A life changer. Very insightful.

Forward says that healing is most effective when you proceed down the double track of changing self-defeating behaviors and disconnecting from traumas from the past. Frightening, but eventually very emancipating. After all, there were no physical scar...  Read More

Half the book is a catalogue of horrors inflicted on children by parents. She wants to label all abusive parents as monsters, and many aren't.

If simple repetition is so successful in dealing with shame and guilt - which are presumably amongst those pent-up emotions - why is it necessary for victims to refuse to forgive?