But It's Your Family...: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath

Main Ideas

• The book reveals a painful but necessary truth: blood ties do not always guarantee love, care, and safety, and can sometimes be a source of pain and destruction. The author explores the nature of toxic family relationships with particular sensitivity and insight, showing how manipulation, emotional abuse, and betrayal can hide behind the mask of kinship. The central concept is that everyone has the right to inner freedom and emotional well-being, even if it means breaking ties with loved ones. Sherrie Campbell offers a path to healing: from recognizing and acknowledging toxicity to making the difficult decision to break away and then restoring one's own wholeness. A key idea is self-care, forming new boundaries, and rethinking the concept of family—as a space where respect, support, and love prevail, not fear and guilt. The book inspires the courage to be true to oneself, teaches how to let go of the past, and build a life filled with dignity, self-respect, and the light of new possibilities.