Kimberlee Roth

foreword by Randi Kreger

A step-by-step recovery guide for adult children raised by a parent with borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Growing up with a borderline personality disorder (BPD) parent can leave deep and lasting emotional wounds. Many adult children of borderline parents remember walking on eggshells around a volatile, manipulative, or unpredictable mother or father - never knowing what might trigger anger, withdrawal, or emotional chaos.
If you were raised by a borderline mother or father, you may still struggle with guilt, shame, self-doubt, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, or lingering trauma from childhood. In many families affected by BPD, children experienceparentification - being forced into the role of caretaker for a parent whose emotional needs overshadow their own.
Surviving a Borderline Parent is the first step-by-step guide written specifically foradult children of parents with borderline personality disorder . This compassionate and practical book helps you understand how growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally unstable family environment shapes your thoughts, relationships, and sense of self - and how you can begin healing.
In this guide, you'll learn how to:

• Understand the impact of growing up with a borderline personality disorder parent
• Recognize patterns of manipulation, emotional instability, and controlling behavior
• Heal from childhood trauma, neglect, and parentification
• Reduce guilt, shame, and self-doubt rooted in growing up with a toxic parent
• Build healthier boundaries and relationships as an adult
• Decide whether - and how - to confront a borderline parent about their behavior
• Begin recovery through therapy, validation, and practical coping strategies

Drawing on insights from psychotherapy and approaches such asdialectical behavior therapy (DBT) , this book offers clear tools to help you process anger, grief, depression, and confusion while reclaiming your emotional independence.
If you spent your childhood walking on eggshells around a borderline parent, constantly trying to manage someone else's unpredictable emotions, this book provides the understanding and validation you may have never received. Most importantly, it offers a path toward healing from a toxic parent, recovering from childhood trauma, and building a life defined by stability, self-respect, and healthier relationships.
You cannot change the past - but you can change the patterns it left behind.