Running on Empty No More

Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children
By Jonice Webb

Building on her first book, Jonice Webb focuses specifically on how Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) plays out in three key relationships: romantic partnerships, adult relationships with parents, and one’s own parenting. Each section explains how CEN-driven patterns show up in daily interactions, offers guidance on having productive conversations about emotional neglect with the people involved, and provides concrete steps for change. The goal is to help readers recognize and break the generational cycle of emotional disconnection.

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Concepts
  • CEN (Childhood Emotional Neglect)
    A pattern in which a parent fails to respond adequately to a child's emotional needs, leaving the adult with difficulty identifying, expressing, and valuing their own emotions.
  • Alexithymia
    A reduced ability to identify and describe one's own feelings, a common result of CEN that creates distance in adult relationships.
  • Counter-Dependency
    A CEN-driven pattern of compulsive self-reliance in which a person resists receiving help or emotional support from others.
  • Fatal Flaw
    The deep, often unconscious belief held by many CEN adults that something is fundamentally wrong with them, driving shame and self-concealment in relationships.
  • Generational Cycle
    The process by which parents who experienced CEN unintentionally pass emotional neglect to their own children, and how to interrupt that pattern.
Chapters
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. CEN and Your Relationship
  • Chapter 1. The CEN Relationship - A Portrait
  • Chapter 2. Did CEN Affect Your Choice of Partner?
  • Chapter 3. The Effects of CEN on Your Relationship
  • Chapter 4. How to Talk to Your Partner about CEN
  • Chapter 5. How to Repair Your CEN Relationship
  • Part 2. Your CEN Parents
  • Chapter 6. The Emotionally Neglectful Family All Grown Up
  • Chapter 7. How CEN Affects Your Relationship with Your Parents
  • Chapter 8. Protect Yourself - Boundaries and Self-Care
  • Chapter 9. Talking with Your Parents about CEN
  • Part 3. Your Children
  • Chapter 10. The Emotionally Neglected Child, A Portrait
  • Chapter 11. The Feelings of the CEN Parent
  • Chapter 12. How CEN Has Affected Your Parenting
  • Chapter 13. Changing Your Parenting Style
  • Chapter 14. Should You Talk with Your Child about CEN? And How to Do It
  • Chapter 15. Portrait of Two Healing Families
  • Epilogue
  • About the Author
  • References
  • Resources
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Published
  • November 7, 2017
Publisher
  • Morgan James Publishing
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