Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt As Children (Paperback)

~ (Author) "This book emerged from a deep feeling of necessity, from my response to workshop participants, clients, and people I've never met personally who have called..." (more)
Key Phrases: cognitive tree, inner child parts, therapeutic dissociation (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review

An insightful, compassionate, practical and readable guide for survivors of hurtful childhoods. (Gloria Steinem )

Nancy Napier has added to the healing literature for adult survivors of childhood trauma. . . . In reading this book, I continuously thought of how useful it would be to any of my current patients. (Christine A. Courtois, Ph.D., author of Healing the Incest Wound )

This book provides valuable tools for adults abused as children. The title is too modest. The techniques provided not only help 'get through the day' but also empower the reader to gradually mitigate and eventually overcome the effects of painful past experiences. (Yvonne M. Dolan, author of Resolving Sexual Abuse )

Product Description

Getting Through the Day enables adults who were traumatized as children to learn new strategies to meet the demands of daily living. Counselor Nancy Napier presents dozens of exercises helpful to anyone who finds that unresolved childhood feelings are blocking life's path.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (September 17, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393312429
• ISBN-13: 978-0393312423
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,988 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Napier's book has become a security blanket for me!, July 13, 1998

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This book is a must-have for anyone who used dissociative strategies to survive physical, emotional, or sexual abuse as a child; their therapists, and support people. Napier does an outstanding job of explaining what it means to be dissociative, and how to cope with it. She also offers advice for multiple personalities.

A particularly useful chapter covers how to find a therapist and what the therapist-client relationship should be.

I have purchased copies for members of my support family as the book does an excellent job of demystifying dissociation and multiplicity.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Relief may be found within these pages!, February 25, 2001

By	Brenda "Brenda" (Atlanta GA USA) - See all my reviews

Time and time again, I have come back to this book for grounding. For validation. For understanding. For direction...and it never lets me down. It is true that the author of a book can only... really.... take you as far as he/she has gone themselves! This books leads the way to what all other self-help books should aspire too! Absence of ego and a genuine sense and practical advice on how to move from point A to point B! I can not reccomend this book highly enough! Out of all the other books that I have on the subject...... this one... hands down... is the one that sits upon my night-stand! It is invaluable!!!!!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Help When Day-to-Day Living is a Struggle, January 22, 2003

By	E. Myers (Southern CA, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sometimes daily life feels like climbing a hill through molasses. Even those who don't have MPD may have inner children (teenagers, pseudo-adults) who seem to be at war with each other, or extreme emotional reactions left over from childhood. This book has a wealth of strategies for soothing those inner selves in the context of the demands of daily living. If that was all, that would be enough for me to recommend this book, because I don't know of another book on the market that deals with practical strategies for daily life in terms of these inner selves (with suggestions for those who do have MPD). But I also appreciate the empathetic tone of the book. Sometimes that kind of tone, however well-meant, can come off as sappy or condescending, but I felt that here it was warm and sincere. I'd also like to recommend two other books: "How to Love Yourself When You Don't Know How" and "Internal Family Systems Therapy." Both are wonderful books about these inner selves and how they function in us. And while they don't deal with the day-to-day struggles and strategies that this book does, they are also resources for exploring the subpersonality issues that affect so many of us.