A LIBRARIAN’S ORIENTATION
What this book explores
Gibson describes emotionally unavailable parenting and offers language for recognizing its effects and developing more realistic boundaries.
EDITORIAL NOTE
Why it’s in the Library
It adds a distinct way of naming harm or understanding recovery while preserving the reader’s agency and the limits of self-help.
Good starting place if…
Family dynamics complicate your sense of agency during religious change.
Know before you begin…
This is a family-relationship lens, not a religious-trauma book or a tool for diagnosing a parent.