Are you still stuck with the dysfunctional coping strategies you learned as a child? Adults who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home often adopt behaviors to deal with the Chaos and neglect around them -- behaviors that no longer work for them as adults. Repressing spontaneity, over-controlling, reacting impulsively from fear, and rejecting our own playfulness are just some the coping mechanisms that become obsolete and destructive when carried into adult life. Author Megan LeBoutillier grew up in an alcoholic home, and in Little Miss Perfect she shows how any Adult Child can move from the of helpless victim into a healthier, empowered stance of independence and self-love. Her guide to self-healing offers hands-on exercises that include: -- Journal writing -- Special stress management for ACOAs -- Dream work -- Body awareness -- Affirmations and Visualizations Filled with these and other recovery tools and insights, Little Miss Perfect is a compassionate handbook for recovering people who are ready to refashion the world of the past to suit their present needs.

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This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction. Instead, a miracle happened, and transcribed and photocopied texts began to circulate in science fiction circles, gaining a wide and incredulous audience among both professionals and fans. It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose.