The Abandonment Recovery Workbook

A powerful workshop-in-a-book for healing from lossnnnnOne 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 youll never love again.nnnnBut there is a way out. In iThe Abandonment Recovery Workbook/i, the only book of its kind, psychotherapist and abandonment expert Susan Anderson explores the seemingly endless pain of heartbreak and shows readers how to break freewhether the heartbreak comes from a divorce, a breakup, a death, or the loss of friendship, health, a job, or a dream.nnnnFrom the first shock of despair through the waves of hopelessness to the tentative efforts to make new connections, iThe Abandonment Recovery Workbook/i provides an itinerary for recovery. A manual for individuals or support groups, it includes exercises that the author has tested and developed through her decades of expertise in abandonment recovery.nnnnAnderson 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 journeyshattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, and liftingthis book (a new edition of Andersons iJourney from Heartbreak to Connection/i) serves as a source of strength. You will come away with a new sense of selfa self with an increased capacity to love.nnnnPraise for Susan Andersons The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: nnIf there can be a pill to cure the heartbreak of rejection, this book may be it. nn Rabbi Harold Kushner, bestselling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleAdditional ISBNs: 9781608684274, 160868427X, 9781608684281, 1608684288