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Journey From Abandonment To Healing (Paperback)

by Susan Anderson (Author) "WHEN a relationship ends, it is painful for both people, but the pain is especially debilitating for the one left behind ..." (more)

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Berkley (TRD); 1 edition (Mar 1 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425172287
ISBN-13: 978-0425172285
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 318 g

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Like Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying, Susan Anderson's book clearly defines the five phases of a different kind of grieving--grieving over a lost relationship. An experienced professional who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than two decades, Susan Anderson gives this subject the serious attention it deserves. The Journey From Abandonment to Healing is designed to help all victims of emotional breakups--whether they are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether they are caught up in patterns that sabotage their own relationships, or they're in a relationship where they no longer feel loved. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery.

"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

In the tradition of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's On Death and Dying--but dealing with the grief over the loss of a relationship
Helps readers work through the five universal phases of abandonment: shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, lifting
Includes hands-on exercises for managing pain and rediscovering the capacity for love

About the Author

Susan Anderson, CSW, is a psychotherapist who has specialized in helping clients deal with heartbreak, loss and abandonment for more than 25 years. She has led workshops on abandonment recovery, conducts seminars and lectures, and has appeared on radio and television speaking on the related issues of addiction, parenting and abandonment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Lord lead me to this book!, Aug 3 2007

By	Jeanne Mulloy (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

I have been experiencing the deepest grief in my life for the past two years over the failure of my marriage of 27 years. Nothing I seemed to be trying to do to heal myself or any of my friends or family were giving me any sense of hope or comfort that I could come out of this a whole person again. Before I read this book, I thought I was going crazy even though my threapist said I was normal!

For anyone who has lost a loved one through death or divorce - READ THIS BOOK! Susan's tremendous capacity to empathisize in her writing about this subject was the catalyst that led me back to my Lord Jesus Christ and to being born again. This book gets right to the crux of why we are not healing on our own. Understanding that Abandonment is the biggest issue for those of us who are left behind in death or divorce, is the beginning of the healing process. Coupling this understanding with the knowledge and faith that God will NEVER abandon us and will in fact be with us every step of the way, to comfort, heal and give us His grace and unconditional love is the final step to the end of the "Abandonment Journey" for me and the magnificent beginning of my new life.

Another book to follow "Journey" is "Love Lost" by Dr. Hawkins. His approach is more scriptural than
"Journey" but he follows the same path as Susan concerning how to heal from Abandonment and the phases we go through. He also gives some encouragement toward reconciliation as a possibility.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quality help for abandonment recovery!, Jul 19 2004

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Dr. Susan Anderson has masterfully articulated the experience of abandonment as only a survivor of abandonment could know. She is a survivor herself. Her book, The Journey From Abandonment To Healing, keeps a gentle, respectful tone towards the survivor, and is easy to understand throughout.

This book clearly articulates what I struggled to put into words about the abandonment symptoms I was experiencing. Abandonment is defined as an involuntary separation. Some symptoms include loss of control of the situation, separation anxiety and yearning for the lost love, hoping for the possibility of the lost love's return and the desparation caused by this desire.

The book also covers in great detail the physiology behind emotional withdrawal symptoms of abandonment, including the loss of opioids (hormones) which is similar to heroin withdrawal; the significance of extreme changes in appetite patterns; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; memory loss; the desire to self-medicate to endure the loss; and how society acknowledges those grieving over a death but not over a lost love.

Finally, Dr. Anderson gives some effective exercises in overcoming the crippling symptoms of abandonment. The exercises are not "pat" answers as found in some mainstream books and magazines. These are extensive, healing exercises requiring vulnerable, self-introspection.

I hope this helps someone else out there, too. It sure saved my sanity and all for the modest price of a book -- not an expensive block of therapy sessions!

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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book, Mar 3 2004

By	Cody Brown (boise, id) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this book after reading about it a few times on the web expecting a typical self help relationship book, I was really suprised by what I found. This book is an extrememly helpful guide not only for navigating the waters of a break up, but most i9mportantly using the break up to enhance you life and to come out of it more grown. I can't recommend this book enough for those that are willing to put in the work that this book asks. But that is the clincher of the process that this book presents, it is work. This book doesn't offer a quick fix or a band-aid for the pain of abandonment. It does offer something infinitely more important-a vessel in which to really find yourself, and resucue yourself from the distress and abandonment that we all have within ourselves.

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