Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children

I think I’ve partially red every book on family dynamics. This book is different. Not only does it provide a clear definition and explanation of the subject—Childhood Emotional Neglect—but it also helps you understand how it effects you. Then it also gives you tools to work with. I only wish I’d had this book 50 years ago. My life would have been significantly changed for the better. 5 stars is not enough. Thank you Dr. Jonice.

i will be reading this book again and probably one more time.. so that someday i will also say.. I'm the luckiest, person in the world 🌎

The way the author expressed the stories of how CEN affects those of us raised in those environments hit home on so many levels! It really shed valuable light on all the rich experiences i have been missing. Highly recommended.

I wish I would have read this years ago! I always felt that there was something in the way of my relationship with my SO. We have always got along good, but there was a missing dimension that I just couldn't put my finger on, until Dr. Jonice Webb's explained it so perfectly. We have been filling that missing piece of our relationship (and other important relationships in my life), and it has added depth and richness to the most important relationships in my life. Thank you for writing this book Dr. Webb. I hope everyone reads it!

This book helps clarify how childhood emotional neglect affects families.It provides a picture of a silent scream inside the cold distance of neglect.It gives practical ideas for re-forging family relationships.Emotional connection is not a myth or legend. Its really possible.Read this book if you've had trouble in building secure connections but could not identify abuse or personality disorders in your family history. Obvious abuse takes a toll and has a traumatic impact on development. Childhood emotional neglect is not obvious but affects our ability to form supportive close relationships.Happy news. We can repair this missing piece and accept that we (including our feelings) matter.

The first half of the book was far more helpful to me than the second as I do not have children. I skipped all of that. I am part of a couple both of whom suffered from CEN, so we definitely have our work cut out for us. Let’s hope the author’s advice helps.

I like reading it so far. It’s helped with insight into my problems.

I'm still in the process of reading this book and am ready to give my 5-star review. I read a blog of Dr. Webb's in a mental health email that I get. The subject was Childhood Emotional Neglect. As I read the blog, I felt in tune with everything I read and ordered her first book, "Running on Empty." Even if you think you had a great childhood like I did, if you were emotionally neglected, that childhood can be the root cause of adult dysfunction later in life as I have found out. I have spent the last few nights reading "Running on Empty No More" with tears streaming down my face. It hit the bull's eye for all my adult issues, avoidant behavior and damaged relationships. Dr. Webb is a brilliant genius for writing these books. The concept of CEN needs to be taught to every licensed therapist and counselor and also needs to be added to the curriculum for future mental health professionals. I predict that we will have a lot more cases of CEN since the evolution of technology, Facebook, etc. I see so many neglected babies and children out and about while mom and dad have their noses in their phones instead of interacting with their children. I highly recommend this book to all without question. I consider Dr. Webb my new best friend right now.

This is an amazing book by an amazing woman who in her first book - 'Running on Empty', has uncovered the very real and damaging effects of the lack of receiving emotional validation has on people for life. Jonice has now gone into more detail in this second book 'Running on Empty No More' by relating it, in depth, to various relationships and situations.I really couldn't recommend one book without the other. It astounds me that this concept is so new, and yet so common, and the implications are far reaching.I don't encourage writing in books - ever. And yet in this case I have gained so many insights into my own and other peoples behavior that I have felt compelled to write these down in the margins - the book is now filled with my insights and comments and highlighted sections of text .From using the guidance in the book(s) I have noticed that I have developed more healthy boundaries with family members, and am supporting my daughter in a way that is embracing her feelings more, and hopefully will prevent her from developing the same problems I grew up with, and am still working on.It's not a quick fix - but I am moving forward and Jonice writes so reassuringly that although I do sometimes panic about my parenting I can gain confidence that every time I use the approach in this book I am healing myself or preventing CEN in my daughter, and often both at once.

Another insight into CEN which has helped me enormously. I would go as far as to say after reading both books I have now been reinvented and at 60 I feel like a spring chicken, really enthusiastic and in touch with my feelings! Thank you so much!

Highly recommend ..Its the missing piece of the jigsaw! As a psychotherapist (15 years) this is exactly the resource I have been looking for , it covers an area that many people dont know that they dont know about, This book gives a context that definitely gives that aha feeling! a great help for many thanks

This book has really opened my eyes and finally helped me understood my feelings in a deeper level. My main focus was learning about my CEN parents and healing my emotional neglect. I recommend this book to anyone who has felt neglected/miss understood/lonely in their childhood. I found out that my parents do love me but that’s doesn’t mean that I feel their love - and it’s ok. The book gives great examples and techniques on how to cope with that.

If you always had a feeling of emptiness, that something is missing in your life, that you are not good enough or sometimes inferior to other people the chances are you have been neglected emotionally by your parents/careers. This book gave me a solid foundation of what CEN is/it is not and now altough I'm still in early stages of treatment I now know and an word/express the reasons for so many issues I had surfing my adulthood life.