Bad Childhood, Good Life: How to Blossom and Thrive in Spite of an Unhappy Childhood Book

I basically can't stand Dr. Laura. Aside from her homophobia and slut-shaming "family values" and ignorant, baseless, misinformed rants against "evil feminism," her tone in general - and in this book, too - is sanctimonious and self-righteous, and I just ... no. Not here for that. (Also, her transcript excerpts just had me rolling my eyes.

But despite all of that, I found this book and read it because I like bad self-help books. And there's actually a lot of good advice in this thing, if you can get past the fact that it's Dr. Laura. It's not even just for those who actually suffered physical or mental abuse as kids - it's also for those of us who had generally good childhoods but still feel that certain aspects of our relationships with our parents were/are problematic.

If you think that there's a chance that something in this book might help you, I really think that something in here will. That's partly because there's a lot of general advice in here, though, so take that for what it's worth.