Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt As Children

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Summary: The best guide to understanding what to do I have ever read
Review: Getting Through The Day is the first book that gave me guidance on all the advice I got from the other books I read on healing from incest...Even after a stay in a therapy program I was still confused on how to soothe my inner children or how to know what triggers were..Now I have gained the understanding I need to continue on my journey toward healing and wholeness.

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Summary: Probably not...
Review: I did not actually finish this book. I tried. I found it ridiculous, poorly written, and full of whining; many people written about in the book (from what I did read) did not actually have serious problems in the first place. If your biggest problem from childhood is that your parents didn't give you enough "attention", and if your entire adult identity is of being "wounded" or "damaged", and if your second career is being in therapy twice a week, then this book might be for you. If you're tough and intelligent and independent, do not bother with this book.

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Summary: So helpful over and over again
Review: I found this book so informative and helpful. Having PTSD from every kind of child abuse really does make it difficult to get through the day. This is a continous help to me.

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Summary: So helpful over and over again
Review: I found this book so informative and helpful. Having PTSD from every kind of child abuse really does make it difficult to get through the day. This is a continous help to me.

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Summary: Helpful book
Review: I never realized that when I was tortured by other kids how much of an impact that would make on me until I read this book. I was abused at home, alcoholic parent, and tortured at school. I went through torture everyday with those kids juse because I was blonde, quiet, and to myself. This book made me look back and then see who I am today. I am trying to boost my self esteem but those "bullies" really abused me to a point. This book is for any adult who has been victimized by adults, children, or anyone as a child. Sooner or later, it will go back to those bullies. We are stronger than they are and it can make us better people. We've always been better than them because we know what it is like to be hurt.

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Summary: One of the best self-help books published
Review: I've read a lot of trauma books and have found this to be one of the best. Offers information in a consise, easy to understand and easy to apply format. Have continually referenced this book as I have moved through the healing process. If I could only own one book to assist me, this would be it.

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Summary: One of the best self-help books published
Review: I've read a lot of trauma books and have found this to be one of the best. Offers information in a consise, easy to understand and easy to apply format. Have continually referenced this book as I have moved through the healing process. If I could only own one book to assist me, this would be it.

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Summary: Real Help When Day-to-Day Living is a Struggle
Review: Sometimes daily life feels like climbing a hill through molasses. Even those who don't have MPD may have inner children (teenagers, pseudo-adults) who seem to be at war with each other, or extreme emotional reactions left over from childhood. This book has a wealth of strategies for soothing those inner selves in the context of the demands of daily living. If that was all, that would be enough for me to recommend this book, because I don't know of another book on the market that deals with practical strategies for daily life in terms of these inner selves (with suggestions for those who do have MPD). But I also appreciate the empathetic tone of the book. Sometimes that kind of tone, however well-meant, can come off as sappy or condescending, but I felt that here it was warm and sincere. I'd also like to recommend two other books: "How to Love Yourself When You Don't Know How" and "Internal Family Systems Therapy." Both are wonderful books about these inner selves and how they function in us. And while they don't deal with the day-to-day struggles and strategies that this book does, they are also resources for exploring the subpersonality issues that affect so many of us.

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Summary: Real Help When Day-to-Day Living is a Struggle
Review: Sometimes daily life feels like climbing a hill through molasses. Even those who don't have MPD may have inner children (teenagers, pseudo-adults) who seem to be at war with each other, or extreme emotional reactions left over from childhood. This book has a wealth of strategies for soothing those inner selves in the context of the demands of daily living. If that was all, that would be enough for me to recommend this book, because I don't know of another book on the market that deals with practical strategies for daily life in terms of these inner selves (with suggestions for those who do have MPD). But I also appreciate the empathetic tone of the book. Sometimes that kind of tone, however well-meant, can come off as sappy or condescending, but I felt that here it was warm and sincere. I'd also like to recommend two other books: "How to Love Yourself When You Don't Know How" and "Internal Family Systems Therapy." Both are wonderful books about these inner selves and how they function in us. And while they don't deal with the day-to-day struggles and strategies that this book does, they are also resources for exploring the subpersonality issues that affect so many of us.

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Summary: Invaluable!!
Review: This book has so many ways of helping you understand what is going on in your life, how to get through the tough times, to discover what is the true cause of adverse reactions and how to heal.

Some of this information can come across as so completely foreign that it may take time for you to believe it. I remember reading some of the excercises and thinking "How hokey can you get!" After becoming desperate enough, I thought "Well nothing else has helped, why not give it a try." and it WORKED!!