Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate guide will help you embrace your decision with a sense of pride, validation, and faith in yourself; and provides powerful tools for creating boundaries, coping with judgment, and overcoming self-doubt.
Do you have a toxic family member? Do you feel like cutting ties with this person—even as painful and scary as that may sound—would dramatically increase your well-being and improve your life? You're not alone. Severing ties with a family member can be devastating; and cutting this toxic person out of your life may bring up feelings of guilt and uncertainty—especially if you feel judged by others regarding your decision. Fortunately, you can free yourself from this toxic family member in a healthy, responsible, and liberating way.
In Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members, psychologist and toxic-family survivor Sherrie Campbell offers effective strategies for setting strong boundaries after ending contact with a toxic family member, and provides powerful tools to help you heal from shame, self-doubt, and stigma. You'll find the validation you need to embrace your decision with pride and acknowledgement of your self-worth. You'll learn how to let go of negative thoughts and feelings. And finally, you'll develop the skills needed to rediscover self-care, self-love, self-reliance, and healthy loving relationships.
Whether you're ready to sever ties with a toxic family member, or already have, this book will help guide you, every step of the way.
AUTHORS
Sherrie Campbell, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping healthy people cut ties with the toxic people in their lives. She is a nationally recognized expert on family estrangement, an inspirational speaker, former radio host of the Dr. Sherrie Show on BBM Global Network and Tune-In Radio, a social media influencer, and a regularly featured media expert.
Foreword writer Wendy T. Behary, LCSW, is founder and clinical director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey, founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and author Disarming the Narcissist.
PRAISE
“Sherrie Campbell’s Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members equips people to maintain their health, even in the wake of damaging family relationships. A source of encouragement to those who have experienced family abuse, the book discusses when and how to set no-contact boundaries—the central piece of its approach. Then it addresses the complicated, conflicting emotions, like relief and shame, that follow from cutting ties with a family member.... With a tone of unshakable support, the book takes a reassuring yet firm approach, intoning that abuse is not okay, and that people should not put up with it, no matter from whom it comes. Campbell supports each notion with personal experiences and research, including from social and behavioral psychology. Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members is a self-help guide to ending and healing from toxic relationships.”
—Foreword Reviews
“Sherrie Campbell has written a must-read for anyone who has cut ties with toxic family members. Her book brings together the critical elements desperately needed for overcoming childhood shame, and guides her readers through every stage of emotional healing while helping them create self-empowering boundaries. Each chapter of her book offers profound insights into the most common struggles faced by adult survivors of toxic family dynamics.”
—Kim Saeed, author of How to Do No Contact Like a Boss!
“Sherrie Campbell has written a number of must-read books on dealing with toxic family members and loving yourself in the aftermath. Her latest book is yet another gem that will resonate with anyone seeking support for overcoming toxic relationships. Her book is a must-read for mental health professionals because this area of trauma is too often ill-informed and misunderstood. Read this book and connect with Campbell on social media for knowledge that will help you thrive!”
—Dan Pierce, founder of Mentally Fit, and Thrive Global contributor
