Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on August 28, 2019
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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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on August 13, 2019
I think we’re more vulnerable than we used to be, especially young people whose self image is just forming and are impressionable by what other people think. Transcript: Social media triggers abandonment. You know, that feeling of not having the life that everyone else seems to be having or not being liked as many…as much … read the full article
Categories: Abandonment, Self Esteem, Self Sabotage
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on June 12, 2019
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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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on May 22, 2019
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
Categories: Abandonment, abandonment recovery, healing from abandonment, heartbreak
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on May 15, 2019
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
Categories: Abandonment, abandonment recovery
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on May 6, 2019
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
Categories: Abandonment, abandonment recovery, Break Ups, Divorce, Self Esteem
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on May 2, 2019
Transcript: I think social media can really have a devastating impact on a person’sself-image. And young people, I think, are especially vulnerable to worrying about how they fit in and how well accepted they are and how many other people like them and how they’re doing in comparison to how everyone else seems to be … read the full article
Categories: Abandonment, anxiety, how to overcome self sabotage, Self Esteem
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on May 25, 2017
You don’t need to change something all the way to make a huge difference in your life. You don’t have to go all the way from being codependent to being non-codependent, or from low self-esteem to high self-esteem. You need only to be in the process of improving it – even if progress is slow … read the full article
Categories: Abandonment, abandonment recovery, healing from abandonment, how to overcome self sabotage, Relationships, Self Esteem
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on April 10, 2017
My social media team, who devotedly administrates my pages, suggested that we come up with a list of “best quotes” – bite size insights – that you have strongly responded to. Thank you all for offering thoughtful comments, sharing your personal stories and struggles, and sharing our words with your own family and friends. Live … read the full article
Categories: Abandonment, abandonment recovery, anxiety, healing from abandonment, how to overcome self sabotage, Self Esteem
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on February 27, 2017
Susan Anderson © March 2017 Download the PDF version here. [email-download-link namefield=”YES” id=”11″] Please see my comments at the end of item # 40. An intense fear of abandonment. Difficulty forming primary relationships. Intrusive insecurity that interferes in your love life, social life and goal achievement. A tendency to repeatedly subject yourself to people or … read the full article
Categories: Abandonment, PTSD, ptsd and abandonment
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Posted by Susan Anderson, Psychotherapist on October 7, 2016
© Susan Anderson September 28 2016 Overview There was a big response to my first article describing the characteristics of PTSD of Abandonment – so many abandonment survivors writing in with open hearts to describe the way abandonment trauma has been affecting their emotional responses and their behavior patterns. The list below depicts typical symptoms experienced by people struggling … read the full article
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