From Heartbreak to Healing

Self-Help

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Synopsis

Fixed - 10/23/2020

From Heartbreak to Healing is a comprehensive introduction to a common but often unrecognizes family dynamic called parental alienation, which is a serious form of both child and spouse abuse that occurs when one parent turns their child against the other parent for no justified reason—often during divorce or separation. It is a serious form of both child and spouse abuse that occurs throughout the world.

This go-to book for parents who do not know what to do when their child rejects them, is based on the author’s personal experience as an alienated parent years before the experience had a name. It reveals her story and how she healed her own grief, summarizes her research of the literature on this new field of parental alienation, and shares the results of the author’s nation-wide survey to interview other rejected parents firsthand about their experience of alienation.
Topics include:

What parental alienation is and how it works
Who teaches their child to reject the other parent and why
Stories of other alienated parents
How to find and screen parental alienation-qualified professionals
What works to resolve alienated relationships
Next steps YOU can take to help erase and prevent parental alienation

As a recommended resource on the International Parental Alienation Sudy Group website, this book is an excellent resource for social, legal, and mental health professions who want to understand and provide best practices to families suffering from parental alienation.

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Author Biography

Cara is the author of the book, From Heartbreak to Healing: Resolving Parental Alienation After 43 years as an alienated parent with a professional background in child development and family relationships where she managed child development programs serving working parents and their children, plus a doctorate in children’s [innate]spirituality, she finds answers to her questions: “Why me? How did this happen? and What is the purpose?” Through a process of deep introspection, she overcame decades of depression, despite remaining unreconciled with her son. She has now discovered resources, formerly unavailable, that could have led to a different outcome.

Author Insight

Alternative Solution for Family Troubles

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Ben Franklin's wise saying can well be applied to dysfunctional family dynamics and family breakup. If parents learn the basics of interpersonal communication, principles of child development, and family relationship skills before ever becoming parents, much heartache from marriage breakup could likely be prevented. Waiting until the damage is done and then trying to sort out the disaster in family court with an adversarial system that pits one parent against the other in an attempt to "win," with children and financial support being the prize, is an outdated and inhumane solution that belongs to a past century. For more information about reimagining an alternative that uses supportive services rather than adversarial legal services, go online to www.TwoWishes.org.

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

One of the basic tenants of child development is that children need a relationship with both of their parents. It logically follows that an important factor in good parenting is for each parent to be willing to support his/her child’s relationship with the other parent. If a parent is not capable of carrying out this basic parenting function due to having a personality disorder, it is impossible for traditional family therapy methods to work.

Summing Up

The dynamics of parental alienation are complex. It is a form of intimate family violence that results in complex trauma, which is a trauma that occurs repeatedly and cumulatively over time within specific relationships. Parental alienation is a significant legal and public health issue that disrupts many aspects of a child’s development and formation of a sense of self. It interferes with a child’s ability to form a secure attachment and therefore interferes with the child’s ability to form relationships for the rest of his or her life.

It is important for parents caught in its destructive pattern to learn all they can about how it works to prepare themselves to counteract it effectively. Because this requires a counterintuitive response, target parents need to have an in-depth understanding of what they are going through, as well as adequate personal support and qualified professional guidance. See the Resources page at the back of this book to learn more

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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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Author Biography

Author Insight

Alternative Solution for Family Troubles

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

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