The Abandonment Recovery Workbook: Guidance through the 5 Stages of Healing from Abandonment, Heartbreak, and Loss

by Susan Anderson

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, 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 free—whether the heartbreak comes from a divorce, a breakup, a death, or the loss of friendship, health, a job, or a dream.

From the first shock of despair through the waves of hopelessness to the tentative efforts to make new connections, The Abandonment Recovery Workbook 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.

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 a source of strength. You will come away with a new sense of self—a self with an increased capacity to love.

Praise for Susan Anderson’s 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

Genres: Self Help, Psychology, Relationships, Nonfiction, Health, Mental Health

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 7, 2016

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book saved me. Susan deserves the Pulitzer or even a Nobel prize.

[T Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

No one has addressed abandonment issues in a way that truly brings resolution . . . until now. Everyone goes through abandonment at some point in their life. The funny part is, because the connotation of abandonment is "leaving a child or family" for the most part, people do not realize that's not the whole story. This book provides an all-encompassing perspective of what abandonment truly is: loss, rejection, being overlooked, bullied, ostracized, shamed, ignored, the list goes on. We've all been there. Someone hurts us - we feel pain. Sometimes horrific pain. How do we deal with the abandonment we feel? There is a way to get through and move on and it's all in this book. Simple and easy tools that help heal your heart so you’re not stuck. You become stronger and more confident so you can make good decisions and move forward with your life. The author's own life experience led her to discovering these tools that helped her heal and she now shares them with all of us so we may heal better and with awareness. This workbook is just that, a workbook. Follow it, DO IT, and move on to a better life for you and your family. It's not hard - you just need to read and do. Simple. Easy. Thank you Susan Anderson for bringing to the forefront a topic that has for too long, been swept under the carpet. If you have any questions about why a relationship ended, why you keep choosing the same type of people to engage with or how to heal from a loss of any kind, this will most certainly benefit you greatly on your journey.

[Parvathi Jayakumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life changing. Excellent work.

[Dee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has recently gone through a breakup. I just exited a 3-year relationship and engagement. This book helped me get over my ex much faster than I would have on my own. I can look at the relationship with more objectivity than before and am able to move on. This book shows helpful coping mechanisms and applicable recovery tactics. A definite must-read for anyone going through a bad breakup! Grateful to have run across this book on Scribd.

[Tulasi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most important self help book I've laid my hands on. Practical, clear and effective. My life has definitely changed after reading it. Do all the exercises and you will see the effects. Excellent!

[Rmarie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Susan Anderson takes you on a journey that you never wanted to go on, but you will be forever grateful you did. If you do the work in the book, your life will be better. My husband abandoned me after 37 years. I was devastated. Ms. Anderson helped me reclaim my self-esteem. She can show you how to regain your life also.

[Zoireth Liendo · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book did helped me but it was a bit hard to read for me. I don't know if it was because I was so broken inside that anything looked good for me or that my memories from then are dark. However it's a book that helps identifying and recognizing your emotions.

[Tristy at New World Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

Endorsements:
“Practical, insightful, informative, and ideal for use as a therapeutic counseling tool, The Abandonment Recovery Workbook is unreservedly recommended.”
— Midwest Book Review

[Kamarun Kalam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very down to earth practical and easy to use! Recommended to several of my therapy clients as homework in between sessions.

[Ida Wilcox · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Going to go get the physical book. But GOOOOOOOD STUff.

[Lynsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent resource for anyone entangled in the tight grip of abandonment. I’ve completed the book twice, each time for different reasons, and each experience was unique and life changing.