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

Is Family Court the Answer?

Watching the evolution of the COVID pandemic, one of the most important take-aways is the importance of family relationships—and their fragility. We are likely facing an avalanche of family breakdown due to the recent emotional and financial stress on families. Considering the already overburdened situation with family courts, is it not time to ask, “How do we best ensure the safety and long-term wellbeing of children when parents split up?” Pondering that question leads one to question the use of family courts and legal professionals as the best resource to address the interpersonal problems of marriage and family. What if, instead, we looked to professionals who specialize in interpersonal relationships and family dynamics? Someone who can help families prevent harm before it starts so when parents do break up in the future, all family members are better equipped to avoid the damaging outcomes of today? Right now we have the best opportunity in generations to give our children a better chance. Can we acknowledge that family breakdown is a major health and social issue, and that family law is not the best suited avenue to address it? We have the knowledge and expertise to create new and better ways of assuring the wellbeing of all families, whether or not a marriage stays intact.

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

Family Courts Are Overburdened

Family court systems are overburdened, according to recent research. High caseloads (over 600,000 cases in New York State family courts in 2012 alone) result in hearings that must wait over a year to enforce violations of visitation ordered by the court. If any sanctions are applied, it takes even longer. The net result of these delays is that the behavior of parental alienators often goes unchecked. This is the reason so many of the children in reunification programs may not have seen their target parent for years.

As I discovered in my survey of target parents, one problem with the court system is that many target parents believe that legal professionals do not fully understand parental alienation. They do not seem to recognize that the parental rejection does not stop just because the child gets older, or that the court has a responsibility to intervene.

Most parents interviewed by researchers investigating the court system have lost their faith in finding justice through the family court. They also found that courts often do not seem to use scientific information about child development to make their determinations.

In summary, parental alienation is a frequently unrecognized trauma to both children and target parents that negatively impacts most of us through extended family, friends, school systems, and other social structures. This raises the question:

Why do we, as a society, stand by while an epidemic of child abuse rages on?

Chi ldren are being damaged for life by being turned against one of their parents in the frequently unrecognized brainwashing process called parental alienation.

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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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Is Family Court the Answer?

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From Heartbreak to Healing

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