THE ADAPTED SELF Book 1

By Ruth Ellerby · 5 parts · 5 h 19 min · English

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Nobody chooses their defenses. A child made to choose between being authentic and staying attached chooses attachment every time, and the defense that was brilliant at seven is still running the life at forty-seven: as anger standing guard over hurt, as numbness, as an inner courtroom that never adjourns, as a character hardened around an old protection, and as a body that keeps the ledger. The first book of The Adapted Self follows pain into personality. It takes apart the idea of normal, argues that understanding a wound is not the same as excusing it, and shows how injuries nobody can see, from misattunement to the absence of a witness, shape a life as surely as the visible ones.

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Books in this series

1. THE ADAPTED SELF Book 1

   5 parts · 5 h 19 min

2. THE ADAPTED SELF Book 2

   4 parts · 4 h 18 min

3. THE ADAPTED SELF Book 3

   4 parts · 4 h 33 min