Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression

Someone pushes your buttons. You feel rage, fear, sweaty palms, unbidden tears—you feel like a kid.

We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional regression to the general reader, bestselling author John Lee identifies the circumstances that cause these seemingly uncontrollable feelings and shows how they are directly tied to our experience as children.

No adult, explains Lee, ...