Growing Beyond Your Family of Origin Experience - Paperback

by John C. Pulver (Author)

• You deal with all kinds of feelings in many situations and if you have ever wondered where these feelings have come from, this book will give you some answers.
• Do your thoughts about yourself and others hold you back, and are you sometimes surprised by what you carry around in your head? Here you will examine those thoughts and assess which ones you want to rid yourself of, and which will help you live with yourself and others more easily.
• Do you know what positive legacies your parents have given you? Here you will discover just what you can treasure and retain for your own life experience.
• Have you ever acted just like one of your parents and swore you would never do just that? This book will help you unravel the source of how you act so how you really want to express yourself can come forward.
• If you want to experience a stronger family right now, the ingredients to do so are contained in 13 chapters helping you over some of the common hurdles and challenges.

• If you have ever felt stuck or gummed up in achieving what you want in your relationships with others and family, or have wondered just how the positive things that were handed to you now work to enrich your life in specific areas, then reading this book can set you on a path of understanding, growth and satisfaction that will be rewarding and hopeful. In the end, you will understand more about how 118 different family experiences have impacted your life and will go on to build your best personal experience possible!

Author Biography

Dr. John C. Pulver is a Professor of Sociology at the College of Southern Nevada, where he has taught Sociology and Psychology for the past 24 years. John is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor (Nevada) whose previous practice specialized in couples counseling, recovery from addictions and abuse, and issues stemming from earlier family experiences. Informing his writing is the fact that he has experienced every type of family structure himself, except for adoption or foster care, and has decades of experience assisting others in coming to understand what has created the tapestry of their current lives.