The Fragile Ego's Defense: How Wounded Pride Becomes a Weapon Against Others: Book 7 of The Reversal Series - Couverture souple

SHOEMAKER, FRANKLIN; SHARRETT-SHOEMAKER, TONYA

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ISBN 13 : 9798194267101

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

This book was not planned. It was summoned.
Over the years of our work at Dr. RAD The Attachment Code Breaker in Lakeland, Florida, we have had the privilege and the weight of sitting with people whose lives had been organized, often without their awareness, around a single invisible force. That force was not addiction, not circumstance, not bad luck. It was the fragile ego of someone close to them — a parent, a partner, a supervisor, a sibling — whose own unprocessed wounds had calcified into a defensive architecture so formidable that no one in their orbit was permitted to grow, to disagree, or to simply exist without being shaped by its demands.
We began to notice the pattern with striking regularity. Clients would come to us describing very different relationships and very different circumstances, yet the emotional choreography was nearly identical. Someone in their life could not tolerate being wrong. Someone in their life responded to any perceived slight or failure with an intensity that felt wildly disproportionate. Someone in their life had developed an extraordinary ability to make everything — absolutely everything — about themselves, even when it was clearly not. And those around that person had learned to walk on glass, to shrink, to over-explain, to preemptively apologize for needs they had never expressed.
What struck us most was not how obvious the dynamic was from the outside, but how invisible it was to those living within it. The person in the fragile ego's orbit had often adapted so completely that they no longer trusted their own perceptions. They had absorbed the ego's narrative — that they were the problem, the unstable one, the one who needed to change. Our work, again and again, became the work of carefully and gently handing people back their own truth.
And yet we also recognized that the person with the fragile ego was not a villain. They were, in nearly every case, someone who had been wounded early, wounded deeply, and given no language, no permission, and no safe space to acknowledge that wound. Their defenses were not cruelty for cruelty's sake. They were survival strategies that had outlived their usefulness and metastasized into harm.
This book is our attempt to hold both realities simultaneously: to name the damage clearly, and to trace it back to its human origin. We wrote it for those who have been on the receiving end of a fragile ego's arsenal. We wrote it for clinicians seeking a framework for this under-named phenomenon. And we wrote it, quietly, for those who may recognize something of themselves in these pages — because recognition, however uncomfortable, is always the beginning of the only kind of change that lasts.
It is a privilege to bring this work to you, and an even greater privilege to continue it, every day, in our community in Lakeland, Florida.
— Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker & Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker
Lakeland, Florida, 2026

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798194267101
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 149
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