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Repeat After Me

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Whether you are a recovering alcoholic or an adult child of an alcoholic, this book will open your eyes to the devastation of alcohol abuse. Very helpful workbook format that is ideal for discussion groups. Easy to follow...easy to read...easy to understand. I highly recommend it!

This book is designed to bring issues to the surface, where they can be dealt with. That's a good thing, but it is WORK. I recommend using this book only while in therapy. It may bring up issues that are too difficult to deal with on your own. And some of it may be quite painful for a while. But the process works.

This is a workbook for adult survivors of various kinds of abuse. I have used it in my law practice to assist young women who are facing the monumental decision of placing a child for adoption. Although this book is not new, it certainly deserves a place on your library shelf if you are in a helping profession or you work with teens or adults who have these issues. The book is designed to be used as a self-help manual to rebuild an individual's self-esteem.

This is a work book designed to help ACOAs break free of the constraints of their upbringing. I am an ACOA and, like you reading my review, wanted to believe that re-training my thinking and outlook through these text book exercises would improve my life. I am sorry to say that is NOT realistic. The book is juvenile and tiresome with it's page after page of lists of feelings and events. Also, it is nothing more than her earlier book "It will never happen to me" with these exercises punctuating each paradigm. My best recommendation would be to purchase her original book and save your time, hope and money by passing over the temptation to commit to Repeat after Me work book. The original book is quite insightful and thought provoking on it's own. Good luck.

I was recommended this book by my psychologist. It is a work book for the adult children of alcoholic parents.
By work book, I mean there are exercises to complete which force you to remember things you had long ago either forgotten or shoved aside, and it can be a fairly painful and difficult process. I have to attempt the exercises in small steps, because it makes me an emotional wasteland for a while after. Some of the tasks include, family tree, event recollection, and assessing your own emotions.
So far, I haven't gotten much from the book, it seems to give you many, um, excuses as to why we feel the way we do, behave the way we do and view the world differently from the so-called "normal" people. I am not very keen on the feeling I get from this book of being a victim. Though, as helpless children forced to grow up in abusive situations, we are victims, but as adults, we've moved beyond the victim role into something else. While it's not exactly mentally healthy to repress, it is our way of coping with our past. Forcing all the pain from our past to the surface is excruciating, and I met it with a lot of resistance. It takes time, and I urge you, as awful as the initial feelings are, don't give up, grit your teeth, and proceed.
I suggest that if you feel this book may help you in some capacity, use it in conjunction with professional therapy of some type, as it helps to have someone view your answers and talk about them with you.

This is probably the best tool of its type that I've seen for identifying significant past influences on current behavior and feelings, and for identifying effective strategies for addressing and dealing with those often limiting feelings and ingrained behaviors. I recommend it to all who are serious about freeing themselves from the constraints of a less than perfect past and creating a healthier, richer, emotionally freer future.

Repeat After Me by Claudia Black is a wonderful tool for adults to use in dealing with an alcoholic parents in childhood. The first part of the book deals with memory exercises. It helps you remember the little details fo childhood such as, the arrangment of your childhood home. The second part is a bold look at feelings and why you felt the way that you did. This is the best self-help book I have ever read. It is structured like a workbook. Each chapter contains work in a specific area; memory, losing control, and feelings, etc. This book has all the benefits of working with a psychotherapist without the cost and stigma attached to therapy. I highly recommend this book to anyone.

I haven't ordered this book yet, but it was recommended my pshyciatrist. As for causing more pain, well, when it comes to matters like these, it's going to happen. I will be using this in conjunction with medication to help me out of my depression, caused by my mentally abusive childhood. It usually gets worse before it gets better...No pain, No gain...I am doing this for me and my family.

This is an excellent book to aid therspists or individuals to continue to move forward in becoming aware of how their family system affected them. This is really the first step in recovery. I love this book!

This book contains some nice information and is a worthwhile read.