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Good Kids
Why You Suffered in Silence and How to Break the Cycle
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Maggie Nick's Good Kids examines the parentification phenomenon where children adopt adult roles and people-pleasing to hold families together.
Drawing on clinical examples, research, and her own experience, Nick outlines how relational shame and nervous-system responses drive these patterns.
The book offers a framework for adults who grew up as 'good kids' to understand their internal parts, reclaim anger safely, and shift self-critical beliefs.
It also provides practical guidance and five parenting adjustments to reduce shame-based parenting and support healthier attachment in children.
Nick combines empathy, evidence, and scripts to help both clinicians and parents intervene and repair damaging cycles.
Drawing on clinical examples, research, and her own experience, Nick outlines how relational shame and nervous-system responses drive these patterns.
The book offers a framework for adults who grew up as 'good kids' to understand their internal parts, reclaim anger safely, and shift self-critical beliefs.
It also provides practical guidance and five parenting adjustments to reduce shame-based parenting and support healthier attachment in children.
Nick combines empathy, evidence, and scripts to help both clinicians and parents intervene and repair damaging cycles.
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Kirk Honda
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Parentified Good Kids
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Andrea Ashley
217 - Good Kid, Quiet Wreckage: Relational Shame, the Silent Treatment & The War You Waged on Yourself w/ Maggie Nick
