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Family Secrets - The Path from Shame to Healing Paperback – April 1, 1996

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What you don't know can hurt you—
but it can also lead to self-acceptance and healing.

Family Secrets gives you the tools you need to understand your family—and yourself—in an entirely new way.

In his bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw has transformed our understanding of how we are shaped by our families. Now join him on this fascinating journey of discovery, which starts with your life today and takes you back through the conflicts, the strengths, and the weaknesses of your parents’ generation—and even your grandparents’. Using a powerful technique for exploring your “family tree,” you’ll trace the visible and invisible patterns that have influenced you. You’ll learn about family secrets that are healthy and necessary, and also about the secrets that can limit your wholeness and freedom—even if you don’t know they exist.

This work is sometimes painful, but it is always enlightening—filled with the kind of “aha” moments and realizations that make everything fall into place. With John Bradshaw’s guidance, you will come to a new appreciation and acceptance of yourself. You will also be able to build more open, honest, and loving relationships with the people who matter most.

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Recovery specialist Bradshaw offers his insights into coming to grips with skeletons in the familial closet.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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All families have secrets. Some secrets are healthy. But others--those John Bradshaw calls "dark secrets"--limit the wholeness and freedom of every member of the family, often generation after generation.
John Bradshaw's compelling new book takes us into the heart of the family's mysterious power to impact our lives. It ex-plores how secrets are created, how they influence us (even if we don't know they exist), and the risks we take in exploring them.
At the core of "Family Secrets is a step-by-step guide to uncovering the secrets of the past and present, using a tool called the genogram to chart key relationships. Through many fascinating examples, this unique book shows how to recognize crucial gaps and silences, reconstruct missing information, and decipher partial memories.
It also offers readers vital advice on how to deal with the truths revealed, plus ways to stay safely and honestly connected with our families.
John Bradshaw's six-part PBS television series, "Family Secrets," first aired in summer 1995, and will remain in syndication in the United States and Canada through 1997. A second new series, "John Bradshaw on Eating Disorders," is also in circulation.

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Bantam (April 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780553374988
ISBN-13: 978-0553374988
ASIN: 0553374982
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 31 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #177 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Family Relationships > Dysfunctional Families
- #955 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age & Spirituality > Mental & Spiritual Healing
- #3858 in Books > Self-Help > Personal Transformation

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Kandice S Wallace

John Bradshaw is one of the greatest contributors on the "cultic family" and narcissism

October 25, 2015

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John Bradshaw is one of the greatest contributors on the "cultic family" and narcissism. You can't have a cultic family without one or more narcissists contained within, and the cultic family and their dynamics are drawn to the larger religious cults at large. Toxic family secrets where everyone is required to adhere to a rigid dogmatic family script, without them even knowing the toxic secret, is one of the hallmarks of the cultic family. The toxic secrets must be cleared, and love and acceptance must prevail.

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Sandy Rodgers

The Secrets Will Kill Us!

February 13, 2013

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John Bradshaw has been one of my favorite authors for a number of years now. Mainly because he can explain situations that allow you to see yourself 'in it' so that the information provided helps you along your path. In this book I felt affirmed in the sense that we must tell the truth of our history, family or culture. I have stood my ground in asking, insisting that we learn to tell the truth and that only by telling the truth can we actually be free. Free to love and free to Love!

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D. Ames

HELPFUL - OBJECTIVE - IMPORTANT DIALOG

April 6, 2015

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I like the non-judgmental perspective of this book. Although I happen to believe that holding secrets may cause dis-ease or subtle health issues because we are not fully living in our TRUTH, I do respect the dilemma of holding back information for the sake of harmony and well-being of others. This book presents the choices we have, and suggestions for how to assess when to reveal, and when to keep hidden. I recommend this book simply because it opens up important dialog over the issues of family secrets and how they affect us.

In the end, I have to say it is always best to check with one's conscience, and follow the path to the greatest peace, no matter if you face rejection or abandonment. Our personal health - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual - trumps any other criteria. When we are TRUE to our deepest sense, then we are in a position to give the best help to others. This book is an oldie, but a goodie.

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Tim Josling

Insghtful and powerful

July 16, 2006

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Family Secrets provides powerful tools for understanding the dynamics of families, and understanding how you may have become unknowingly enmeshed in patterns that can persist for generations.

The most valuable parts of the book are the techniques for uncovering family secrets, and the method for bringing all the information together in such a way that it makes sense. These techniques are practical and really work. I made several major discoveries about families I am involved with as a result of this book.

Bradshaw includes many new insights about how families work throughout the book.

Overall, highly recommended.

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Craig Shaw

A great book for all that have been affected by secrets ...

May 19, 2016

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A great book for all that have been affected by secrets that were prevented from being told. Everyone deserves to know the truth and this book show why secrets can harm people and families.

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scott hosimer

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Very insightful. Wish I could get my family to read it.

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Sometimes "heavy" feeling but practical and insightful

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Interesting book very enlightening

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