Just as you're ready to kick up your heels with the new found freedom of an empty nest, it fills up again, this time with a full-fledged adult or someone who s supposed to be. Whose Couch Is It Anyway? provides great solutions,clearly and cleverly told. Blissfully free of psychological jargon, it just has answers. --AR Taylor: Sex, Rain and Cold FusionAs the mother of millennial children, torn between wanting them to live at home again and wanting to help them prosper in the new world order, I found the case studies in Whose Couch Is It Anyway? refreshingly authentic. Lichtman and Goldberg offer insight into the universal condition of parenthood and provide practical solutions for how to move forward with purpose. --Anne Kreamer: Risk/Reward: Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices Are The Best Career Moves You Can MakeThis valuable book is full of warmth, insight, and helpful advice on managing the inevitable stressors that arise when adult children move back home. The authors wisdom and experience come through on every page. --Shelley Taylor, Ph.D.: The Tending Instinct: How Nurturing Is Essential to Who We Are and How We LiveAbout the AuthorPhyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. and Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. have been good friends and colleagues for 35 years. Having guided thousands of clients in their individual private practices, they offer a wide range of professional knowledge and experience. They blog at HerMentorCenter.com and publish a monthly newsletter, Stepping Stones. Both are graduates of Dr. Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness coaching program, and apply positive psychology in their mentoring work. Whose Couch Is It Anyway? is a joint collaboration about letting go of boomerang kids and teaching smart strategies to help tackle family transitions head-on. why do you love to read Whose Couch Is It Anyway: Moving Your Millennial
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Warm, thought-provoking stories about relationships across generationsBy Richard Newman, Ph.D.Each of the books five chapters portrays a family scenario involving complex interpersonal relationships. The books authors, Phyllis Goldberg and Rosemary Lichtman, are family therapists who deal everyday with such scenarios. Over the years, Goldberg and Lichtman have compiled and condensed stories from their vast experience. Here, they share stories and discuss how theyve personally listened to and counseled family members.Scenarios typically involve a Millennial child (actually an adult) who has returned home to live with a mother (and father). Often there are hassles involving financial and personal matters, intrusiveness, and limit setting. There can be differences between parents memories of the millennial when he or she was a child and parents perceptions of the millennial in the present, as an adult. Likewise, the millennials perceptions of present-day parents may not jive with his or her memories of earlier parenting. When millennials are sandwiched between their parents and their own spouses and young children, situations can become complicated and dysfunctional.The book is extremely thought-provoking. It can be useful for training counseling and coaching professionals, and it can be useful for individuals who encounter difficult family situations and scenarios in their personal lives. Different generations occupying the couch at different times form the core of real-life dramas---sometimes tragic and sometimes even humorous.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I met these authors once in person and liked them immediatelyBy Susan A. LiebermanI met these authors once in person and liked them immediately. I like them even more after reading their book. They write well and think well. These five composite stories about parents dealing with adult children moving back home are instructive and helpful for any of us facing such a situation. Although Whose Couch Is It Anyway aims especially at mothers dealing with returning children, I think the way Goldberg and Lichtman diagnose underlying family conflicts and then suggest strategies for problem-solving are helpful for all kinds of family conflicts. This book is a book -- really a conversation on paper -- both warm and wise.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Millenials and BoomerangsBy Mrs. DrenesWhose Couch is it Anyway? is a helpful resource for understanding "millenials" who are "boomerang" kids.