When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along [Paperback]

This unique book provides compassionate strategies to help parents work through the pain, shame, and sense of loss that they feel when dealing with family conflict or when their relationship with their older or adult children has not turned out as they hoped or expected.

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, we lose the opportunity to be the parent we desperately want to be and must mourn the loss of a harmonious relationship with an estranged adult child. Although this situation may seem hopeless,When Parents Hurtis a parenting guide designed to help us through this intensely difficult situation with compassion and thoughtfulness.

Through healing exercises and case examples, Dr. Joshua Coleman helps parents:

• Reduce anger, guilt, and shame
• Learn how temperament, the teen years, a partners or their own mistakes, and divorce can harm the parent-child bond
• Come to terms with their imperfections, as well as their childs
• Develop strategies for reaching out and for maintaining their self-esteem through trying times
• Understand how societys expectations contribute to the risk of parental wounds

By helping parents recognize what they can doand to let go of what they cannot controlWhen Parents Hurtoffers a clear path toward healing for parents and helps families develop more positive ways of relating to themselves and each other.

InWhen Parents Hurt, psychologist and parent Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., offers insight, empathy, and perspective to those who have lost the opportunity to be the parent they desperately wanted to be and who are mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with their child. Through case examples and healing exercises, Dr. Coleman helps parents:

• Reduce anger, guilt, and shame
• Learn how temperament, the teen years, their own or a partner's mistakes, and divorce can strain the parent-child bond
• Come to telÃ*