Setting Yourself Free: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in Family, Friendships, Work and Love
SaraKay SmullensOverview
An exposition of the dysfunctional cycle which inflicts profound wounds and shows how to reconcile the past, start to heal and live an abuse-free life.Synopsis
Emotional abuse, like a bad gene, passes from generation to generation in a vicious cycle. It creates sad, angry, and fragile children who grow up and perpetuate the cycle as bitter adults. But the cycle can be stopped: Setting Yourself Free enables readers to confront painful emotional injuries and break free of the emotional-abuse trap.
Publishers Weekly
Freedom and Inner Peace Marriage and family therapist SaraKay Smullens has written a book about a problem she says plagues children and adults of all levels and backgrounds: emotional abuse. Setting Yourself Free: Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse in Family, Friendships, Work and Love explains the five common types of emotional abuse (rage, enmeshment, overprotection, abandonment and neglect) and offers advice on how people can put an end to it. Smullens bases her book on her counseling work, and her recommendations are appropriately realistic. In the end, she says, facing reality, no matter how stony its path, is the only path that can free your present and future. (July) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.