Running on Empty

Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

By: Jonice Webb PhD, Christine Musello PsyD

Narrated by: Karen White

Do you sometimes feel as if you're just going through the motions in life? Are you good at looking and acting as if you're fine, but secretly feel lonely and disconnected? If so, you are not alone. The world is full of people who have an innate sense that something is wrong with them - who feel they live on the outside looking in, but have no explanation for this feeling and no way to put it into words.

If you are one of these people, you may fear that you are not connected enough to your spouse, or that you don't feel pleasure or love as profoundly as others do. You may drink too much, or eat too much, or risk too much, in an attempt to feel something good.

Running on Empty will give you clear strategies for how to heal, and offers a special chapter for mental-health professionals. In the world of human suffering, this book is an emotional smart bomb meant to eradicate the effects of an invisible enemy.

©2013 Jonice Webb, PhD (P)2015 Tantor

long on diagnosis, short on solutions

Really good book for those of us who are trying to deal with our childhood issues, and it's always very validating and strengthening to understand better the conditions and causes of unmet needs, but there's not a whole lot of follow up to that. No real way forward into making yourself full again, to retrain, or re-parent yourself into more abundant life.

Insightful observations; treatment underdeveloped.

What others have written is correct. Spot on, insightful articulation of childhood emotional neglect and its impact. Good tips for parents. No magic bullets for overcoming. Treatment is cobbled into a handful of worksheets. Some might find the writing style a bit flowery, but the vignettes are pretty effective descriptions. This book may or may not be an infomercial for her $1500 online treatment package. I plan to read her follow-up book. Seems like she's definitely on to something.

Great information. Bit of a downer.

Liked the framework for examining adult behavior. Relatable. The book could be depressing.
Narrator was NOT my favorite.

Paradigm Shifting, Emotional Neglect not abuse!

Emotional Neglect, but not always abuse is absolutely in need of further understanding and research.

I will listen at least 2 more times to try to process the nuances and this new perspective on being the person you can and were meant to be.

It all finally makes sense

I’m in my forties, and have gone my entire life wondering what is wrong with me. So grateful for this book, despite wishing I’d found it sooner, so I can begin healing.