Get the downloadable version: [email-download-link namefield=”YES” id=”13″] The outer child program explained in Taming Your Outer Child shows you how to propel your life out of depression. Indeed, Outer Child can get stuck in depression, clogging up the works, making it hard to work your way through. The key to recovery is to nourish your Adult Self … read the full article
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Psychotherapist, Susan Anderson, answers the pressing question, “Why do I feel inadequate?” Transcript: I talk a lot about shame in my abandonment workshops because shame is something universal. We all have a vein of shame that runs deep within the self, and anything that comes along that causes us to feel dismissed oroverlooked can trigger … read the full article
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In this interview, I discuss what the primal abandonment wound is, where the shame is stemming from, and overcoming the fear of abandonment. I also share why my abandonment recovery program is different from all the other programs out there. For the transcript, see below. Elizabeth Lock: Hi everybody. I’m Elizabeth and welcome back to … read the full article
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Primal fears seep out of your Childhood abandonment wounds and traumas. Outer Child has a field day acting them out. Download the PDF version here. [email-download-link namefield=”YES” id=”7″] Our current abandonment fears are cumulative, reaching all the way back into our long lost childhoods. The abandonment wound is universal and consists of all of the little … read the full article
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Did your lover leave you? Do you want to know how to get over heartbreak but don’t know where to begin? Abandonment is a knife wound to the heart. It is highly vulnerable to infection and can leave scarring. Download the PDF version. [email-download-link namefield=”YES” id=”6″] Anyone suffering the loss of a love is in … read the full article
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© 2020 Susan Anderson The ending of a relationship is a time when friends, family, and sponsors are needed most –to provide direct emotional support. When someone experiences the loss of love, or feels they will never find someone to love, they are in kind of emotional crisis. Your willingness to reach out, listen to … read the full article
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Download the PDF version here: [email-download-link namefield=”YES” id=”12″] We all have shame. It’s part of the human condition. Some of us are more shackled by it than others. We can consider shame to be traumatic when it has an ongoing impact on how we feel about ourselves and function in the world. Shame works silently … read the full article
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Blaming yourself for your relationship’s failure to thrive is the most painful type of regret. Beating yourself for losing someone’s love is true agony. But more often than not, we do this when we’re dealing with a breakup. People often blame themselves for breakups, believing that their insecurity is what drove their partner away. Another … read the full article
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Abandonment Recovery is an innovation in mental health. We are happy to make the methods available to all of you – they make healing possible, not just from a recent heartbreak, but from your old abandonment wounds as well – the ones that have been festering just beneath the surface, eroding your self esteem and interfering … read the full article
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Are you attached to someone who doesn’t seem as committed as you are? Is there a lack of commitment in the relationship? Maybe they’re giving you double messages, keeping you at arm’s length, or pulling away when you try to get closer. Whatever the signs, your fear of abandonment has been triggered and you want … read the full article
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At one of my three-day workshops (at Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon – beautiful place!), one of the participants said he played the caretaker role in his relationship. He’d hoped that attending to her needs might insure that she would never want to ever leave him because he’d made himself so very valuable in her … read the full article
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Men are just as vulnerable to the abandonment wound as women. Men have the same reaction; there’s no limit to what men experience. It brings them to their knees the same way it does to a woman. Watch this video to learn more: Transcript: Interviewer: Susan do you feel like men have the same response … read the full article
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There’s nothing worse than being suddenly beset with intense anxiety and panic. It’s an emotional hijack — a hostile takeover by the fear center of your brain. The part of you that is usually reasonable and self-reassuring has been momentarily knocked out of commission. You feel out of control, helpless, demoralized by the emotional excesses … read the full article
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Someone wrote in and asked, “Is separation anxiety related to abandonment?” “Oh yes,” I resounded. Separation anxiety is the basis for all emotional distress – anxiety, depression, insecurity-in-relationships, fear-of-loss. Abandonment feelings trigger separation anxiety and separation anxiety trigger abandonment feelings. Let’s say you walk into a restaurant with your friends and you suddenly see your … read the full article
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One of the major reasons heartbreak hurts so much is the lack of closure. Sometimes remaining friends with your ex offers the opportunity to maintain a dialogue in which a greater understanding about the issues leading to the breakup can be exchanged. Other times, contact with an ex can prolong the pain and delay closure. … read the full article
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AKeRU is a Japanese word that means “to pierce, to end, to begin.” AKeRU is the name I’ve given to the five hands-on mental exercises that turn the pain of an ending into the beginning of positive change. AKeRU makes its debut in both JOURNEY books. AKeRU works with the natural flow of life process, … read the full article
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Do you know someone who stays in a bad relationship? What hooks them? The standard answer is that they don’t feel good enough about themselves. They don’t feel they deserve better. They have a low sense of entitlement. While self esteem is certainly a factor, many of these people started out feeling much better about … read the full article
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When someone rejects you they acquire power in your mind. They acquire power due to their ability to inflict pain. The more they hurt you the harder it is to let go. This is the painful paradox of abandonment. “Why does it take so long to get over it?” people ask. Those suffering from rejection … read the full article
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Heartbreak hurts so deeply because it pulls at that raw abandonment nerve we all share. It rips us open to the core, overwhelming us with powerful emotions – loss, despair, panic, shame, hopelessness – that seem all out of proportion to the actual event. Fortunately, we don’t have to suffer from abandonment pain for the … read the full article
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Future Self is the self we would like to become, the one we have every intention of becoming were it not for our patterns of self-sabotage that get in the way. Future Self is who we are today, except perhaps… thinner richer more spiritually evolved more confident more assertive less co-dependent, less people-pleasing happier more … read the full article
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Susan Anderson guides you through Five Stages that accompany a loss of love. Decades of research…
How to conquer self-sabotage, self-abandonment, procrastination, overeating, etc. and resolve your relationships
Revolutionary guidebook of step-by-step exercises for healing Heartbreak Loss Abandonment and finding Love. Hands-on help
By reading a simple story you gain deep emotional and spiritual healing. Cleansing Centering Connecting
