Running on Empty No More · Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children by Webb, Jonice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction

The Three Big Questions I Get Most Often:

Part 1: Cen And Your Relationship

Chapter 1: The CEN Relationship: A Portrait

When One Partner Has CEN When Both Partners Have CEN

Chapter 2: Did CEN Affect Your Choice of Partner?

Five Ways CEN Can Affect Your Choice of Partner Summary

Chapter 3: The Effects of CEN on Your Relationship

Chapter 4: How to Talk to Your Partner about CEN

Before You Talk with Your Partner What to Expect: The Elements of a Successful Talk about CEN What to Do If You Both Have CEN What to Do If You Cannot Reach Your Partner

Chapter 5: How to Repair Your CEN Relationship

Connection-Building Exercises Conflict Management Exercises Portrait of a Couple’s CEN Recovery

Part 2: Your Cen Parents

The Well-Meaning-But-Neglected-Themselves Parents (WMBNT) The Struggling Parent The Self-Involved Parent

Chapter 7: How CEN Affects Your Relationship with Your Parents

Chapter 8: Protect Yourself: Boundaries and Self-Care

How to Know When to Start Setting Limits Protect Yourself with Self-Care The Miraculous Protection of Boundaries

Chapter 9: Talking with Your Parents about CEN

How to Decide If You Should Talk with Your Parents about CEN How to Talk with Your Parents Portrait of a Healing Parent/Child Relationship What to Do If There Is No Hope

Part 3: Your Children

Chapter 10: The Emotionally Neglected Child, A Portrait

The CEN Child The CEN Child, All Grown Up

Chapter 11: The Feelings of the CEN Parent

The Feelings of the CEN Parent

Chapter 12: How CEN Has Affected Your Parenting

The Feelings of the CEN Child Summary

Chapter 13: Changing Your Parenting Style

Three Changes You Can Make Now with Children of Any Age How to Prevent CEN and Enrich Your Relationship with Your Small Child Strategies for Adolescents Strategies for Your Adult Child Summary

Chapter 14: Should You Talk with Your Child about CEN? And How to Do It

The Potential Advantages and Disadvantages Five Questions to Help You Decide Set Yourself Up for Success Summary

Chapter 15: Portrait of Two Healing Families

Epilogue About the Author References Resources