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For decades, popular psychology has promoted a simple explanation for adult pain: your parents are to blame. While this narrative may validate suffering, it often leaves people stuck-angry, estranged, and endlessly revisiting wounds without truly healing them. In this compassionate and thought-provoking book, Dr. Hope Telepova offers a different path forward. Drawing on more than thirty years of clinical, academic, and counseling experience, Dr. Telapova challenges the blame-based model of childhood trauma and introduces a balanced, relationship-centered approach she calls The Healing Sandwich. Rather than denying pain or dwelling in it, this method helps readers hold their truth without being consumed by it-allowing healing to occur without self-destruction or relational harm. This book is not about excusing trauma. It is about the personal responsibility for restoring inner peace, and learning how to live-and love-without carrying unresolved anger into their life and every relationship. With clarity, warmth, and depth, Dr. Hope shows how unprocessed resentment often prolongs suffering, while gratitude, forgiveness, and blessings create freedom. This book is for: Adults overwhelmed by anger, resentment, or emotional exhaustion Those who feel trapped in endless self-work with little lasting relief Adult children struggling to reconcile pain and connection Parents grieving estrangement and seeking peace without self-blame Ultimately, this book offers something rare: hope grounded in wisdom, healing without hostility, and a way forward that honors both truth and relationship.

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Dr. Nadezhda (Hope) Telapova, Ph.D., is a doctor of psychology, educator, researcher, and counselor with more than thirty years of professional experience. She has worked extensively with individuals and families navigating trauma, addiction, grief, and relational conflict across universities, teacher development centers, rehabilitation facilities, and international organizations, including ACET and TEARFUND. Dr. Telapova has contributed to over 200 publications, including scientific articles, monographs, and educational manuals focused on family systems, child development, co-addiction, domestic abuse, and trauma-informed care. Originally published in Russian, much of her work is now being translated into English. Her given name, Nadezhda, means ""hope""-a principle that defines both her work and her mission.

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