Best 10 Books On Abandonment Issues

1. The Journey from Abandonment to Healing

By Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson, a therapist who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than thirty years, offers help to all victims of emotional breakups—whether you are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether you are caught up in patterns that sabotage your own relationships, or you’re in a relationship in which you no longer feel loved.

From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery.

2. Taming Your Outer Child

By Susan Anderson

Veteran psychotherapist Susan Anderson offers a three-step program to tame your Outer Child – the part of you that acts out and fulfills your legitimate childlike needs and wants in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in counterproductive ways.

The books offers dynamic, transformational set of strategies — action steps that act like physical therapy for the brain — to calm your Inner Child, strengthens your Adult Self, releases you from the self-blame and shame at the root of Outer Child issues, and paves new neural pathways that can lead to more productive behavior.

3. Love Me, Don’t Leave Me

By Michelle Skeen

In this book, therapist Michelle Skeen combines acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), schema therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help you identify the root of your fears. 

You’ll learn how schema coping behaviors―deeply entrenched and automatic behaviors rooted in childhood experiences and fears―can take over and cause you to inadvertently sabotage your relationships.

4. The wound of “abandonment”

By Daniel Dufour

Resuming contact with your deep self and your emotions is the first step for you to flourish in your relationships.

This book includes case histories, analysis and advice, that provides everything that can help you heal to love better, that is to say, to love without fear of being abandoned.

5. Unlovable

By Morey Ostlund

Unlovable is memoir meets how-to guide.

Morey shares the exact 8 steps she took to gain radical freedom from those painful childhood wounds. When she quit searching for love in all the wrong places and took a chance on God, He healed all her broken pieces.

6. Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery

By Susan Anderson

The book shares twelve lessons for healing from the loss of love, presented in an allegorical tale of a child who meets a magical black swan after she is abandoned in the forest by her father.

The book provides emotional and spiritual healing to those going through heartbreak, loss, and abandonment.

7. Changing Course

By Claudia Black

In her book, Claudia Black extends a helping hand to anyone overcoming the complex trauma of growing up in an impaired family system.

The book is a gentle, affirming guide to healing from childhood experiences of loss, abandonment, fear, and shame through carefully crafted questions, charts, exercises, and real-life stories of people impacted by various types of family impairment.

8. Healing the Shame that Binds You

By John Bradshaw

This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.

9. The Abandonment Recovery Workbook

By Susan Anderson

A powerful workshop-in-a-book for healing from loss.

Psychotherapist and abandonment expert Susan Anderson explores the seemingly endless pain of heartbreak and shows readers how to break free—whether the heartbreak comes from divorce, a breakup, a death, or the loss of friendship, health, a job, or a dream.

10. Finding Peace

By Troy L. Love

Finding Peace is the fusion of a fictional storyline and a workbook that describes the Core of Peace, a model of healing from the wounds of loss, rejection, abandonment, betrayal, neglect, and abuse.

This book is for anyone serious about healing these attachment wounds, ready to become honest about changing their life, and willing to be vulnerable.