Background
Susan Anderson was born on July 2, 1946, in Pensacola, Florida, United States, to Dexter Griffith, owner of an advertising brokerage, and Barbara Griffith, a homemaker and volunteer teacher.
Susan earned two master's degrees at Stony Brook University; a Masters of Liberal Studies form in 1974 and a Masters of Social Work in 1983.
Susan earned two master's degrees at Stony Brook University; a Masters of Liberal Studies form in 1974 and a Masters of Social Work in 1983.
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Like Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying, Susan Anderson's book clearly defines the five phases of a different kind of grieving - grieving over a lost relationship. An experienced professional who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than two decades, Susan Anderson gives this subject the serious attention it deserves. The Journey From Abandonment to Healing is designed to help all victims of emotional breakups--whether they are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether they are caught up in patterns that sabotage their own relationships, or they're in a relationship where they no longer feel loved. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery.
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The fear of abandonment is one of our most primal fears, and deservedly so. Its pain is often overwhelming, and can leave its mark on the rest of your life. In the midst of the hurt, it’s hard to see an end to your feelings of rejection, shame, and betrayal. In this updated edition of the groundbreaking book, Susan Anderson, a therapist who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than thirty years, shares recent discoveries in neuroscience that help put your pain in perspective. It is designed to help all victims of emotional breakups—whether you are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether you are caught up in patterns that sabotage your own relationships, or you’re in a relationship in which you no longer feel loved. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery. Going beyond comforting words to promote real change, this healing process will help you work through the five universal stages of abandonment - shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, lifting - by understanding their biochemical and behavioral origins and implications. New hands-on exercises for improving your life will teach you how to manage the inevitable pain, then go on to build a whole new concept of self, increase your capacity for love, and find new love on a deeper and richer level than ever before.
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Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery is a self help tool, a supplement for personal growth. "Black Swan is a symbol for healing, a spirit guide for overcoming the woundedness of adandonment." Twelve lessons for healing from the loss of love, presented in an allegorical tale of a child who meets a magical black swan after she is abandoned in the forest by her father. This story within a story includes the author’s own experience with loss. The book provides emotional and spiritual healing to those going through heartbreak, loss, and abandonment.
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Susan Anderson was born on July 2, 1946, in Pensacola, Florida, United States, to Dexter Griffith, owner of an advertising brokerage, and Barbara Griffith, a homemaker and volunteer teacher.
Susan earned two master's degrees at Stony Brook University; a Masters of Liberal Studies form in 1974 and a Masters of Social Work in 1983.
Anderson qualified for a Masters in Clinical Social Work (LCSW) from the National Association of Social Workers in 1993. In 1997, she earned an Addictions Specialist Certificate and was Certified as a Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC). Anderson was interviewed on The Early Show (CBS) on February 14, 2007. She was also interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR) Inner Visions “Overcoming Self Sabotage and Healing Abandonment” June 23, 2015.
Susan is a prominent author and psychotherapist who has devoted more than 30 years of clinical experience and research to helping people overcome abandonment trauma and its aftermath of self sabotaging patterns. Founder of the abandonment recovery movement, she reaches out through her websites, workshops, and media to share her methods of abandonment recovery with abandonment survivors from around the world. Anderson is author of four trailblazing books including Journey from Abandonment to Healing and Taming Your Outer Child which guide people through a protocol specific to healing abandonment, heartbreak, and loss.
(Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery is...)
(The fear of abandonment is one of our most primal fears, ...)
(Like Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death ...)
In her books, Anderson contends that the grief of being spurned in a romantic relationship can create a trauma powerful enough to implant an emotional drain deep within the self that if left unresolved, leeches self esteem and creates self sabotage. She refers to this as abandonment trauma. Anderson uses / adapts the five phases of grief in the Kübler-Ross model to abandonment.
Her framework describing abandonment recovery breaks it down into five phases: Shattering, Withdrawal, Internalizing, Rage and Lifting (SWIRL). The acronym is designed to depict the cyclonic nature of the grief. While Kübler-Ross, Anderson, and others have attempted to define discrete stages of grief, such as an initial period of numbness leading to depression and finally to reorganization and recovery, most modern grief specialists recognize the variations and fluidity of grief experiences, that differ considerably in intensity and length among cultural groups and from person to person.
No grief stage theory has been able to account for how people cope with loss, why they experience varying degrees and types of distress at different times, and how or when they adjust to a life without their loved one over time.
Susan is a member of International Women’s Writers Guild, National Organization of Social Workers, Association for Substance Abuse Prevention IRE, National Organization for Women and New York State Association of Teachers.
Susan is fond of travelling.
Susan has two children, Adam and Erika.
