Nancy Richards, Healing from Child Abuse and Family Estrangement Author
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Welcome!
Whether you are fed up with hearing that you have to forgive, or you are ready to consider forgiveness "Heal and Forgive" will empower you!
"Heal and Forgive" is a personal journey based on the premise that healing first and experiencing some sense of justice is the basis for authentic forgiveness.
"Heal and Forgive II" offers a a realistic, and compassionate blueprint for coping with family estrangement and reconciliation.
Heal and Forgive II Video
Family Estrangment Polls
If you are dealing with a family estrangement, please drop by and vote on my poll. Or, if you know someone dealing with family estrangement, please send them by to vote as well.
Thanks for your input!
- Reasons for Family Estrangement Polls
- Many people who are estranged from family members are often left to wonder, "What happened?"
Please share your voice!
Thanks!
My Website, Blog, and Audio Interview
Want to learn more about me? Here's where you'll find me!
- My Blog
- My blog - where I share my views and experiences on recovering from childhood abuse, family estrangement, premature forgiveness, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
- My Author Site
- My official website. It includes a bio, a full list of all my published books, and more.
- Radio Interview
- My January 24, 2008 interview on "A Fresh Start With Sallie Felton." To listen, download the 1/24/08 interview with Nancy Richards.
Family Estrangement Websites
- H.E.R. Healing Estranged Relationships
- For women who are experiencing an estranged relationship from an adult child.
- Estranged Parents - Adult Children
- For parents estranged from Adult Children.
- Estrangements
- Covering multiple aspects of family estrangement.
- Family Intervention
- Specializing in family reconciliation, family estrangement and making amends.
- Family Wanted
- For individuals and families affected by estrangement or other relationship loss by finding new familial connections.
- Mark Sichel
- Author Mark Sichel.
- Dr. Joshua Coleman
- Author Dr. Joshua Coleman
- Support 4 Change
- Relationship website.
- Healing from Family Rifts Yahoo Support Group
- For anyone dealing with a Family Rift - Membership required to read or post messages.
- Motherless3 Yahoo Support Group
- For Motherless Daughters who have lost their mother due to Rejection, Abandonment, or Estrangement. Membership required to read or post messages.
- Garden Web Parents Forum
- Public Message board with threads on family estrangement.
- Dr. Joshua Coleman's Public Blog
- Includes a comment section for parents to discuss their estrangements.
- Estranged Stories - Support Group
- For anyone dealing with a Family Rift - Membership required to read or post messages.
Child Abuse Resources
- The Official Website of Andrew Vachss
- From The Zero - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss: A searchable database of agencies, and organizations dealing with the issues of child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, animal welfare, mental health, health care, juvenile justice, human trafficking and more.....
The National Association to Protect Children
- Protect
- The National Association to Protect Children is a membership association dedicated to providing political strength and leadership to create tougher laws for the protection of abused children.
Books Dealing with Family Estrangement
Making Peace with Your Parents by Harold Md Bloomfield, Leonard Phd Felder
"No one book resolves a lifetime of hurts and more...0 points
Heal and Forgive II: The Journey from Abuse and Estrangement to Reconciliation by Nancy Richards
Heal and Forgive II The Journey from Abuse and Est more...0 points
FRAGMENTED FAMILIES: Patterns of Estrangement and Reconciliation by Ellen Sucov
The purpose of the book Fragmented Families is to more...0 points
Recovery Books
In my constant search for answers to my mixed emotions and remedies for my charred feelings, I read many books that helped shape my recovery. This is a list of some of the books that aided me during the twenty year span of my ever changing recovery.
Making Peace with Your Parents by Harold Md Bloomfield, Leonard Phd Felder
"No one book resolves a lifetime of hurts and more...0 points
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner
"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to," more...0 points
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth by Alice Miller
The culture that ignores roots of hatred and tyran more...0 points
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Susan Forward, Craig Buck
Are you the child of toxic parents?When you were a more...0 points
Divorcing a Parent: Free Yourself from the Past and Live the Life You've Always Wanted by Beverly Mfcc Engel
Do you come away from contact with your parent with more...0 points
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move Beyond Your Past to Create an Abuse-Free Future by Beverly Engel
"A beacon of hope for women and men who fear that more...0 points
Healing From Family Rifts : Ten Steps to Finding Peace After Being Cut Off From a Family Member by Mark Sichel
Ten steps to surviving a family rift, finding peace, more...0 points
Another Chance to Get It Right (3rd Edition) by Andrew Vachss
When Another Chance to Get it Right debuted on The more...0 points
Heal and Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse
Excerpt: The Foreword (by Marie M. Fortune)
Richards tells her story and unravels the process of healing that can lead to forgiveness. Along the way she breaks the silence of her family and is determined to tell the truth about her childhood. In spite of the denial by other family members, she is heard, believed and acknowledged by others in her life. She goes through the anger and grief of coming to terms with her childhood. She resists the temptation to "forgive and forget" because she knows it would only heal the wound lightly, saying "peace, peace," when there is no peace (Jeremiah 6:14 ). She puts her energy into protecting and caring for herself and in raising her children in a healthy, nurturing environment. All of this contributes to her healing; all of this is part of experiencing justice. All of this is what finally frees her to forgive and get on with her life.
She chose the path of healing and it took her to forgiveness. Forgiveness is not an obligation on the part of someone who has been harmed. It is not a solo act but rather takes place in community where we can find some sense of justice. It is not saying magic words and hoping that healing will come from that. It is hard work for the individual. It is God's grace carrying us the whole way. It is possible but never easy. This story is a testament to the possibility of healing and forgiveness. No cheap grace here. No pretense of keeping family secrets and denial. Just hard work and a great reward.
Rev. Marie M. Fortune
FaithTrust Institute, Seattle
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Heal and Forgive II: The Journey from Abuse and Estrangement to Reconciliation
Anyone who has heard the devastating words, "I never want to see you again!" from a parent, sibling, or child, knows the torment of family exile.All one needs to do is search the web for sites dealing with family estrangement to find endless choices for the countless individuals seeking help with family cut-off's. Google lists 776,000. Yahoo lists 890,000! Although there are no formal statistics for family estrangement, the numbers available are alarming. From celebrities, to friends, co-workers, and neighbors we find people everywhere dealing with the effects of family rifts.
After a painful fourteen-year estrangement, author Nancy Richards and her family reunited. Heal and Forgive II: The Journey from Abuse and Estrangement to Reconciliation, presents a first-hand description of the long journey towards healing and offers a blueprint for coming to terms with the past.
Reconciliations can bring joy, excitement and a sense of awe like that of a miracle. At the same time, reunions can be frightening, stressful, fragile, and wrought with many pitfalls. Rebuilding relationships requires a great deal of emotional work and a willingness for each family member involved.
Often, re-establishing relationships with family members can appear to be an impossible task. Indeed, reuniting is not possible for everyone. Some individuals experience continued physical and emotional violence within their families to a degree that prohibits any safe contact. Other estranged individuals may desire a reunion only to find family members unwilling to see them. Yet, sometimes people are surprised when the road to healing and recovery leads to new beginnings.
Whether re-establishing a relationship with a family member or remaining apart, healing is vital for the individual's happiness and well-being. This work demonstrates to the reader the healing process necessary to make peace with the past, healing in a fashion that maintains wholesome separateness with or without rebuilding new relationships.
This thought provoking work effectively diagrams the healing and reconciliation process while placing the reader's well-being firmly in his or her own hands.
Healing from Abuse Lenses
- Circle of Healing
- A Circle of Healing, is when someone will read or speak to someone else who has experienced a similar situation as you. In the sharing of these stories, it enables another person to perhaps see a way that may help in their own healing journey. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen this work.I
- Overcoming Emotional Suffering
- Do you suffer from negative thoughts, feelings, or behavior? I write about how to overcome all of this stuff. Just check it out.
- Suggestions for Helping Domestic Violence Victims
- Here are some Suggestions to help those you Love and are close to who are going through Domestic Violence.
- Recognizing and breaking the Cycle of Abuse
- Although professionals may disagree on the titles and exactly what each phase looks like, the Cycle of Abuse remains largely the same ...the main components being calm, tension, explosion and reconciliation ...with a pattern that often starts out with longer periods of calm, and escalates toward lon
- Predestination - Walk In Your Destiny
- Part 1: A very personal walk from survivor to conqueror. Have you ever been called a survivor? Did you know that there is a 'survivor syndrome', I will call it, that keeps us blocked from moving forward after a crisis? This lens is about moving past being a survivor, striving for our good, and movin
- Family-Constellation-Therapy
- In Family Constellation theory, psychological states, feelings, and illness are often seen as disturbances in the individual's family system. During the process volunteers are asked to "represent" individuals from a family system. Often these representative do not know beforehand who they are representing in the family, yet they manifest them often in great detail and help to reveal what is hidden.
- Victim/Survivor/Thriver
- Helping those in abusive situations
Heal and Forgive Blog
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AnneVis
Feb 22, 2011 @ 3:25 am | delete
- Great lens, thanks for sharing the information!
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BelindaBlevins Nov 7, 2010 @ 7:40 am | delete
- This is great information. Thanks
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healandforgive Jan 12, 2009 @ 5:00 pm | in reply to BarryKrost | delete
- Thanks! And many blessings to you!
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BarryKrost Jan 12, 2009 @ 4:45 pm | delete
- I very much want to read Heal and Forgive. It wonderful that you share such an important message with the world. Thanks for the great resources on this Lens. A definite Favorite and ***** Blessings to you.
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eccles1
Sep 16, 2008 @ 1:59 am | delete
- I think you are right it starts with forgiving
yourself and then forgiveness is easy keep up the good work !
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