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Reconnecting with Your Estranged Adult Child

Practical Tips and Tools to Heal Your Relationship

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Reconnecting with Your Estranged Adult Child

By: Tina Gilbertson
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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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. 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 even 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.

©2020 Tina Gilbertson (P)2020 Tantor
Parenting & Families Parents & Adult Children Personal Development Personal Success Adult Children
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Helpful Introduction • Practical Steps • Reconnection Strategies • Hopeful Guidance
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I recommend this book to parents whose adult children hesitate to or do not have contact with them, but also to all parents and to all adult children. Rarely have I read a more helpful introduction to parent and child roles, every humans psychological needs and struggles, plus practical steps one can take to better both one's own well-being and that of one's relationships. What an important contribution the author makes, with the book and with her YouTube channel too.

Lifeline academic and experience-formed wisdom

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I reserve 5 stars for outstanding books. This is very good to excellent in parts.

quite good overall.

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Before I comment on the book I want to mention the narrator. Colleen Marlo is beyond praise. Her voicing adds a lot to the book and nobody could have done it better. The book also teaches how to be more mature with more courage. I was of the school of "Maybe I was a bit too harsh but he knows I love him.." Wrong and Tina explains why. The book is very well written, covers everything and is very down too earth. If you have a friend lamenting an estrangement this could make a much valued gift. But as Tina would say, first query your friend to get permission for the gift. Superb. I will listen again.

Will save you from major mistakes

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After a 10 year separation from my two children as a result of parental alienation, I struggled with fear, anxiety and worry about how to best reconnect and begin to repair the relationships. This book was a very good start! I highly recommend.

Strength, Hope and Awareness found here!

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such great advice whether you're in the situation for one reason or another he goes through different scenarios and gives the greatest advice. great for estranged families for many situations.

excellent book

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Tina is a master at helping ease the pain of estrangement while providing useful tools and strategies. Must listen!

Extremely kind and compassionate help

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Very helpful and eye opening. After listening to this one can appreciate having some time to take corrective actions before trying to relate to one's adult child or children. I'm so pleased to have stumbled upon such a valuable insight as this book that I can employ tools to support my relationships with both of my adult children and their wives.

Eye opening and informative. Well worth listening.

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If you’re missing a child due to estrangement, this book gives you hope, strategies, and tools to repair that relationship and reconnect with that person or people. It has been a game changer for me. So much love.

A must read

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It is very helpful! Loved it! I highly recommend this book & audio book !

Outstanding!

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Offers various ways to view estrangement and personal coping strategies to survive what feels undeserving.

Stimulating thoughts

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