This work examines the family's mysterious power to affect our lives. The book explains how secrets are created, how they influence us, and the risks and benefits of exploring them. With the aid of a genogram, the book provides us with a step-by-step guide to uncovering the secrets of the past and present. There are many case studies which illustrate how we can recognize crucial gaps and silences, reconstruct missing information and decipher partial memories. The book provides advice on how to deal with the truths revealed and shows us ways to stay safely and honestly connected with our families.
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Admittedly a huge fan of Mr Bradshaw, I found this book paved the way for a huge step forward in my own development. Doing the exercises was pretty uncomfortable (who really wants to open the family's skeleton cupboard?) but - as often happens - my family mysteriously started offering fresh insights, without any prompting from me! Our instincts generally tell us if family holds the key to missed cues in our own behaviour. For anyone who feels ready to investigate, I recommend this book most enthusiastically .
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By Steve C
Format:Paperback
I'm a professional counsellor and frequently recommend this title to clients. And interestingly, my counselling colleagues often borrow it and it can take a while to get it back!
A readable summary of Family Systems Theory and John Bradshaw's own invaluable personal history all make the first half of the book alone hugely valuable for anyone that has a family or comes from one...
The help in constructing your own genogram will be useful to many but not necessarily all.
A good book to read after or before this by the same author is [...].
A readable summary of Family Systems Theory and John Bradshaw's own invaluable personal history all make the first half of the book alone hugely valuable for anyone that has a family or comes from one...
The help in constructing your own genogram will be useful to many but not necessarily all.
A good book to read after or before this by the same author is [...].
By Kefkat
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This book was recommended to me 2 and a half years ago and it paved the way of the work I was doing on myself for the next stage I was ready for. John Bradshaw book truly bought me the freedoms and answers I had been searching for all my life.
The title of my review sums this up: John book, tasks and exercises especially the family tree, set me free from a history fed to me full of secrets and lies, half truths, things I knew yet had not got the right connectors for.
The book is not for the faint hearted and in many cases I think it is advisable if you have a trusted advisory/counselor/sponsor and the like you are working with who can feed back to you appropriately.
''You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free'' is so true for me. It bought together the climax of my 7 years of input followed by another 2. It enabled to see without playing victim why I had done the things I had done and the places I had been because I was searching for answers and acting out to find them.
Alot of those answers came to me over the years I was searching for yet what John book enabled me to do was to connect all the loose ends so I had the tapestry not just pieces of a jigsaw that weren't fitted together.
It freed me from the bondage of guilt, shame, and ties and shown me the truth, for I was a prisoner to my family with a physical locked door. It shown me why I had to go where I did to unlock the doors of my life to unlock my family of origin.
I can not recommend this book highly enough.
If you are reading these reviews there is a reason and I strongly suggest you buy this book. I have recommended it too many since, worked through it with many since and will continue to recommend it to those I believe with benefit.
The book holds revelations, tears, hurt and all the other feelings that are human to man however it shows you how to deal with them, acknowledge and accept on the journey of life.
The title of my review sums this up: John book, tasks and exercises especially the family tree, set me free from a history fed to me full of secrets and lies, half truths, things I knew yet had not got the right connectors for.
The book is not for the faint hearted and in many cases I think it is advisable if you have a trusted advisory/counselor/sponsor and the like you are working with who can feed back to you appropriately.
''You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free'' is so true for me. It bought together the climax of my 7 years of input followed by another 2. It enabled to see without playing victim why I had done the things I had done and the places I had been because I was searching for answers and acting out to find them.
Alot of those answers came to me over the years I was searching for yet what John book enabled me to do was to connect all the loose ends so I had the tapestry not just pieces of a jigsaw that weren't fitted together.
It freed me from the bondage of guilt, shame, and ties and shown me the truth, for I was a prisoner to my family with a physical locked door. It shown me why I had to go where I did to unlock the doors of my life to unlock my family of origin.
I can not recommend this book highly enough.
If you are reading these reviews there is a reason and I strongly suggest you buy this book. I have recommended it too many since, worked through it with many since and will continue to recommend it to those I believe with benefit.
The book holds revelations, tears, hurt and all the other feelings that are human to man however it shows you how to deal with them, acknowledge and accept on the journey of life.
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