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The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family

Karen Casey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Mango Media

Published:10th Sep '24

£16.99

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  • Karen Casey's books have sold over 8 million copies
  • She has hired a top level spirituality publicist who is pitching her to Publisher’s Weekly, Shelf Awareness, etc.
  • She will be doing a series of podcasts and local and national radio, including NPR. 
  • Karen Casey has a very large following and readership in the recovery market
  • Casey worked closely with Hazelden, the world-renowned center in Minnesota, garnering her very high trust level with readers
  • She is a popular public and keynote speaker where she talks about recovery and facilitation
  • She runs the Women-Spirituality website/blog with a large following, which also provides information to Karen Casey’s workshops and conferences
  • She will host virtual events and continuing her highly popular recovery meetings.

Bestselling author Karen Casey shares the incredible stories of survivors living and leaving their abusive households transformed them foreverEmpowering Wisdom for Surviving a Dysfunctional Family

Bestselling author Karen Casey shares the incredible stories of survivors living and leaving their abusive households transformed them forever

Thriving against all odds. Toxic families can be the most difficult things anyone can live through. So many people experience bleak childhoods where degradation, pain, and neglect were common. But as a survivor, their triumphs are not only powerful, but also inspirational. The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family follows twenty-four stories about finding happiness after surviving a dysfunctional family. Featuring enlightening honesty, humor, and famous quotes to connect with, you’ll experience the transformative effects that hope and resilience can have for anyone going through difficult moments.

Celebrate the person you’ve become. Thriving means more than just letting go of the past and its hardships; it means becoming your own silver lining. Karen Casey and our narrators explore how your worst experiences can help you create meaningful skills to help you create a new, fulfilling life. With each narrator sharing the moment they decided to thrive instead of giving up, this self-compassion book will show you that no matter how dysfunctional life can be, you can emerge stronger than ever from it.

Inside, each chapter explores a transformative lesson, such as:

  • Promises and positive affirmations to live
  • The importance of nourishing your emotional strength
  • Beginning your healing journey by putting your heart first
  • Forgiving your family’s pain to avoid repeating it

If you enjoy self-help books such as Codependent No More, Change Your Brain Every Day, or You Are Not Your Mother, you’ll love The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family.

“What Karen found in Alcoholics Anonymous, and I found in the Course, was a path to God that wasn’t waylaid by religious dogma.”
—Marianne Williamson, NYT bestselling author of A Return to Love

“Casey’s voice is thoughtful and accessible. Readers with a belief in the power of God will be most amenable to her recommendations for a simpler, more rewarding life.”
Publishers Weekly

“Karen Casey is a wise woman, writing more than twenty books based on her own experiences, including her long-time spiritual practices with the 12-steps and A Course in Miracles. Her writing and her speaking have affected millions of lives.”
—Jan Johnson, publisher emerita, Conari Press

“Karen Casey teaches us how to row our boat (note: not other people’s boats) gently down the stream. When we row gently, we don’t yell who or what must be on the bank around the bend. We peacefully accept what comes and this makes us very merry.”
—Hugh Prather, author of Morning Notes and The Little Book of Letting Go

“You just can’t go wrong with Karen Casey.”
—Earnie Larsen, author of Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction and From Anger to Forgiveness

“Karen Casey outlines the continuing process of practicing detachment, which ultimately means dealing with our control issues and fear. Her honesty about detachment as a lifelong process brings comfort and encouragement. And by her use of many stories about how other people―men and women alike―are finding the peace that detachment brings and her wonderful way of illuminating what detaching is and isn’t, readers will discover how to connect with their inherent powers. Thanks Karen, for writing this book and for a lifetime of dedicated service that has made this world a better place.”
―Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

“A remarkable book written in easy-to-understand language with great honesty.”
―Jerry Jampolsky, MD, founder of the International Center for Attitudinal Healing

“I grew up thinking that, as an infant, I must have gotten mixed up in the hospital and sent home with the wrong family. These people could not possibly be my real parents! Eventually, I came to accept the reality of my topsy turvy homelife and that there are indeed gifts from growing up this way. I am so grateful to have read this book, which is like a silver-linings playbook for adult children. Karen Casey's appealingly honest and very wise book can be a guide to helping you discover *the good stuff.*”
―Becca Anderson, author of Badass Affirmations

ISBN: 9781684811816

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages