Reconnecting with Your Estranged Adult Child: Practical Tips and Tools to Heal Your Relationship [Paperback]

Parents whose adult children have cut off contact wonder:How did this happen? Where did I go wrong? What happened to my loving child?Over time, holidays, birthdays, and even the birth of grandchildren may pass in silence. Anguish may turn into anger. While time, in and of itself, does not necessarily heal, actions do, and while every estrangement includes situation-specific variables, there are practical, effective, and universal techniques for understanding and healing these not-uncommon breaches.

Psychotherapist Tina Gilbertson has developed these techniques and tools over years of face-to-face and online work with parents, who have found her strategies transformative and even life-changing. Gilbertson cuts through the blame, shame, and guilt on both sides of the broken relationship. Parents will feel heard and understood but also challenged — and guided — to reclaim their role as “tone setter” and grow psychologically. Exercises, examples, and sample scripts empower parents who have felt powerless. Gilbertson shows that reconciliation is a step-by-step process, but the effort is well worth it. It is never too late to renew relations and experience better-than-ever bonds.CAA comprehensive and compassionate guide to healing the rifts between parents and adult children from a foremost expertTina Gilbertson, MA, LPC,is a licensed professional counselor specializing in family estrangement. She has been quoted in hundreds of media outlets, includingFast Company, theNew York Times, theWashington Post, theChicago Tribune, andReal Simple. She hosts theReconnection Club Podcast.“A helpful roadmap for estranged families.”
— Jane Isay, author ofWalking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents

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