NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Coping with the Decline and Death of Toxic* Parents: *Wounding/Absent/Narcissistic/Traumatic

Multi award-winning and bestselling author Nick Nolan’s No Place like Home: Coping with the Decline and Death of Toxic* Parents offers professional perspectives on the dying parent who was seldom – if ever – emotionally supportive of their child. While chronicling his violent father’s decline and death from diabetes and probable Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (Concussion Syndrome), Nolan interviews three adult survivors of child abuse, as well as eight licensed clinicians specializing in family systems, women’s issues and Christianity, People of Color, LGBT clients, military PTSD, child sexual abuse, and neurology. Whether the dying parent was wounding, absent, narcissistic, or toxic (or was the parent who looked the other way), No Place Like Home offers multiple standpoints on the anger, guilt, and resentment survivors of familial abuse and neglect often feel when aiding their offending parent. With contributions by Adrian Aguilera PhD; Aaron Aronow MD; Cissy Brady-Rogers LMFT; Carol Cushman LCSW; Teresa DeCrescenzo LCSW, LMFT; Lawrence J. Martin PsyD; Edward Reed EdD; and Allen Ruyle LCSW.*Wounding/Absent/Narcissistic/Toxic

When you were growing up, were your parents either WANT (Wounding, Absent, Narcissistic, or Traumatic) or LOW (they Looked the Other Way)? And now that they are in failing health, do you find yourself feeling anger and resentment, even as you do your best to be compassionate and helpful? If so, NO PLACE LIKE HOME might offer you some eye-opening perspectives from the eight licensed, experienced, and compassionate clinicians I interviewed. Tying this all together is my memoir of being raised by a violent father with probable Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (more commonly known as "Concussion Syndrome") and a clinically depressed mother, interwoven as an uplifting story of perseverance, love, and triumph. I believe you'll find some helpful information here, and I hope you enjoy the story -Nick Nolan