Psychotherapist and bestselling author, Susan Anderson, is a returning guest with a new book - The Abandonment Recovery Workbook. The founder of the Outer Child and Abandonment Recovery movements, Susan has devoted the past 30 years of clinical experience and research to helping people resolve abandonment and overcome self-sabotage

The word abandonment conjures up children left at birth, fathers packing up and moving out, sudden lovers betraying one another’s hearts, and sudden death.

But abandonment breaks our hearts in subtle ways, too, as when we are not recognized for our accomplishments, dismissed by a friend, or not invited to a party. It is a challenge that everyone must eventually face at one level or another.

In The Abandonment Recovery Workbook: Guidance through the Five Stages of Healing from Abandonment, Heartbreak, and Loss (New World Library, August 15, 2016), Anderson helps readers heal the wound of abandonment through a step-by-step process of personal recovery.

She guides them through the five stages of abandonment — shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, and lifting — by offering practical tools and exercises designed to help them find greater life and love than ever before.

The Abandonment Recovery Workbook will help readers:
• Overcome the heartbreak caused by the loss of love
• Heal the underlying abandonment wound from past or present losses
• Build self-esteem and overcome fear of rejections
• Resolve issues of mistrust and insecurity
• Identify self-defeating behaviors of the outer child
• Make better choices and build new connections