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

If You Are an Alienated Parent . . .

If you are a parent suffering from rejection by a child, two of the most common feelings are helplessness and hopelessness. To counteract this, the book excerpt outlines some concrete action steps you can take to both address the rejection AND to help yourself regain a sense of control and renewed hope. These steps will help you understand the complex dynamics that cause the rejection so you know what you are dealing with and can effectively strategize your action, as well as help you identify the professional help needed to counter it. To become more informed, you can learn more about The PARAENTAL ALIENATION STUDY GROUP (Go to : pasg.info). This is an international organization open to both alienated parents and professionals who help parents deal with it, including mental health experts who specialize in PA; legal professionals, and those who do research on this topic. You may also access a database of PA research from Vanderbilt University Medical School (https://ckm.vumc.org/pasg) that makes accessible the latest research available at no cost. This year their annual PASG2021 Conference (available for streaming online) is about “protecting family ties after separation, NOW! Prevention is better than cure.” You can register for streaming or in-person attendance at: Welcome - FAMILYTIES2021.EU

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

Action Steps

• Follow parental alienation experts on social media and blogs by myself and other PA experts for up-to-the-minute information.

• Join a local parental alienation support group—or start a new one.

• Offer to do a talk about Parental Alienation to a community group.

• Become active in one of the parental alienation awareness organizations,

• Suggest a school-based intervention to teach problem-solving skills to children experiencing divorce or separation (such as critical thinking skills).

• Contact your state legislators to express your concern and views about what your state needs. Find out if your state has a default custodial recommendation of equal parenting time and whether it contains provisions to assure adequate assessment to prevent alienated children from being forced to live with an alienator.

• Volunteer to be on a State Task Force to explore needed legislation.

Be Part of the Solution
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Cara E Koch

From Heartbreak to Healing

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Author Insight

If You Are an Alienated Parent . . .

Book Excerpt

From Heartbreak to Healing

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