Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict

The book "Rules of Estrangement" provides guidance for parents who are dealing with estrangement from their adult children, offering empathy and understanding for both parties and teaching strategies for reconciliation and healing.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 320 pages
\n Publication date: 04 March 2021
\n Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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Has your adult child cut off contact with you? How can you heal the pain and start to build a bridge back to them? Labelled a silent epidemic by a growing number of therapists and researchers, estrangement is one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life. Popular opinion typically tells a one-sided story of parents who got what they deserved or overly entitled adult children who wrongly blame their parents. However, the reasons for alienation are far more complex and varied. As a result of rising rates of individualism, an increasing cultural emphasis on happiness, growing economic insecurity, and a historically recent perception that parents are obstacles to personal growth, many parents find themselves forever shut out of the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. As a trusted psychologist whose own daughter cut off contact for several years and eventually reconciled, Dr Joshua Coleman is uniquely qualified to guide parents in navigating these fraught interactions. He helps to alleviate the ongoing feelings of shame, hurt, guilt, and sorrow that commonly attend these dynamics. By placing estrangement into a cultural context, Dr Coleman helps parents better understand the mindset of their adult children and teaches them how to implement the strategies for reconciliation and healing that he has seen work in his forty years of practice.

Rules of Estrangement gives parents the language and the emotional tools to engage in meaningful conversation with their child, the framework to cultivate a healthy relationship moving forward, and the ability to move on if reconciliation is not possible.

This book is a must-read for any parent who is struggling with the loss of a child or who is trying to repair a broken relationship with their adult child. It provides a roadmap for navigating the complex terrain of estrangement and offers hope and healing for those who are willing to do the work.

In conclusion, if you are a parent who is dealing with estrangement, I highly recommend reading Rules of Estrangement. It is a powerful and insightful book that can help you to understand the dynamics of estrangement, heal the pain, and build a healthy relationship with your adult child.

\n Weight: 388g\n
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781529350821\n \n