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SaraKay's most recent book,
Setting YourSelf Free,
is heralded as a helpful guide to to the confrontation of painful
emotional injuries, placing the past in perspective, letting go of
old hurts and grasping new opportunities for happiness in love,
family, friendships and work. There are numerous exercises and
guidelines offered to achieve this goal.
Setting YourSelf
Free is the sequel to
Whoever Said Life is Fair? (see
below) A 20-year effort, the book identifies five cycles
of emotional abuse that begin in childhood and, without
intervention, destroy potential and opportunities of individuals,
marriages, families, friendships and communities -- with dangerous
societal implications. |
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Five cycles of abuse are identified and dealt with:
- Enmeshment
- Complete Neglect
- Abandonment
- Rage
- Extreme Overprotection
Readers learn to identify the cycles of
emotional abuse that have continued in their
own lives. They learn methods for dealing with abuse, getting beyond it, and
stopping themselves from repeating abusive cycles.
Professionals who deal with victims of
emotional abuse, such as doctors, nurse practitioners, teachers,
clergy or social workers will find
Setting YourSelf Free to be helpful. (Professionals
may want to link to the Professionals section on this website.)
Additionally it can be used as a handbook by parents who want to
extricate their children from these cycles of abuse by learning to
halt behaviors that are emotionally abusive and dictatorial.
Publishers price: $14.95
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"Happiness is our own responsibility -- ours and ours alone."
"Dignity is what saves people when they are met
with betrayal. The state of dignity begins with love".
This is a small dose of the wisdom SaraKay Smullens develops during the journey she takes in her book
Whoever Said Life Is Fair? A
Guide to Growing Through Life's Injustices |
After separating from her first husband, SaraKay spent the next few
years exploring her own thoughts and attitudes, and comparing them
to the circumstances life dealt her. Her goal was to learn
what kept those who faced loss, betrayals, negatives and cruelties
from "falling through the cracks of life." This inspiring book will
help readers take the same sort of journey, and learn about
survival, no matter how difficult
their circumstances.
Publisher's price: $ 9.95
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