Good Reads??
I read somewhere that when a child grows up in a dysfunctional home, as I did, that it is the responsiblity of the adult child to then parent him/herself - you have to supply yourself with what your parents did not. I've been thinking of this quite a bit lately. It's difficult, however, to fill in the blanks manner when I don't know what healthy is.
So, are there any good reads out there, that any of you have read, about creating a healthy environment?
I have and am reading co-dependent no more, and I am in counseling, but I feel like I'm missing something. I grew up in an extremely codependent home in which my family was addicted to one another and religion - not alcohol, but it is almost as if they were dry-alcoholics.
Anyway, I feel as though I missed a whole "section" of growth, that I somehow was only half raised. In this were to physically manifest itself it's like the left side of me is a full grown adult, the right side withered.