How to Overcome Your Childhood Kindle Edition

Insightful look at overcoming childhood. This easy read addresses past, present and future with a unique style not offered by most "American" authors. No fluff just the un-polished truth on how to get to maturity.

I gave 5 stars because of the range of emotions I experienced reading over the past few weeks. I felt understood reading it, and in the end. I feel content. Not that my journey is complete. But I do feel as if I began on the right foot. (I'm not great at critiquing or articulating my thoughts, so I will leave it at that)

I really enjoy the TSOL videos on Youtube as they almost always give me insightful tools to deal with my situation. However this book made me feel worse after reading it. It unflinchingly drives home all the ways that your crappy childhood can affect your adult life, and gave virtually no advice on the path forward other than to see a therapist. The title is 'How to Overcome Your Childhood' - Where are the tools to do that? Where is the HOW? This book was not helpful at all.

Good information on how childhood up-bring affects one's behavior as an adult.

If you want to understand yourself and your past. This is the book you are looking for. You won’t regret. You might even shed some tears. It was amazing how not explain everything.

This books puts everything in a very simple way but at the same time in such depth. Great read. I reccomend!

Everything that is put out by TSOL is well researched and explained in ways that are so intimately relatable, it’s as if a friend is explaining things to you. I love how I end up feeling like I have a better understanding of myself, that I am flawed and yet with all the cheerful despair that can be life, I know that we will all be okay.

I found that this an insightful read. I am a psychologist and found the book was based on sound data of how we understand how a person arrives at who they are- asking the key questions about what happened to you and how did it affect you. i think people will find it interesting. it did offer some guidance for going forward to live a more life worth living too. it took a non blaming approach in general which i liked- 'it's not your fault but it is your responsibility' in a gentle and compassionate way. I was impressed.

You might find some of this already in the Book of Life or School of Life materials but this is a nice short read of the elements to consider

As the authors suggest, making sense of yourself and your reactions to events in life by relating them to your childhood experiences can be therapeutic. Insights gained from doing so give us greater control and understanding of the noise that keeps getting in the way. Sadly, the book undermines itself during some of its comments on psychotherapy. Some of this advice is simply dangerous. For many, revisiting traumatic events can re-traumatise them, yet this is not mentioned.

Amazing book. I bought this due to author Catherine Grey referencing to it in her book “the unexpected joy of the ordinary” really help me to understand why I feel the way I do due to my childhood lacking emotional love. Well written and easy to read. Read it in one day!

I have been reading 'self help' books for 20 years and found this small book so insightful. It explained things in ways I have never really thought about and brought clarity to the way that I am. I would highly recommend this to anyone.