Dear Abandonmates and Recovering Outer Children,

We are here to help you set up and or join Abandonment and Outer Child Recovery groups. And you've been helping each other heal your collective abandonment wounds and overcome your Outer Child patterns of self-sabotage.

Creating abandonment recovery groups is as easy as following a recipe. Groups can be facilitated on a peer-to-peer basis. An easy-to-follow self-help format and 50 topic questions are available - enough to keep your support groups running for a year or more. Become a member to download materials - as well as to Post your Groups. Membership also entitles you to download WORKBOOK "Journey from Heartbreak to Connection" which guides you through hands-on exercises -- Outer Child, Akeru, 12 steps of emotional and spiritual healing, S.W.I.R.L., and more.

MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: log in to download protocol for running professional groups (25 Professional Recipes) and to Post your Services. Also go to Professional Page and learn about training as abandonment specialist (inclusive of Outer Child techniques).

Abandonment and Outer Child groups, whether run by peers or professionals, promote positive peer pressure, inspire insight, raise self-esteem, overcome your Outer Child patterns of self-sabotage, and create new behaviors that reconnect you to love and life.

Go to find a group to see if abandonment groups exist in your area.

To post your newly forming groups or to make requests to join a group, Become a member. All visitors to this site can view these postings; whereas only members can post.

ABANDOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: The most effective way we know of to break the cycle of abandoholism - one of Outer Child's most infamous patterns - as well as other destructive-to-relationship patterns, is through abandonment groups. If you think you're the only one caught up in cycles of abandonment, think again. Learning to become attracted to available partners is an enormous feat for many abandonment survivors. These groups get you moving in a new direction.

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AUTHOR'S VISITS Invite the author to come and give workshops and seminars and give onsite training . Susan Anderson handles each request individually.

Abandonment and Outer Child support groups allow people to reinforce and enhance each other's recovery. People need support to overcome abandonment wounds past and present and develop healthy new love-fulfilling behaviors. And they need motivation to take action to change their lives. Sharing common experience can do that -put positive peer pressure to work. Coming together, abandonment survivors share their progress with the many challenges they encounter, as well as with Outer Child techniques, the SWIRL process, the Swan's Twelve Steps of Emotional and Spiritual Healing, and the Akeru exercise program. The group provides emotional support and an opportunity to make new connections, make important breakthroughs, raise self-confidence, and make significant changes - not just internally, but in your behavior patterns!