in our love, work, and friendships now.Karen moves from showing how these issues show up and how to diagnose which problem you have today are connected to your childhood or not. Finally, she gives a well wri. Leigh said If you are a sibling.read this book!. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is an adult still wondering why you don't completely understand why issues arise (and sometimes plague) sibling relationships. Dr. Lewis provides insights that we have missed, growing up in a time when psychotherapy and self-help books try to immerse us in ourselves and/or the shortcomings of our parents. The fact that our sibling relationships greatly shape how we relate to others has been sorely missed--until now. In addition to explaining why this is, Dr. Lewis shows us that our insights can pave the way to new behaviors, relationships, a. Practical, smart, great reframe rena As I read this book, I kept saying, that's me, that's us. I got a different perspective on why my siblings and I relate the way we do, even now as older adults. The book helped soften some of the painful encounters we've had, particularly around the care of our dying parents. Reading this book is helping me put language on why we act the way we do and how I contributed to our problems. I also have new ways to think about framing and breaking up my relationship patterns. I'm feeling optimistic about that. I also liked the sections on how these patterns show up at work and in friendshi