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“Through the power of story, You Are Not Your Mother: Releasing Generational Trauma & Shame speaks directly to the parts of our minds that most need to hear these messages. While our rational selves are busy learning the steps we can follow to unshame ourselves, our more tender parts get to experience what it feels like to be loved as we are.” —Simona Vivi H, founder of The Center for Remothering and of reMothering.org “In You Are Not Your Mother, author Karen C.L. Anderson unpacks the tricky territory of shame and how it can color your whole life and hold you back, unless you face it head on. Childhood can be a minefield of hurt, trauma, and shame both at school and at home with difficult parents. Anderson's revelatory courage in sharing her healing journey is inspiring and offers a roadmap to both mental health and the joy that comes from reclaiming your own life.” —Becca Anderson, author of Badass Affirmations “Both unflinching and compassionate, You Are Not Your Mother offers an unconventional perspective on how shame is passed down through our maternal lineage, and how women and those socialized as women can manage the often debilitating mind/body experience that is shame.” —Kara Loewentheil, author of the upcoming book Take Back Your Break  “This book invites you to be aware. You need that awareness as much as a conductor needs a score. Without that score, the orchestra will play poorly and we will not get music. Without awareness, you will repeat your pratfalls, retain your pain, never feel quite right, and, history tell us, harm the next generation. If you are not to be your mother, best open your eyes. This book is a gentle eye-opener.” —Eric Maisel, bestselling author of Why Smart People Hurt and Redesign Your Mind 

“Through the power of story, You Are Not Your Mother: Releasing Generational Trauma & Shame speaks directly to the parts of our minds that most need to hear these messages. While our rational selves are busy learning the steps we can follow to unshame ourselves, our more tender parts get to experience what it feels like to be loved as we are.” —Simona Vivi H, founder of The Center for Remothering and of reMothering.org “In You Are Not Your Mother, author Karen C.L. Anderson unpacks the tricky territory of shame and how it can color your whole life and hold you back, unless you face it head on. Childhood can be a minefield of hurt, trauma, and shame both at school and at home with difficult parents. Anderson's revelatory courage in sharing her healing journey is inspiring and offers a roadmap to both mental health and the joy that comes from reclaiming your own life.” —Becca Anderson, author of Badass Affirmations “Both unflinching and compassionate, You Are Not Your Mother offers an unconventional perspective on how shame is passed down through our maternal lineage, and how women and those socialized as women can manage the often debilitating mind/body experience that is shame.” —Kara Loewentheil, author of the upcoming book Take Back Your Break  “This book invites you to be aware. You need that awareness as much as a conductor needs a score. Without that score, the orchestra will play poorly and we will not get music. Without awareness, you will repeat your pratfalls, retain your pain, never feel quite right, and, history tell us, harm the next generation. If you are not to be your mother, best open your eyes. This book is a gentle eye-opener.” —Eric Maisel, bestselling author of Why Smart People Hurt and Redesign Your Mind  “Karen C.L. Anderson begins her compassionate book so that we can safely recognize shaming through her—in a timeline of her life experiences in prose poetry, rhythmically punctuating the emotional beats of shock, hurt, freeze, erasure, and breakdown. “As we further read, think, absorb, and realize the shame within us in stages of understanding, bringing us home to Self, Karen follows our thought processes and centers us in a conceptual framework with the tenderness of an embrace. “It is in the practices that the brave-hearted work begins, as Karen guides us in many ways to express and objectify our shame through creative, interactive, multisensory activities that move our experiences outward. These lively, improvisational practices delight and challenge since we are free to select, develop, and share their transformative power. “When we emerge from this deep journey of self-knowing in a reverse timeline with positive, life-affirming reflections of Karen’s experiences, we will have made the choice of worthiness, self-acceptance, and self-love, realizing that we are not perfect, but simply human.” —Kate Farrell, author of Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories 

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Karen C.L. Anderson is a storyteller who believes that the truth never creates suffering and that all stories can be told through the lens of truth. She is also a feminist, a writer, speaker, workshop presenter, and blogger who consciously chooses to live her life as an experiment and to view the world through the lens of curiosity and fascination. Her previous book, The Peaceful Daughter’s Guide to Separating From A Difficult Mother, is an international best seller, having sold well over 100,000 copies. In another life, Anderson spent 20 years trying to fit her right-brained self into a left-brained career as a trade magazine journalist in the field of plastics (and if she had a dime for every time someone mentioned that line from The Graduate…). She is married to a left-brained engineer and they live in Southeastern Connecticut. Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than fifty books including Why Smart People Hurt, Fearless Creating, Mastering Creative Anxiety, and The Van Gogh Blues. Widely regarded as America’s foremost creativity coach, he is a former psychotherapist, active creativity coach, and critical psychology advocate. Dr. Maisel writes the “Rethinking Mental Health” blog for Psychology Today, lectures nationally and internationally, and provides keynotes for organizations like the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. Dr. Maisel facilitates workshops in locations like Paris, London, New York, Dublin, Prague, and Rome, has provided hundreds of print, radio, and television interviews, and has taught tens of thousands of students through his classes with DailyOM. He can be found at www.ericmaisel.com and www.kirism.com and can be reached at ericmaisel@hotmail.com.

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