Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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A note before we begin: Although we won’t detail the most intense experiences these patients lived through, please be aware their stories include difficult topics such as uncomfortable emotions, physical, mental, and sexual abuse, and cultural genocide. Alana's story is positioned towards the end of the book, so I decided to keep reading as I'd come so far. The premise of Good Morning, Monster is Gildiner, a therapist, shares five of her most “heroic and memorable” patients. Each chapter is conveniently broken down into sections on what happened to those who transgressed or observed the particular law, the key elements in this law, and ways to defensively reverse this law when it’s used against you. Madeline’s father convinced Gildiner to work with her, and Gildiner accepted due to various reasons from her own past, including a similar father figure of her own.

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labai mažos detalės iš ilgų, sudėtingų pasakojimų, kuriuos skaitydami net nenorėsite patikėti, kad tai tiesa. Every one of the five individual journeys proved to be highly inspirational and incredibly interesting. Something that I found very interesting in these narratives were the eventual revelations that the most abusive parents had been abused themselves – also interesting to see how the patients would finally be able to let go of anger over their upbringings once they recognised that their own parents had once been lonely, frightened, and powerless children themselves. Tikrai nedaug skaitau psichologinių knygų, tad labai džiaugiuosi, kad tos, kurios pakliūva į rankas būna įdomios. Have you ever started unwrapping a present, expecting one layer of wrapping paper, but found a mischievous relative added layer after layer for you to dig through to find the present?By the end of his time with Gildiner, Peter had successfully entered an emotional and sexual relationship with a woman. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. A woman who had been abandoned in the woods at eight years old to take care of her younger siblings replied: If she had her life to live over, she said, she probably wouldn't have wanted it to be be any different.

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We tend to forget that we create defense mechanisms in childhood to cope with certain things, but then retain these long after they become unnecessary. She had the luxury of being able to see her clients for years, something that’s sometimes prohibitive in America due to insurance and HMO restrictions. Halperin’s radiant second novel walks the fine line between the longing for couplehood and the torture of codependency. As you can imagine, this book is emotional, powerful, insightful, inspiring, and hopeful even in the face of immense trauma and loss.I keep trying to decipher what the lesson of this book is, and I think it boils down to this: if you have been horribly emotionally damaged, you may never be able to repair yourself completely, but don't let that discount the progress it IS possible to make.

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More seriously, Greene never really defines “power,” and he merely asserts, rather than offers evidence for, the Hobbesian world of all against all in which he insists we live. At times, I had to swallow my gorge (with immense difficulty) and struggle not to vomit during Alana's tale of survival and the near incomprehensible suffering she triumphed over. The methods and techniques that are helpful vary from situation to situation, and a therapist must use their discretion when working with patients. This continues to be a really exciting time for Dear Media,” said Dear Media Founder and CEO Michael Bosstick.

I never knew the Canadian government implemented a systematic eradication of Native American culture in the 1960s. We live today as courtiers once did in royal courts: we must appear civil while attempting to crush all those around us. The author also shared a pretty amazingly offensive rationale behind Alana's attraction to a trans woman that I'm not comfortable repeating in this review. But sooner or later you might be able to see that there is a way of healing for you, and this is where I see a book like Good Morning, Monster can be extremely valuable.

Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Recovery

It is interesting to note that in writing the book there is an "ah-ha" moment in which the book itself lends an element of catharsis for Gildner. Not only did it not quench my thirst for another Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, it nearly put me off of the idea of books centering around therapists for good. Minka Kelly takes readers behind the shiny silver-screen facade and reveals just how good an actress she really is.The brainwashing is just that practiced by narcissists at all levels—a valuable lesson for all readers, given how exposed we are to narcissists these days. Almost all abusive parenting is based on generations of the same; those who are abusive were likely themselves abused. Don’t let that deter you from grabbing a copy of this truly inspirational and educational book that will make you think about yourself as well.