In Every Bad, There’s Some Good─And A Lesson to Be Learned Twenty-four survivors recount their stories of living in a dysfunctional family. It isn’t always easy. You can’t choose your situation or where you come from, but you can choose the lessons you take away. Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family? Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and «the good stuff» that can come from the experience. «Throughout my many decades in recovery rooms I have interacted with thousands of women and men whose journeys reveal, in detail, the harrowing history of dysfunction that has troubled their lives,» says Casey. «But what is also apparent in their stories is their eventual and quite triumphant survival, often against extreme odds.» From 24 families rife with dysfunction. Casey interviews the survivors who emerged from the fires of a turbulent household to willingly share their stories and come to realize they had, surprisingly, thrived as the result of their often-harrowing experiences. In The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family , Casey reveals the stories and the skills these survivors developed to live more creative and fulfilling lives. In this book find tales that help you to: Realize lessons in disguiseAcknowledge your personal growthPoint out your own silver lining If you enjoyed books like Daring Greatly , Codependent No More , or Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , then you’ll want to read Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family .
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Karen Casey. Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family
PRAISE FOR KAREN CASEY
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Nourishing Resilience
Further Reflection
2. Choosing Perseverance
Further Reflection
3. Relishing a Sense of Humor
Further Reflection
4. Forgiving the Past and Growing Into the Present
Further Reflection
5. Surrendering the Need to Win
Further Reflection
6. Healing through Connection and the Power of Oneness
Further Reflection
7. Discerning Real Love
Further Reflection
8. Embracing the Strength of Kindness
Further Reflection
9. Honoring Detachment as a Life-Giving Force
Further Reflection
10. Listening from the Heart
Further Reflection
11. Seeing the Trap in Judgment and the Release in Acceptance
Further Reflection
12. Being Responsible and Letting Others Be Responsible
Further Reflection
13. Recognizing How Perfect Our Journey Has Been
Further Reflection
14. Going On, Going in Peace
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TO OUR READERS
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“Karen Casey captures the experience, strength, and hope that are essential to maintaining healthy relationships with each other and with ourselves.”
—WILLIAM C. MOYERS, author of Broken
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Resilience is a decision before it's anything else. And then it's a commitment to execute the plan.
I sat with my mother first, bless her heart. For sure neither of them wanted to be interrogated, but she did the motherly thing and agreed to go first. “Tell me about your life, Mom?” Almost immediately, the tears began to flow and then turned into sobs. “I never felt like a good wife, a good mother, and I didn't want you when I was pregnant with you.” Bingo. My counselor had nailed it. My life began to make sense. The abandonment issue that had plagued me my entire life was born in the womb. Having this confirmed at age thirty-eight shed light on my journey, a light that has never been dimmed.
