The body never lies... When we fall ill, when we suffer from depression, when we succumb to anorexia nervosa or any kind of substance addiction... an internal conflict rages within us between what we feel and what we would like to feel. On one side, there is our body, which retains intact the memory of our personal history, especially the abuse we may have suffered from our parents during our childhood, and on the other side, there is our spirit and our desire - according to the dictates of Morality and traditional upbringing - to love and honor our parents, no matter what has happened, even if they mistreated us.

This book analyzes with many and varied examples - several from the lives of great writers - the sometimes dramatic consequences of this conflict, but also the reasons why, today, there is still hope.

No, we are not obliged to remain "good" children if our parents have harmed us and if they continue to use emotional blackmail.

Yes, it is up to us to pay due attention to the warning signals our body sends us.

Yes, at the end of this difficult path that we have to traverse in order to reexamine the history of our relationship with our parents, we can find true inner peace and freedom.