Getting Over Your Parents: Untangling Your Childhood | The School of Life

If it's true that the first 12 years of your life determine the next 50, I suppose that I should be very grateful that Terry Hall intervened when I was 11.

Getting Over Your Parents is the latest title from The School of Life, and over its 232 pages, it looks at varieties of difficult parents, analyses their symptoms and provides exercises to help overcome them.

Our parents are a huge deal. Whether we adore them or keep them at a distance, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes to work, our self-esteem) is crucially determined by our relationships with the vastly significant people who put us on the earth.

Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide to how to navigate the often complex legacies left to us by our parents. It gives us a vocabulary with which to understand certain of the stranger and more difficult things that parents sometimes do to their children - as well as advice on how to move forward from our puzzles or confusions. The emphasis is never on blame, always simply on understanding.

The book recognises that while some of us wouldn't want to change very much about our childhoods, many more of us hope to get to grips with particular things that unfolded decades ago.

This book helps us to explore the past so that we can secure for ourselves the more creative, calm and loving future

Size: 131 x 186mm (hardback)

Pages: 232

Publisher: School of Life