The TurnAround Mom: How an Abuse and Addiction Survivor Stopped the Toxic Cycle for Her Family--and How You Can, Too! [Paperback]

Carey Sipp (Author), George H. Gallup Jr. (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2007

If you grew up in a dysfunctional, abusive, or addictive home, you are intimately familiar with violence, uncertainty, and suppressing your feelings. What you may not know, though, is how to create a sane, structured, and serene home for your own family when you never experienced these things yourself. Now you can.
 

Part courageous memoir, part influential how-to guide, The TurnAround Mom offers the tools you need to end the legacy of toxicity. With chilling vignettes from author Carey Sipp's own abusive past, plus the tips and techniques she used to turn her life--and thus the lives of her children--around, this stirring story will be the daily touchstone that you and your family deserve.

Carey Sipp is a parent-education advocate, an addiction and abuse survivor, and the mother of two children. Visit the author at www.turnaroundmom.com

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book (The TurnAround Mom) is an action plan to save your family in these toxic times!"

- Jack Canfield
author, Chicken Soup for the Soul; CEO, Chicken Soup Enterprises

(Jack Canfield )

"The TurnAround Mom is a model of recovery that creates the potential to end generational cycles of addiction."

Claudia Black, Ph.D.
author of It Will Never Happen to Me (Claudia Black, Ph.D. author of "It Will Never Happen to Me" )

"Everyone, including therapists, should read this down-to-earth book. It deepened my recovery, and I believe will touch your heart."
--John Lee, M.A.
author of Flying Boy and Growing Yourself Back Up (John Lee, M.A. )

"This book (The Turnaround Mom" will help salvage many lives and restore homes to peace and sanity"

--George H. Gallup, Jr.
Chairman, The George H. Gallup International Institute

"Tough, honest, and to the point about how to take responsibility for your life and your kids, no matter what the damage, destruction, and dysfunction in your own upbringing."

--Dr. Laura Schlessinger, author of Bad Childhood--Good Life

(Dr. Laura Schlessinger )

About the Author

Carey Sipp, the dynamic author of The TurnAround Mom, is an addiction and abuse survivor and parenting education advocate. She is a frequent speaker on the issues of breaking addiction cycles.

To stop the heartbreaking cycles of addiction and abuse destroying our families, she believes Americans must break our collective addiction to what she calls toxic intensity, "the mother of all addictions."

A divorced single mom for 11 years, Carey was married in 2005 and now has three adult stepchildren in addition to her teenage son and daughter. Visit the author at www.turnaroundmom.com

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: HCI (May 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0757305962
• ISBN-13: 978-0757305962
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #400,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring part memoir part self help, October 3, 2007

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Inspired reader (atlanta, ga United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The TurnAround Mom: How an Abuse and Addiction Survivor Stopped the Toxic Cycle for Her Family--and How You Can, Too! (Paperback)

This great book helped motivate me to change and be the kind of mom I want to be. Ms. Sipp in her honest and open account about her life and her process to change inspired me and now I buy a book for all the women in my life to inspire them. Thanks!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Turnaround Mom - An Inspiring Story, September 5, 2007

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J. Garcia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The TurnAround Mom: How an Abuse and Addiction Survivor Stopped the Toxic Cycle for Her Family--and How You Can, Too! (Paperback)

In The Turnaround Mom, Carey Sipp goes back into her past and shares with us how living life with an alcoholic and violent father was. She offers us the tools to end the legacy of toxicity. She shows us how victims of family abuse and domestic violence can overcome their past and serve as role models for their children.

Her book inspires and demonstrates how it is possible to break the cycle of addiction and raise healthy, happy children. I think it was GREAT.....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This little gem of a book can benefit ALL mothers!, June 17, 2008

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Kim Richardson "Postpartum Counselor and Moth... (Michigan, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The TurnAround Mom: How an Abuse and Addiction Survivor Stopped the Toxic Cycle for Her Family--and How You Can, Too! (Paperback)

As a psychotherapist working with postpartum depression ([...]) and a Life Coach working with new mothers ([...]), I found this book to be one of the simplest and most profoundly useful books on parenting I have come accross.

I have shelves and shelves of books on parenting and none of them demonstrate and describe so clearly how easily the cycle of dysfunction and abuse is transmitted across generations; and how this does not need to take place.

It's message is very uplifting and hopeful. No matter how bad things were in your family of origin, you CAN break the cycle of abuse and neglect and create a working, functional family for your children. Carey Sipp demonstrates how it can be done: It takes courage, self-reflection and self-honesty, yes! But she goes further than that, there are practical steps you can and must follow: extreme self-care, recovery from addictions, the dedication to building a support system and then consistently asking for help and feedback from your community and friends, and the willingness to slow down and think things through.

Each chapter focuses on one of these necessary changes and is beautifully organized into four parts:
1. A description of an aspect of the authors own toxic childhood
2. A description of how she almost repeats that aspect with her own children
3. How she manages to turn it around and be a functional mother
4. Practical steps for how the reader can turn it around.

I recommend this book to all moms. There is something here for each and everyone of us.