Synopses & Reviews
Through therapists and word-of-mouth, thousands have discovered this formerly out-of-print classic. This is because abandonment stemming from divorce, breakups, death, or the loss of friendship, health, a job, or a dream is a challenge faced in every life. No other workbook so directly and practically addresses this issue. Readers learn to face five stages shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, and lifting with concrete recovery tools, including discovering and healing old, underlying issues; identifying self-defeating behaviors of mistrust and insecurity; and building self-esteem. While healing from heartbreak and freedom from pain are the goals of most sufferers, readers also lay the foundation for experiencing a renewed, perhaps better-than-ever, sense of self and a profound ability to love and be loved.
Review
Praise for the authors
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing:
If there can be a pill to cure the heartbreak of rejection, this book may be it.”
Rabbi Harold Kushner, bestselling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Synopsis
A powerful workshop-in-a-book for healing from loss One day everything is fine. The next, you find yourself without everything you took for granted. Love has turned sour. The people you depended on have let you down. You feel you'll never love again.
But there is a way out. In The Abandonment Recovery Workbook, psychotherapist and abandonment expert Susan Anderson explores the seemingly endless pain of heartbreak and shows readers how to break free--whether the heartbreak comes from divorce, a breakup, a death, or the loss of friendship, health, a job, or a dream.
The Abandonment Recovery Workbook provides an itinerary for recovery. A manual for individual or support group use, it includes exercises that the author has tested and developed through her years of expertise in abandonment recovery.
Anderson provides concrete recovery tools and exercises to discover and heal underlying issues, identify self-defeating behaviors of mistrust and insecurity, and build self-esteem. Guiding you through the five stages of your journey--shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, and lifting--this book (a new edition of Anderson's Journey from Heartbreak to Connection) serves as as a source of strength. You will come away with a new sense of self--a self with an increased capacity to love.
About the Author
Psychotherapist
Susan Anderson, founder of the abandonment recovery movement, has thirty years experience working with the victims of trauma, grief, and loss. The author of
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing (over 100,000 copies sold), she offers workshops throughout the world and lives in Huntington, New York.