Adult Children of Borderline Parents

Daniel Lobel offers adults raised by a parent with BPD a trauma-informed guide for understanding their hidden wounds and healing from their toxic childhood. Using therapeutic tool emotional reprocessing, readers will learn how to neutralize the harmful effects of their childhood, develop a healthy sense of self, and reclaim their full potential.

Dan shares decades of knowledge, and explains the most complex relationships of all, with skill and ease. The reader who has spent years trying to make sense of the most complex dyad of all, the borderline personality disorder (BPD) parent-adult child relationship, will not only find themselves in the pages but relate and identify with the outstanding lived-experience examples. This is a book that you will return to time and time again.

Once again, Lobel offers hope and clarity to people navigating life within a bewildering and painful borderline system. Lobel's newest book brings his expertise and empathy into the reader's hands, opening a doorway to a healthier path forward. A must-read how-to guide for clinicians and clients alike.

This book cleared up confusion about my relationship behavior that caused me pain for decades. The author's tone is warm and supportive, yet clear in pointing out hard truths I couldn't grasp until I saw them spelled out. Many of us with childhood trauma yearn for someone who understands. The author does. He'll show you how to heal and move on to freedom. Read this book—it will quickly improve your life.

Daniel S. Lobel, PhD, practices clinical psychology in Katonah, NY. He is author of two books: When Your Daughter Has BPD and When Your Mother Has Borderline Personality Disorder, and numerous blogs on Psychology Today. He has taught at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, State University of New York, Hofstra School of Law, and lectures with the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI).Randi Kreger is coauthor of Stop Walking on Eggshells, and author or coauthor of three other books: The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook, The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, and Stop Walking on Eggshells for Parents. Kreger is owner and moderator of the Moving Forward family support group, which can be accessed at her website: www.stopwalkingoneggshells.com. She has given presentations throughout the United States and in Japan. She also has a one-on-one coaching practice which can be accessed through her website.