by Anne Hovell Dew

BOOK DESCRIPTION: As a committed Christian and licensed psychotherapist, Anne Dew has assembled a process that defines the emotional issues that keep a person from reaching personal and spiritual wholeness. Awareness is developed with a family systems approach. The basic premises are: 'All issues are in the family of origin,' 'All relationships are family reunions,' and 'We marry in order to work out our family-of-origin issues.' The burden of proof is then presented through paper and pen work, using a genogram (similar to a genealogy chart) to graphically display the generational emotional issues. Helping the reader to become aware is the substance of the first half of the book, which is presented for the secular reader. The second half of the twelve chapters presents suggested Christian spiritual solutions to these issues that keep people stuck and reenacting. As a result of putting these different approaches together, the author has seen emotional transformation at a deep level.