Welcome to Abandonment Recovery
Going through heartbreak? Loss? Aloneness? Uncertainty?
Start your healing journey. Anytime. Anywhere. We have lots of help — tools, workshops, online groups, videos that guide you through all five phases of abandonment recovery; books, audiobooks, a workbook, training seminars, contact, a community, and more.
No matter where you are on the abandonment spectrum, the program helps you resolve not just your current heartache, but the underlying primal wound of abandonment – the source of insecurity, anxiety and depression, isolation, low-self-esteem, and self-defeating patterns.
Suffering a recent heartbreak or lingering wounds from the past?
Alone, can’t find a relationship or getting love to last?
Insecurity is self-defeating?
Attracted to the unavailable?
Suffering a recent heartbreak or lingering wounds from the past? Alone, can’t find a relationship or getting love to last? Insecurity is self-defeating? Attracted to the unavailable?
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I am Susan Anderson, psychotherapist and founder of Abandonment Recovery. Trying to overcome abandonment trauma, shame and anxiety can seem overwhelming, but the program treats the source of the problem to help you find greater life and love than before.
I developed the special tools of Abandonment Recovery while recovering from my own adult abandonment trauma. I want to show you how to redirect the energy within abandonment’s wrenching pain toward empowering the deepest possible recovery and growth: Akēru.
I’m making these life-changing tools available to you through a series of videos you can download where I guide you step by step through a program of Abandonment Recovery, or you can access this Program through my books or workshops.
The program has been helping thousands of people all over the world resolve their abandonment wounds past and present, and it will help you, too.
Do you have abandonment issues?
Suffering a recent breakup or lingering wounds from the past?
Alone, can’t find a relationship or getting love to last?
Attracted to the unavailable? Does insecurity keep interfering?
Your sense of self is rising, your quest for love fulfilling.
Join us on a Journey from Abandonment to Healing
Learn about the Special Tools and Exercises of Abandonment Recovery
What people are saying
“As an abandonment survivor, I recommend Susan’s work to those in the thick of despair. In the days I was at my worst, I remember reading The Journey from Abandonment to Healing, and it was the first time I felt understood, less alone, and with a road map out of the depths of despair. I am forever grateful and continue to follow her work.”
— Toni Kohn
“If there can be a pill for heartbreak of rejection, this book [Journey from Abandonment to Healing] may be it.”
— Rabbi Harold Kusher, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
“Every sentence [in Taming Your Outer Child] was a new insight.”
— Susan Peabody, author of Addiction to Love
“The Abandonment Recovery Workbook is a life-saver. It has a full arsenal of tools and steps to get your life back and heal your wounds.”
— Anon
People who have followed The Program say…
“Thank you for writing Taming your Outer Child. I have read MANY self-help books, looking for solutions to my abandonment issues that have plagued every romantic relationship of mine since childhood, and your book provided lightbulb moments and glimpses of clarity. I appreciate your researching and writing on this issue and identifying the Outer Child. Your book has provided me with hope for change.”
— C.L
“I came to Susan when I felt my world was falling apart. Not only is she an empathetic and warm presence, but she completely understands abandonment from inside out. It has been invaluable to have someone articulate and validate the turbulence that comes with abandonment and to do so from a place of expertise and compassion.”
— Anon
“The Journey from Abandonment to Healing" was a game-changer for me! Now I can recognize why I'm triggered, and I have a process of self-care that allows me to navigate just about anything with internal compassion and strength! Deep gratitude to you, Susan!”
—Lyn G.
“The Journey from Abandonment to Healing is the book that changed my life forever. I can now understand my patterns, what created them and how to fix them from the root. It is just what it says - a journey. I’m still on mine. But the birth of mine started with this book. Thank you.”
— Katrisha Gibbs
What Susan Says
“Surviving a loss of love brings you on a journey to the center of the self, where a molten core of primal emotion simmers. The program helps you redirect this energy toward building a healthy new relationship with yourself, and increasing your capacity for love and connection: Akēru.
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Please contact me with your comments, or tell me your abandonment situation (or share your Outer Child patterns). I will keep your message confidential.