Broken Children, Grown-Up Pain: Understanding the Effects of Your Wounded Past

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Summary: Help for people with troubled pasts
Review: This book proved helpful to me as I search for answers to how to overcome an abusive marriage that harmed my children. It helps to explain why just wanting to be different than your parents isn't always easy.

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Summary: For Evangelicals Only
Review: This is a truly terrible book that I'm very sorry I purchased. Not only is the advice weak (and vastly different from other excellent books on this topic), but it is entirely phrased from an evangelical Christian perspective. What our "Creator" wants us to do is repeated every couple of paragraphs. As you can imagine, our "Creator" pretty much wants us to forget the abuse ever happened, and joyfully commune with God's plan. I feel that I was misled in purchasing this book, because it is portrayed as another useful self-help book, and the underlying evangelical message is not mentioned in the reviews. Although you may like this book if you are a fundamentalist, unfortunately, from a psychological perspective, the advice is very very poor. If you are not a born again Christian who believes all we need to do is pray, you will not be helped at all by this book. I'd like my money back.