This groundbreaking book presents a practical theory of health and disease that will revolutionize the way we look at illness.

If you wish to know what self-esteem depends on, how to nurture it in our children, support it in our schools, encourage it in organizations, strengthen it in psychotherapy or develop it in yourself, you need this book.

Affirmations are a way to discover personal awareness, spiritual potential and self-regard. Reading this book will give you an opportunity to nurture yourself and learn who you are and who you want to become.

We all come into this world full of promise and possibility. For some, when born into a healthy and highly functional family, the journey is quite easy, with guideposts and directions given freely. However, that is a very small population of people. Most of us were born into families that were in their own way struggling for independence, accomplishment, safety or security.

A powerful definition of dysfunctional families providing an explanation of what happens and how it can be rectified.

Author(s): John C. Friel, Ph.D., Linda D. Olund Friel, M.A.

Words can inspire, motivate and change us if we let them. Words can lift us to action. Words can move us to anger and rage or to love and tears. Most important, words can heal.

In this expanded edition Janet Woititz, the mother of the ACoA movement, provides wisdom and information for all Adult Children of dysfunctional families.