--- product_id: 117431733 title: "Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy" price: "฿1326" currency: THB in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/117431733-recovering-from-emotionally-immature-parents-practical-tools-to-establish-boundaries store_origin: TH region: Thailand --- # Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy **Price:** ฿1326 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy - **How much does it cost?** ฿1326 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.th](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/117431733-recovering-from-emotionally-immature-parents-practical-tools-to-establish-boundaries) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , author Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover, make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and break free from the coercive control of emotionally immature parents. Growing up with emotionally immature (EI) parents can leave you feeling lonely and neglected. You may have trouble setting limits and expressing your feelings. And you may even be more susceptible to other emotionally immature people as you establish adult relationships. In addition, as your parents become older, they may still treat your emotions with mockery and contempt, be dismissive and discounting of your reality, and try to control and diminish your sense of emotional autonomy and freedom of thought. In short, EIs can be self-absorbed, inconsistent, and contradictory. So, how can you recover from their toxic behavior? Drawing on the success of her popular self-help book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , author Lindsay Gibson offers yet another essential resource. With this follow-up guide, you’ll learn practical skills to help you recognize the signs of an EI, protect yourself against an emotional takeover, reconnect with your own emotions and needs, and gain emotional autonomy in all your relationships. This is a how-to book, with doable exercises and active tips and suggestions for what to say and do to increase emotional autonomy and self-awareness. If you’re ready to stop putting your own needs last, clear the clutter of self-doubt, and move beyond the fear of judgment and punishment that’s been instilled in you by emotionally immature parents, this book will help you find the freedom to finally live your life your way . Review: A fantastic book, a must read for most adults outhere - Loved this book. Very well written and easy to understand, it wont only make you realize a lot of things but also gives you tools to improve and work on them. Review: Very helpful self-help book - There are a lot of self-help books out there about narcissistic parents/people, how to heal from abuse, etc. There are also technical books about such people, mostly written for psychotherapists. The truth is: you don't really need to diagnose your bully or abuser to get out from under them. It can be very confusing to figure out whether your mother was just a narcissist, or also a borderline. You can waste a lot of time that way. This book cuts through all the confusion and just calls them "emotionally immature" people. This seems like a rather large, vague term. But the author's understanding of how EIPs confuse, undermine, and dominate other people is wide-ranging and fine-grained. She also has very specific suggestions about how to disarm them that go beyond vague exhortations to "set boundaries." As anybody knows who has dealt with abusers, setting boundaries works temporarily, until they figure out a sneakier way to violate your boundaries. Gibson even recommends actually getting mad at people as long as you do it in a non-abusive way, which is definitely possible. She also cautions people that cut-offs are not your first choice, because you may come to regret such a decision. I think that's correct. The main value of this book is that it teaches you to recover a sense of your own dignity and worth that is very resilient in the face of the relentless attacks that EIPs launch. In the end we can't do much to stop abusers from trying to abuse. If you can't get away from them, at least you can shore up your own defenses against their desire to tear you down and destroy you. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #10,352 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10 in Parent & Adult Child Relationships (Books) #13 in Dysfunctional Families (Books) #160 in Personal Transformation Self-Help | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,479 Reviews | ## Images ![Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71VBhwlgWWL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fantastic book, a must read for most adults outhere *by C***O on May 26, 2026* Loved this book. Very well written and easy to understand, it wont only make you realize a lot of things but also gives you tools to improve and work on them. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very helpful self-help book *by E***Y on November 9, 2022* There are a lot of self-help books out there about narcissistic parents/people, how to heal from abuse, etc. There are also technical books about such people, mostly written for psychotherapists. The truth is: you don't really need to diagnose your bully or abuser to get out from under them. It can be very confusing to figure out whether your mother was just a narcissist, or also a borderline. You can waste a lot of time that way. This book cuts through all the confusion and just calls them "emotionally immature" people. This seems like a rather large, vague term. But the author's understanding of how EIPs confuse, undermine, and dominate other people is wide-ranging and fine-grained. She also has very specific suggestions about how to disarm them that go beyond vague exhortations to "set boundaries." As anybody knows who has dealt with abusers, setting boundaries works temporarily, until they figure out a sneakier way to violate your boundaries. Gibson even recommends actually getting mad at people as long as you do it in a non-abusive way, which is definitely possible. She also cautions people that cut-offs are not your first choice, because you may come to regret such a decision. I think that's correct. The main value of this book is that it teaches you to recover a sense of your own dignity and worth that is very resilient in the face of the relentless attacks that EIPs launch. In the end we can't do much to stop abusers from trying to abuse. If you can't get away from them, at least you can shore up your own defenses against their desire to tear you down and destroy you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Help for a person interacting with an emotionally immature person (EIP). *by G***. on September 21, 2019* [Disclosure: I’d known Dr. Gibson for twenty years before I retired to Texas in 2013. In Virginia, I used her monthly Tidewater Women column as a class handout. I love her clear writing and have purchased every book she has written. When I congratulated the author via email on her third book, she asked if I would review it despite my having no psychology training.] First, Dr. Gibson uses almost no jargon except for: • EI (emotionally immature) • EIP (emotionally immature person) • EIRS (emotionally immature relationship system) Second, she wrote this book for 1) the adult survivors of EI parents and for 2) everyone who encounters EIPs. EIPs are your family or societal self-centered, emotional bullies. I view relationships as having primal and rational parts, i.e., gut and thoughtful pieces. EIPs are self-serving primal (instinctive) beings. Their actions are dominating and hurtful, and they cause others to blame themselves for such bad treatment. Or as the author says, “Because EIPs insist on dominating and being the center of importance, they don’t leave room or resources for others to be fully themselves.” Dr. Gibson wrote this book to give the abused person 1) an understanding of EIPs and 2) ideas how to a) improve their own lives and b) reduce the EIP’s negative impact. On the first goal, the author writes, “My aim… is to give you a language for everything that goes on in EI relationships, both what happens between you and them, and what happens inside yourself as you try to cope with them. Once you can name it, you can deal with it.” Part I (Chapters 1-6) covers the messy and illogical nature of EIPs. The author avoids psychological talk but shows how multi-faceted EIP behavior is. Dr. Gibson repeatedly says it is not your fault you were born into or found yourself dealing with an EIP. Although I never had EI parents, I’ve had my difficulties with EIPs. Dr. Gibson’s Part II (Chapters 7-10), therefore, was worth the book’s price. She says, “Your ultimate recovery goal is to build a loyal, committed relationship to your own inner self and well-being. You’ll also learn how to transform your EI relationship into the best it can be (my emphasis), without sacrificing your integrity or blaming them.” In other words, the situation can’t be fixed, but it can be improved for yourself and with the EIP. There are no miracle cures, but instead; slow recovery. If the EIP is your mother, father, boss, or another person you need to deal with, the author’s suggestions are helpful. Remember, standard relationship rules and logic don’t work with EIPs. If you are the adult child of an EI parent, then the author also provides journaling activities for you to assess where you are now, what boundaries you need to set, and how to evaluate the new results you get. Working with EIPs, if they are family or otherwise, can be a lifelong journey. Dr. Gibson understands this unfortunate fact and has fashioned a book to improve your life! ## Frequently Bought Together - Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy - Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Daily Practices to Honor Your Emotions and Live with Confidence --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/117431733-recovering-from-emotionally-immature-parents-practical-tools-to-establish-boundaries](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/117431733-recovering-from-emotionally-immature-parents-practical-tools-to-establish-boundaries) --- *Product available on Desertcart Thailand* *Store origin: TH* *Last updated: 2026-06-06*