Love With Open Hands: The One Shift That Turns the Most Strained Parent-Child Relationship Into the One Both of You Choose - Couverture souple

Okonah, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1965551203 ISBN 13 : 9781965551202

Editeur : Dao Publishing Company Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

Love With Open Hands

The Parent Who Loves the Most Isn't Always the One Who Holds On the Hardest

Are you the parent who lies awake replaying conversations that went wrong — loving your teenager completely while watching the distance between you keep growing, no matter how hard you try?

You are not a bad parent. You are a devoted person. And somewhere along the way, the devotion became the problem.

Love With Open Hands is the science-backed, story-driven guide for parents of teenagers and young adults navigating the hardest transition in modern parenting — releasing a growing child while your relationship strains under the weight of fear-driven love. Grounded in attachment theory, adolescent neuroscience, and Self-Determination Theory, this is the parenting book that finally answers the question every overwhelmed parent asks at 2 am: How do I stop losing my child to the love that holds too tight?

This is not a book about loving your child less. It is a book about loving them in a way they can actually feel.

Here's What You'll Discover Inside:

• Why the harder you hold on, the further they pull away — and the one reframe that changes everything

• The grief nobody talks about — your child growing up and away is a real loss. This book names it, honors it, and shows you how to move through it so it stops driving every anxious parenting decision you make

• The Fear Audit — a compassionate self-assessment mapping your controlling behaviors to their emotional roots: Where does care end and control begin?

• The WALLS Framework — five proven stages: Witness your patterns, Acknowledge their cost, Loosen your grip, Listen with genuine curiosity, and Soar into the relationship you always knew was possible

• The Three-Hand Method — the real-time diagnostic tool no other parenting book provides: a three-second check before a reactive response undoes a week of progress

• The Love Without Walls System — a complete 6-week transformation: a journey, a map, and a compass in one place

This Book Was Written for You If:

1. You are a parent of a teenager or young adult struggling with emotional distance and a strained relationship
2. You want to let go of control without losing the connection
3. You are navigating parent-child estrangement — or sensing it approaching
4. You have tried mindful parenting, relationship books, and therapy — and are still searching for the HOW
5. You want to stop walking on eggshells with your teenager and rebuild trust, and many more

What You'll Achieve:

→ Clarity without shame about the fear-driven patterns masquerading as love → Real-time tools that work in the three seconds before everything falls apart → A repaired relationship built on genuine trust — not managed outcomes → Co-parenting alignment and a calmer, more connected home → Your identity back, rediscovered outside the intensive parenting role → The voluntary relationship: your child calling simply because they want to

Don't Wait for the Distance to Become Permanent.

The window to reshape this relationship is open right now. Somewhere between the slammed door and the silence that followed, there is a version of your relationship with your child that neither of you has reached — yet.

Love With Open Hands is the bridge.

The parent your child is waiting for is not a different person. It is you — finally free from the fear that has been speaking louder than your love.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dao Publishing Company Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1965551203
• ISBN 13: 9781965551202
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg