Don Carter Lcsw

Thawing Toxic Relationships (Thawing the Iceberg, #4) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thawing Toxic Relationships is a compassionate, practical guide for anyone who grew up in a dysfunctional or less-than-nurturing family system and now struggles to build or sustain healthy, connected, emotionally safe relationships. If you find yourself repeating painful patterns-choosing unsafe partners, feeling unheard, over-giving, withdrawing, or losing yourself in relationships-this book will help you understand why and chart a clear path toward change.

Growing up without secure emotional modeling often leads to deficits in communication, boundary-setting, emotional regulation, conflict repair, and healthy partner selection. These patterns are not character flaws-they are survival strategies learned early and carried into adulthood. Thawing Toxic Relationships helps you identify these patterns, understand the unmet needs behind them, and learn how to co-create relationships that are mutually supportive, balanced, and emotionally attuned.

This book builds on the foundation established in Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome, which focuses on healing your internal relationship with yourself. Once that groundwork is in place, Thawing Toxic Relationships helps you extend those new capacities into your relationships with others-romantic, family, and interpersonal. For those with deeper early wounds, the author also recommends beginning with Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues or Thaw - Freedom from Frozen Feelings to support emotional readiness.

This edition includes access to a Bonus Download Page, available through a QR code and link inside the book, offering optional guided audios and resources designed to support emotional regulation and deepen the relational healing process.

Grounded in Carl Jung's belief that "One cannot have a healthy relationship with others until they first develop a healthy relationship with themselves," this book provides both insight and actionable tools for:

• Understanding toxic relational patterns
• Identifying emotional triggers and unmet childhood needs
• Strengthening communication and boundary skills
• Choosing safer, healthier partners
• Regulating emotional intensity (too numb or too reactive)
• Creating relationships rooted in mutual respect, authenticity, and growth

Whether you are beginning your healing journey or seeking deeper relational change, Thawing Toxic Relationships offers a structured, encouraging roadmap for transforming dysfunctional patterns and cultivating the healthy, fulfilling connections you deserve.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Serenity Cafe Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370427673
• Artikelnr.: 48757257

Autorenporträt

Don Carter, MSW, LCSW has been a therapist for nearly three decades during which time he has been employed at several mental health agencies around Mid-Missouri. He has held positions from entry level up to manager of a chemical dependency program at a large hospital. His primary specialty areas include addictions, codependency, mood disorders, PTSD, and Adult/Child Syndrome.

The middle of seven children, Don grew up on a farm with hard-working parents who had their own issues from childhood. The farm work lead to a scholarship to play football at the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1977-79. He followed that with a brief stint with the New Orleans Saints in 1980. That experience was cut short by a developing problem with alcohol and drugs. A series of childhood tragedies and bouts with addictions lead Don to his first encounter with the mental health system when he entered an inpatient treatment program at 29 years old.

Don found treatment and recovery such a profoundly gratifying experience that he returned to school, finished two degrees, became a licensed therapist and dedicated himself to helping others find their way out too. The Iceberg Model in his bestselling "Thawing the Iceberg Series" was a product of the years that followed. Don attributes most of the success of that series to his relationship with God. "I really feel I am living the plan He has for my life and carrying a message He wants me to carry."