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Healing companions for Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
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items A focused selection of books and formats that expand on the themes of Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect and related emotional neglect work. These resources support recognition of childhood emotional neglect, inner-child heal...
Core text introducing Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) as an “invisible force” from childhood that quietly shapes adult disconnection, emptiness, and self-blame. Ideal for readers who suspect something important was missing-not obviously abusive-in ...
Running on Empty: Overcome Childhood Neglect
Digital edition of Webb's foundational CEN book, suited to readers who prefer highlighting, searching concepts, and carrying the material across devices. Contains the same framework on how unmet emotional needs-not obvious trauma-produce chronic empt...
Running on Empty: Overcome Childhood Emotional
Audio edition narrated for listeners who absorb psychoeducation better by ear or during commutes and walks. Covers Webb's full explanation of CEN, including the Emotional Neglect Questionnaire, case vignettes, and the “filling the tank” change proces...
Running on Empty: Overcome Childhood Neglect
Relationship-focused follow-up for people who resonated with Running on Empty and now want to understand how CEN affects partners, parents, and children. Webb offers portraits of CEN-impacted relationships, scripts for talking about CEN, and concrete...
Running on Empty No More by Jonice Webb PhD
Targets adults who grew up with parents who were distant, self-involved, or unable to validate feelings, often leading to emotional neglect and confusion in adulthood. Gibson outlines four types of emotionally immature parents and shows how their beh...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Practical sequel for readers who understand the emotionally immature parent dynamic and now need step-by-step tools to respond differently. Emphasizes boundary-setting, avoiding “emotional takeovers,” and prioritizing your own needs after a childhood...
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents
A classic inner-child text explaining how trauma, loss, and dysfunctional family patterns wound the “Child Within” and lead to a false self that copes by numbing or over-functioning. Whitfield differentiates the true self from survival defenses and o...
Healing the Child Within: Discovery & Recovery
For adults who sense their mother was distant, preoccupied, or unable to provide emotional attunement, even if overt abuse was absent. Cori explains “undermothering,” shows the developmental needs good-enough mothering would have met, and provides re...
The Emotionally Absent Mother: Self-Healing Guide
Updated and expanded edition emphasizing how emotionally absent or abusive mothering creates lasting, often hard-to-name impacts on self-worth, attachment, and adult relationships. Includes neuroscience-informed discussion, guidance on recognizing un...
The Emotionally Absent Mother, Second Edition
Companion journal designed to deepen work from Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents through structured reflection and prompts. Provides space to process specific childhood experiences, track emotional patterns, and clarify needs and boundar...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Journal