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Running on Empty

Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

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Running on Empty

By: Christine Musello PsyD, Jonice Webb PhD
Narrated by: Karen White
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Do you sometimes feel as if you're just going through the motions in life? Are you good at looking and acting as if you're fine, but secretly feel lonely and disconnected? If so, you are not alone. The world is full of people who have an innate sense that something is wrong with them - who feel they live on the outside looking in, but have no explanation for this feeling and no way to put it into words.

If you are one of these people, you may fear that you are not connected enough to your spouse, or that you don't feel pleasure or love as profoundly as others do. You may drink too much, or eat too much, or risk too much, in an attempt to feel something good.

Running on Empty will give you clear strategies for how to heal, and offers a special chapter for mental-health professionals. In the world of human suffering, this book is an emotional smart bomb meant to eradicate the effects of an invisible enemy.

©2013 Jonice Webb, PhD (P)2015 Tantor Abuse Emotions Personal Development Personal Success Relationships Mental Health Health Childhood Trauma Emotional Trauma
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content was enlightening but narrating lacked passion in presentation. overall though a good audio book to listen to.

enlightening content

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great and insightful and helped me understand alot more about my self, recommended by my therapist to me

if you feel numb this is for you

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I felt like this book was talking to me personally in many ways. The author has made every effort to keep the discussion from sounding like a psychology lecture, and more like an individual session.

Very relatable and easy to understand.

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This made sense. Within the overview you will know if it's right for you too. A great help to finally get over that barrel.

Bang on for me

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I liked the narrator ab's the stories. I would recommend going to the website and printing off the worksheets to do the activities.

Great information, great reading

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The deepest self help book ever.
Now I need to re-read & do the questionnaires.
So exciting, I feel this will heal my issues from
5 years old, & it is a great eye opener.
Thank you for giving me this tool.

Fantastic ,

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I'm having problems with patience in reading a book lately - so the audio format and it's chapter breakups and audible configurations worked for me. Your content hit the nail on some of my issues, helping me to IDENTIFY and UNDERSTAND deep-rooted reasons why I do or don't understand some of my feelings and actions. My therapists suggested this read. But above all, it was the PRACTICALITY , the native-ness , the "everyday-ness" , the "close-to-home-ness" examples that appealed to my learning process! I felt I have just been through my "personal therapy session" and now I will use this material again and again to install or amend emotional software in my life which my loving parents missed/neglected. There is so much value in allowing the material to sink-in.... and that is why I used the Narration Speed to good effect, speeding and slowing down the narration to suit the subject at hand according to my absorption rate. Many thanks

pRACTICAl

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This book really put a lot of the pieces together for me and articulated the things that I've struggled with that I was completely aware of. It gives some amazingly simple practical strategies for addressing them, too.

Complete revelation

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This book was recommended to me by my psychologist, it helped me to understand myself better and make set new goals in my therapy

Great book

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This book explains childhood emotional neglect in a very easy to understand, non-judgmental and non-sexist way. I have read a few books by psychologists and so I was positively surprised by that and very impressed.

There is a list of parenting styles and how they impact children with examples. I felt this was done great. I would personally break these (parenting styles) into chapters (on Audible) and **name them** for future reference - to re-listen if I wanted.

Narrator was ok 3/5

What I didn't like:
No chapter titles - so unprofessional and frustrating!!!

Good

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