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

by Paul Hegstrom

Book Overview

Despair. Emotional isolation. Self-loathing. Immaturity. Abusive actions. These are just some of the damaging fragments that remain embedded within our personalities, behaviors, and souls when we are broken as children. The memory of the past may seem distant and clouded, but within its scars deep wounds remain that continue to inflict pain upon our adult lives--and often end up spilling into the lives of others. In Broken Children, Grown-Up Pain,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834122510
• ISBN13: 9780834122512
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

not just a book about what the problem, but how it CAN be healed

This book is a first hand book on the authors own life and his grown up pain that I believe we all have to some degree. It helps you to sort out and identify the part/parts that are a part of the cycle of pain. The author also points you to the solutions for coming out on the side of wholeness and the steps to begin the process.It has my wholehearted recommendation.

Excellent insight

Excellent insight as to why we do the things we do and more importantly, what to do about it. Wonderful book!

Excellent explaination for inner healings

Very informative to learn why we don't understand the whys and where all our personal problems came from. Good counseling to help in unlocking our wounded pasts and how they have by our natural make-up set in motion body functions that have to be re-wired to correct and live freely productive and prosperous lives. How traumas really affect us physically, mentally, emotionally as well as spiritually.

Answers

This book provides an excellent complement to Paul's previous book on domestic violence. "Broken Children", reaches deeper into the hearts and minds of those who abuse and the people who find themselves living with abusers. Victims can identify with the helper and rescuer discussions and find motivation for change. Abusers can discover the root of their problems and address the shame vs. guilt thinking that motivates their behavior. This is another wonderful effort by Dr. Paul Hegstrom that gives answers to some of life's toughest problems.

Help for people with troubled pasts

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.