Five days a week, seven-year-old Holly awakens promptly at six. She
ensures that her five-year-old sister is washed, fed and dressed,
and then she prepares breakfast for her single mother. With
military precision and a gut-wrenching sense of responsibility
beyond her years, Holly follows a strict regimen in an attempt to
avoid the wrath of her abusive mother. She never knows whether she
will encounter "nice mommy or mean mommy," and only when she and
her sister are safely at school does she begin to breathe
easily.
Holly's story is one of many that Dr. Anthony J. Castro relates in
this unique approach to sharing psychological insights and offering
guidelines for making difficult changes to tackle problems that
threaten our well-being. The theme of this insightful book is
"giving room." Weaving a tapestry of vignettes from patients'
intimate lives with excerpts from scientific studies and examples
from his own life, Dr. Castro demonstrates how all of us must learn
to give ourselves room to enter into the unknown and endure change.
Though change is often very hard, Dr. Castro shows through the
experiences of his patients that by giving room to ourselves we
unleash the potential for immense personal growth.
Some of his patients need to assert independence from their
parents; others must learn to develop a mutually respectful
marriage or to become wise parents. In all cases, Dr. Castro
underscores that only by making room for our own needs can we then
reach out to others to create healthy relationships. With a gift
for interlacing important insights with engrossing real-life
stories to illustrate salient points about growth and change, Dr.
Castro offers an enlightening, jargon-free narrative that will
encourage readers of all ages to take the time to create the
happiness they deserve.
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