Dear Abandonmates,

We have helped many of you set up Abandonment Support Groups. The workbook, "Journey from Heartbreak to Connection," provides complete directions for doing so. As you’ll see, it’s as easy as following a recipe. Become a member to receive additional support – hands-on help – for running groups.

Abandonment Support Groups are facilitated by abandonment survivors on a peer-to-peer basis. An easy-to-follow self-help format and 60 topic questions are available – enough to keep your support groups running for a year or more.

These groups promote profound personal change. They not only bring you out of isolation, but show you how to help your community.

Abandonment Support Groups promote positive peer pressure, inspire insight, raise self-esteem, and make a critical difference in your recovery.

Go to find a group to see if abandonment support groups exist in your area.

Become a member to post your newly forming groups or to make requests to join a group.

FACILITATOR’S GUILD
Abandonment Specialists provide troubleshooting for your abandonment support groups. Join Facilitator’s Guild.

ABANDOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
The most effective way we know of to break the self-sabotaging pattern of abandoholism is through abandonment support groups. If you think you’re the only one caught up in cycles of abandonment, think again. Learning to become attracted to available partners is an enormous feat for many abandonment survivors. The task is to learn to stay away from the emotional candy – the hot pursuit of hard-to-get lovers. To break this cycle, you need to gain insight, motivation, and personal integrity. Abandonment support groups can really get you moving in this direction.

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See up and coming AUTHOR’S WORKSHOPS.

MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Therapists and counselors interested in running professional abandonment groups, can join Therapist’s Corner to receive the protocol for running professional groups, engage in a Q&A with specialist, and to post their services.

AUTHOR’S VISITS
Some members and organizations invite the author to come and give workshops and seminars and/or do onsite training to help them develop ongoing Abandonment Recovery programs. Susan Anderson handles each request individually.

Abandonment support groups allow people to reinforce and enhance each other’s recovery. People need support to overcome abandonment wounds past and present. And they need motivation to take action to change their lives. Sharing common experience can do that – can put positive peer pressure to work. Coming together, abandonment survivors share their progress with the many challenges they encounter, as well as with the SWIRL process, the Swan’s Twelve Steps of Emotional and Spiritual Healing, and the Akeru exercise program. The group provides emotional support and an opportunity to make new connections, make important breakthroughs, raise self-confidence, and make significant changes.