PT-LawMom

…you exchange self-help literature for Christmas. Or perhaps they are all trying to tell me something? From my father, I received Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone. My mother game me Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child. My aunt gave me the best one: Still Hot: The Uncensored Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite, and Happily Ever After.

I gave my Dad An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Jamison. I read this many years ago and it is a highly recommended book on bipolar disorder. I sent a copy to my Nana (also bipolar) at the time and she finally read it when she was in a place to do so and sent me a note several years later to thank me for sending it. I hope Dad reads it. I gave my Mom Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life. This is the best book I’ve found post-divorce to help with codependency but it’s also been the hardest one to get through (only because it makes me face things I don’t want to face). They have a Workbook that goes with it so I got each of us one of those, too. I guess the family that grows together stays together?